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Auslander: One Family’s Story of Escape and Exile ...

Michael Moritz

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A memoir-of-sorts of her beloved house in Campden Hill Square, home to Fraser since 1957, to Harold Pinter, to her children, and to animals - feline, canine and literary.

The House that Spoke: The History of a Home

Antonia Fraser

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Gaskill knew that his uncle had been a POW in Italy, and had cut his way out of a train with a knife and fork. A chance conversation leads him to discover that his uncle's story was both m... read more

The Glass Mountain

Malcolm Gaskill

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By the present (4th) Earl of Iveagh.

Guinness: A Family Succession: The True Story of the Struggle to Creat ...

Arthur Edward Guinness

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'Me', in case you're wondering, is a cartoonist from California. And yes, this really is a graphic biography of the sisters - and it's sparkling with wit and energy. Delicious.

Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me

Mimi Pond

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Looks at the dynamics of corrosive secrets that women have been obliged to keep, how they fit into a broader social context and how exposing them has been a release for many. Her own family ... read more

The Book of Revelations: Women and Their Secrets From the 1950s to the ...

Juliet Nicolson

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Holland has written previous good books about his grandfather. In this new magnum opus, he considers not the life but the extraordinary array of legends, mysteries and industries that ensure... read more

After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal

Merlin Holland

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Ypi follows her prize-winning memoir of growing up in Hoxha's Albania - Free: Coming of Age at the End of History - with an investigation of her aristocratic Ottoman grandmother, filling in... read more

Indignity: A Life Reimagined

Lea Ypi

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A sprawling, magnificent love story in which the protagonists have to navigate their families, nations and pervasive cultural complexities. This is Desai's first novel since The Inheritance ... read more

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

Kiran Desai

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Maine 1919: a return to the world of his bestselling classic The Cider House Rules. Esther, a Jewish orphan, is adopted by the Winslow family. The novel follows her life as she retraces her ... read more

Queen Esther

John Irving

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First edition, first printing in fine condition, almost as new, with a fine dust jacket.

Madresfield: The Real Brideshead

Jane Mulvagh

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The wounds of repeated leavings and accumulating loss. Sliding between generations, this memoir is an intimate, lyrical and compelling portrait of the lives altered by emigration, exile and ... read more

Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional Wars ...

Peter Godwin

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This remarkable, devastating unpicking of the past is told through four generations of family upheaval.

The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir

Victoria Belim

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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 the Promised Land ...

Rachel Cockerell

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The post-war eclipse of the rural by the urban. Joyce interweaves his own Irish family history into wider story of European peasantry to create a rich and varied cultural account of what it ... read more

Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World ...

Patrick Joyce

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The rise and fall of the Bacris and Busnachs, two Jewish families whose prominence in trade and banking led them to play a small but crucial diplomatic and logistical role in the Napoleonic ... read more

The Kings of Algiers: How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean ...

Julie Kalman

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De Beauvoir's short memoir of her mother's death.

A Very Easy Death

Simone de Beauvoir

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Brought up in Germany as a good National Socialist, KF was repatriated with her half-English mother to England. A poignant account of the C20th political buffetings navigated by three genera... read more

True to Both My Selves

Katrin FitzHerbert

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A memoir by the half-Italian, half-Latvian writer about returning to Riga, to her childhood there and to her murdered Jewish father, told through the careful piecing-together of memory, docu... read more

Return To Latvia

Marina Jarre

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The remarkable story of the author's Jewish grandmother, whose bestselling Viennese cookbook was expropriated by the Nazis after the Anschluss in 1938 and republished for decades under a fal... read more

Alice’s Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother’s Cookboo ...

Karina Urbach

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The author's Jewish father reached England from Latvia in 1939, only to be shipped to Canada as an enemy alien; his parents were deported from Bavaria to the Riga Ghetto, where they died. In... read more

The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution ...

Peter Bradley

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A Crimean War hero's divorce & remarriage causes two lines of descendants, who meet up again one summer in Devon in the 1970s. Ructions ensue. Shrewdly observed and compelling.

Bad Relations

Cressida Connolly

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MS is an outstanding literary voice in contemporary Russia: here she creates a portrait of three Russian-Jewish generations sifted from the detritus in a late aunt's flat. This book is diff... read more

In Memory of Memory

Maria Stepanova

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As a young man in Germany, AW's grandfather published Kafka and several other depraved authors whose work the Nazis were keen to burn. He fled in 1933, eventually settling in New York where ... read more

Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home ...

Alexander Wolff

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A memoir of his double career in the family firm and in Parliament.

Among the Supporting Cast: Reminiscences and Reflections on Three Care ...

Tim Sainsbury

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A panoramic account by the distinguished Harvard historian of five generations of a French provincial family originally from Angouleme, crammed with stories and archival research. ER has a d... read more

An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centur ...

Emma Rothschild

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SM's parents were German Jewish refugees; he was raised a Catholic and forbidden to identify as Jewish or German or British. His maternal aunts concealed their origins too and had very diffe... read more

How to Be a Refugee: One Family’s Story of Exile and Belonging ...

Simon May

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The fascinating story of a language known as 'Rotwelsch', associated with vagabonds - linked to Yiddish and Romani - that the author learned from his father and uncle. His grandfather, a Naz... read more

The Language of Thieves: The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family’s ...

Martin Puchner

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From the author of the biography of Shchukin comes the story of another extraordinary pre-Revolutionary Russian collector of European art. He spent 1.5 million francs on 486 paintings, which... read more

Morozov: The Story of a Family and a Lost Collection ...

Natalya Semenova

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The contents of a shoebox in America led the author to discover her grandmmother's family, from Picasso in Paris, Dior and Chagall to a farmhouse in the Auvergne, Auschwitz and Long Island. ... read more

House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish fa ...

Hadley Freeman

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