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BIOGRAPHY, LETTERS & DIARIES

Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay

Jeff Young

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This fascinating account of a forgotten moment in history is part family memoir, part the telling of a Texan offshoot of the early Zionist movement, when 10,000 Jews set sail for Galveston b... read more

Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land ...

Rachel Cockerell

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The fabulous singer who spied for the French Resistance, adopted twelve children, marched with Martin Luther King, was awarded the Croix de Guerre and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'h... read more

Fearless and Free: A Memoir

Josephine Baker

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Mme du Châtelet proposed intellectual autonomy over the cult of philosophical disciples enjoyed by Voltaire and Kant. She also believed that women should "share in all the rights of humanit... read more

The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman: Emilie du Chatelet and ...

Andrew Janiak

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Married respectively to Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, these two young, beautiful, dynamic empresses were involved in most of the major aspects of their times. Looking at them in parallel - ... read more

The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugenie of France, Power ...

Nancy Goldstone

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The first autobiography by a Pope.

Hope: The Autobiography

Pope Francis

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A sprightly book of twenty-three vignettes, just a couple of pages each... reminiscences from the great Dame's life. Privately published in a small, smart hardback.

Patchwork Pieces

Antonia Fraser

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Anyone who read Christopher de Hamel's last book, or Alexandra Lapierre's novel Belle Greene, will know that the letters from Pierpont Morgan's mixed-race librarian/buyer to Berenson will be... read more

Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Lett ...

Deborah Parker

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This deeply researched account sets the collection of fairy tales in the context of the brothers' wider endeavour to create a national German cultural identity.

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography

Ann Schmiesing

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Sociable, intriguing and entertaining: Princess Juliane-Henriette-Ulrike of Saxe-Coburg escaped her early, abusive marriage to the Grand Duke Konstantin to live in Germany and Switzerland. H... read more

The Rebel Romanov

Helen Rappaport

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A harrowing reconstruction of the author's escape, aged 15, from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Nuns and aid workers helped her to escape hidden in a truck; her safe deliver... read more

The Convoy

Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

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RB is the ne plus ultra of Habsburg chroniclers. Readers will recall his bestselling memoir Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89. Here is a biography of exemplary ele... read more

Maria Theresa: Empress: The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment ...

Richard Bassett

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A re-issue of McCarthy's brilliant memoir - so painful and unjust that Anita Brookner held that Jane Eyre had got away lightly in comparison. First published in 1957.

Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood

Mary McCarthy

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Besides the great importance of his Pens?es for Christians and philosophers, by the time of his death at 39 Pascal had also achieved major advances in mathematics and probability theory... e... read more

Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World

Graham Tomlin

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The Renaissance polymath Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, who spent his life in pursuit of a grand unified theory of the Sublime while navigating the period's political shenanigans. A new book... read more

The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language ...

Edward Wilson-Lee

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As a young man, Russell formed the practice of writing, on their death, a sketch of a person who had meant a great deal to him. The earliest dates to 1970 (Prof Finch), the most recent to 20... read more

Twenty-Four Partial Portraits

Francis Russell

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The second part of de Bellaigue's enthralling trilogy about Suleyman the Magnificent, following on from The Lion House which covered his rise. Here he is at his zenith, and considering his ... read more

The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King

Christopher de Bellaigue

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The author's uncle is the subject here, a working-class man whose interior life was a mystery to those around him until he shared a vast cache of paintings with his family. Full of humanity ... read more

The Secret Painter

Joe Tucker

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The publisher's blurb informs us that EW is 'at the apex of the gay canon'. What could they mean?

The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir

Edmund White

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The parallel paths of Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke and Edward Hyde (later Lord Clarendon). Friends in youth indeed, they found themselves on opposing sides in the Civil War. Dinshaw has a C17th ... read more

Friends in Youth: Choosing Sides in the English Civil War ...

Minoo Dinshaw

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One of the great untold stories of the Holocaust and the Cold War.

The Prosecutor: One Man’s Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice ...

Jack Fairweather

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The Hohenzollerns' distaste for the Weimar Republic (which ousted them) led to close personal alliances with the Nazis, which in turn encouraged many of their supporters to do likewise.

The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: A History of Collaboration ...

Stephan Malinowski

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No doubt there will be humour at the expense of the Tory MPs who fell by the wayside for several mortal sins (mostly greed but also the ill-advised coveting of thy neighbour's tractor in the... read more

Ungovernable: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip ...

Simon Hart

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This American professor of philosophy is a powerful advocate of the life of the mind - and of how to change it.

Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life

Agnes Callard

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A handsome illustrated volume that looks at the relations Frick and his daughter had with European dealers and also with their decorators (such as Elsie de Wolfe).

The Fricks Collect: An American Family and the Evolution of Taste Duri ...

Ian Wardropper

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In this philosophical, discursive, many-layered diary, the author wanders the coastal city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu.

Intertidal: The Hidden World Between Land and Sea

Yuvan Aves

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If you enjoy books that make you laugh aloud, this darkly humorous, touching and brilliantly original explication of a deeply pessimistic worldview might be your thing. The author attributes... read more

FEH: A Memoir

Shalom Auslander

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From the emergence of tyranny to the malaise of ennui, LS surveys how Hannah Arendt's life and work can help us confront the perils of contemporary post-truth politics.

We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love ...

Lyndsey Stonebridge

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The Odd Woman and the City

Vivian Gornick

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Responsive, exuberant, thoughtful, the poet's voice shines through 50 years of correspondence.

The Letters of Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

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A biography of the extraordinary Felix Kersten, a Finnish masseur who was co-opted by Himmler as his physician and used his position to save (it is estimated) 100,000 lives.

Kersten’s Lists: A Saviour in the Depths of Hell ...

FranÃƒÂ§ois Kersaudy

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Fleming's own ideal of the 'complete man' is the source for the subtitle. NS has left no stone unturned in pursuit of a 'complete' portrait in writing this immense and engaging biography.

Ian Fleming: The Complete Man

Nicholas Shakespeare

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Henry III: Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement, 1258-1272 ...

David Carpenter

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Cavendish - the Duchess of Newcastle - was attached to the exiled court of Henrietta Maria when she published her amazing proto-sci-fi novel, The Blazing World. A clever and subtle debut bio... read more

Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish ...

Francesca Peacock

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Vivid and authoritative, this excellent book shows the continuing significance of the greatest Byzantine emperor.

Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

Professor Peter Sarris

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It is nearly thirty years since Aciman's superb memoir of his Alexandrian childhood, Out of Egypt. Since Call Me By Your Name, he has mutated from an academic scholar of Proust into a bestse... read more

My Roman Year

André Aciman

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