
Salinger
David Shields and Shane Salerno
Book
Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people-and...

The Great Escaper: The Life and Death of Roger Bushell - Love, Betrayal, Big x and the Great Escape
Book
Roger Bushell was 'Big X', mastermind of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944,...

Charles Williams: The Third Inkling
Book
This is the first full biography of Charles Williams (1886-1945), an extraordinary and controversial...

Jane Austen: pocket GIANTS
Book
There's something about Jane...Jane Austen lived only just into her forties, never married, never...

In the Days of Rain
Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD In the vein of Bad Blood and Why be Happy when you...
biography religion

Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain
Book
The enthralling Sunday Times-bestselling biography of the shepherd boy who changed the world with...
George Szell: A Life of Music
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This book is the first full biography of George Szell, one of the greatest orchestra and opera...

Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
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This brilliant group biography asks who were the Frankfurt School and why they matter today In 1923,...

Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman
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'An extraordinary book ... exceptionally fascinating, always readable and penetratingly intelligent'...
Biography

Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
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Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin--the first major biography in English...
history politics