A Lie About My Father by John Burnside
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Saddam: The Secret Life by Con Coughlin
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The true story behind one of the most brutal, tyrannical and dictatorial leaders of modern times. Since becoming President of Iraq in 1979, Saddam Hussein has systematically terrorised a nation, yet little is really known of the inner circle of his regime. In Saddam, Con Coughlin takes us right to the h ...Show more
Jane Austen - Her Life by Park Honan
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Phoenix Giants | Reading Level: very good
If you've listened to Pride and Prejudice or read Emma, you've probably wondered where a modest 18th-century Englishwoman found the inspiration to create such stunning works of fiction. Here, at last, is the answer. Drawing on a wealth of fascinating new materials-including letters and manuscripts kept ...Show more
Bearing the Cross - Martin Luther King, Jr and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow
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The Mitfords : Letters Between Six Sisters by Charlotte Mosley (ed.)
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The never-before published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a charismatic history of the century's signal events played out in the lives of a controversial and uniquely gifted family. Nancy, the scalding wit who parlayed her family life into bestse ...Show more
Joseph Anton : A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
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On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being 'against ...Show more
Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer
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Little is known about the wife of the world's most famous playwright, but much is said about her. Ann Hathaway has been mocked and vilified by scholars for centuries. The glaring omission of her name from Shakespeare's will has been gleefully used by many as evidence that she was nothing more than an ug ...Show more
An Australian Son by Gordon Matthews
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Autobiography of Gordon Matthews. Adopted at birth, he grew up in the 1950s in middle class Kew. Through a series of circumstances Matthews came to believe he was of Aboriginal descent. Passionately, he formally embraced this identity and acquired a profile in the diplomatic service. He became a spokesm ...Show more
A Woman in Charge : The Life of Hilary Rodham Clinton by Carl Bernstein
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Carl Bernstein's stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career with its zigzag bursts of risks taken and safety sought. Marshaling all the skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer Prize reporting on Watergate, Be ...Show more
Son and Lover : The Young D H Lawrence by PHILIP CALLOW
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