A Very Dangerous Woman:: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia's Most Seductive Spy
Jeremy Dronfield and Deborah McDonald
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Spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century's greatest writers, the...
Allen Ginsberg
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In this new critical biography of Allen Ginsberg, Steve Finbow re-examines the life, poetry and...
Alone: The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry
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Winner of the Outstanding Sports Writing Award, Cross British Sports Book Awards 2015 Shortlisted...
Bearing Witness: The Remarkable Life of Charles Bean, Australia's Greatest War Correspondent
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'Peter Rees has done what no one else has managed: read the vast Bean archive and get inside the...
Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc: Between Surveillance and Life Writing
Valentina Glajar, Alison Lewis and Corina L. Petrescu
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The communist secret police services of Central and Eastern Europe kept detailed records not only of...
General Percy Kirke and the Later Stuart Army
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General Percy Kirke (c. 1647-91) is remembered in Somerset as a cruel, vicious thug who deluged the...
Geordie Armstrong: On the Wing
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George 'Geordie' Armstrong served Arsenal for 27 years as both a player and a coach, before being...
Gerald Howard-Smith and the 'Lost Generation' of Late Victorian and Edwardian England
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Gerald Howard-Smith's life is intriguing both in its own right and as a vehicle for exploring the...
Hans Richter
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The Austro-Hungarian Hans Richter (1843-1916) was the first career-conductor to gain international...
Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen
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In 1807 genteel, Bermuda-born Fanny Palmer (1789-1814) married Jane Austen's youngest brother,...