Daughter of the Desert - The Remarkable Life of Gertrude Bell by Georgina Howell
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At a time when women were still largely excluded from both education and the workplace, Gertrude Bell was an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer and mountaineer - but until the Iraq War of 2003 few people had heard her name. During the course of her extraordinary life she n ...Show more
Lucrezia Borgia : Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford
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The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton by Kathryn Hughes
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You Cannot Live As I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This : The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson by Terence Blacker
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The life of Willie Donaldson ended in June 2005 when he was found dead in the seedy rented flat in Chelsea where he had lived for 35 years. Willie Donaldson's extraordinary career of writing, drug-taking, brilliance and underachievement put him in the same holy bracket as Peter Cook, Jeffrey Bernard, Pe ...Show more
Foreskin's Lament : A Memoir by Shalom Auslander
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"Foreskin's Lament" reveals Auslander's youth in a strict, socially isolated Orthodox community, and recounts his rebellion and efforts to make a new life apart from it. Auslander remembers his youthful attempt to win the 'blessing bee' (the Orthodox version of a spelling bee), his exile to reform schoo ...Show more
The Three Of Us by JULIA BLACKBURN
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This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic, who for many years was addicted to barbiturates, which would often make him violent. Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious; she treated Julia as her sister, her co ...Show more
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate : Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 by Kai Bird
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER KAI BIRD'S fascinating memoir of his early years spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon provides an original and illuminating perspective into the Arab-Israeli conflict. Weeks before the Suez War of 1956, four-year-old Kai Bird, son of a garrulous, charming Ameri ...Show more
Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd
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Drawing on new material, both published and unpublished, this is a revised edition of a biography of Lytton Strachey which was first published in 1967. It is the story of a complex man and his world which it was felt could not be told while many of his friends and lovers were still alive.
Things I Didn't Know by Robert Hughes
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The opening lengthy chapter is a brutal and briliant description of the terrible WA car accident several years ago that nearly took his life and left him physically and mentally shattered. In this beautifully written and searingly honest opening, that could be a small book in itself, Hughes makes you un ...Show more
Sir John Gorton : He Did it His Way by Ian Hancock
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This text provides an authoritative account of the life of Sir John Gorton - the Prime Minister of Australia from 1968-1971 who is still held in high regard by people across the political spectrum.
THE SUN KING : LOUIS XIV AT VERSAILLES by NANCY MITFORD
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MY EARLY LIFE / MY AFRICAN JOURNEY - LIMITED EDITION by WINSTON CHURCHILL
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