So High a Blood: The Life of Margaret, Countess of Lennox
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'Who hopes still constantly with patience shall obtain victory in their claim' Sometime heir to the...
Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield
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"I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief." (Richard Davenport-Hines, The Spectator). The...
Beryl
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I had a constant battle to get where I am today. Scrimping and scraping, people telling me not to do...
Boy About Town
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'I was no longer fitting in at school. I was unsure of my friends, and they were increasingly unsure...
Captain of the Carpathia: The Seafaring Life of Titanic Hero Sir Arthur Henry Rostron
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Responding to Titanic's distress calls in the early hours of 15 April 1912, Captain Arthur Rostron...
Charles Darwin: pocket GIANTS
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When Darwin announced his theory of evolution by natural selection, he did more than transform...
Connie: The Life of Learie Constantine
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His father was a first-class cricketer, his grandfather was a slave. Born in rural Trinidad in 1901,...
Death and Mr Pickwick
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On 31 March 1836 the publishers Chapman and Hall launched the first issue of a new monthly...
Devilfish: The Life & Times of a Poker Legend
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From prison cell to Las Vegas penthouse, Devilfish: The Life & Times of a Poker Legend is the...
Earl and His Butler in Constantinople: The Secret Diary of an English Servant Among the Ottomans
Nigel R. Webb and Caroline Webb
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George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull, was an unconventional ambassador. A Scottish aristocrat who had...