
The Missing Matisse: A Memoir
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Nazi planes were bombing Paris the day a lifelong, more personal war began for Pierre. It was the...

Taking it on the Chin: Memoirs of a Parliamentary Bruiser
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Surely one of the most colourful characters ever to have graced the Palace of Westminster, Tom...

Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor
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As a small boy in Epping Forest, Jack Straw could never have imagined that one day he would become...

An Inspector Recalls: Memoirs of a Railway Detective
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Born in inner-city Birmingham, from an 'impeccable working class pedigree', Graham Satchwell was...

The Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami
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Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2014 The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high,...

Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir
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As a boy growing up in 1970s Johannesburg Mark Gevisser would play 'Dispatcher', a game that...

Poxy Chicken: Sweet and Sour Memories of Hong Kong's Last Colonial Years
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This book tells the story of expatriate life in the final years of the UK's last Asian colony, and...