CONSUELO AND ALVA : LOVE AND POWER IN THE GILDED AGE by AMANDA MACKENZIE STUART
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Mad World : Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne
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A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England's greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, "Brideshead Revisited". Evelyn Waugh was alread ...Show more
Taken on Trust by Terry Waite
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Terry Waite's personal account of his harrowing experiences as a hostage in Beirut. This book gives a fascinating insight into human life on the edge - the things people are willing to do to each other, and what it feels like to be treated in that way. Terry's endurance in the face of unimaginable suffe ...Show more
HIS EXCELLENCY : GEORGE WASHINGTON by JOSEPH J ELLIS
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Funkytown by Paul Kennedy
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Paul Kennedy's Funkytown is the vivid true story of a year in the life of a teenager leaping into manhood. It is 1993: a serial killer is loose on the streets of Frankston, Victoria. The community is paralysed by fear and a state's police force and national media come to find a killer. Meanwhile, sevent ...Show more
Escape from the Shadows - An Autobiography. by Robin Maugham
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A Lion In The Bedroom by Pat Cavendish O'Neill
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Pat Cavendish O'Neil was born into a world of enormous riches, eccentricity and intrigue. Her mother, Enid Lindeman of the Australian wine family, was a famous beauty who married four times. Two husbands were millionaires, two had titles and none lived long. Somerset Maugham jokingly dubbed his dazzling ...Show more
Wildflower : An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa by Mark Seal
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For readers of the bestselling White Mischief and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil—Vanity Fair contributing editor Mark Seal tells the mesmerizing story of the captivating life and shocking death of world-renowned naturalist Joan Root From her passion for animals to her storybook love affair to h ...Show more
Ernest Hemingway and His World by Anthony Burgess
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An assessment of Hemingway's writing tracing the rapidly changing scene: from the happy childhood to the grim reality of World War I and the vulgar unreality of Word War II; from the Paris of the 20s to the Spain of the Civil War, and from the African safari to the sombre last years in Cuba.With 116 Ill ...Show more