
The Life and Times of Mary Vaux Walcott
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Known as the Audubon of Botany, Philadelphia Quaker Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) was a...

A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
Jean Mohr, John Berger and Gavin Francis
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In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John...

Alexander Zemlinsky: A Lyric Symphony
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From Zemlinsky's early success as a composer and widely recognized achievements as a conductor to...

Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
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Patricia Highsmith - author of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN and THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY - had more than her...

A Vision of Battlements
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A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born...

Shakespeare's London 1613: Whitehall to Guildhall
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Shakespeare's London 1613 offers for the first time a comprehensive 'biography' of this crucial year...

Orlando
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Orlando is a young Elizabethan nobleman whose wealth and status afford him an extravagant lifestyle....

Paddington' Pollaky, Private Detective: The Mysterious Life and Times of the Real Sherlock Holmes
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'Paddington' Pollaky, Victorian super-sleuth, was a contradiction: a man of mystery who tried to...

Memoir of a Hockey Nobody
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Memoir of a Hockey Nobody is the unlikely true story of an average Canadian kid who grew up playing...
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Who am I, again?
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In his long-awaited autobiography, Sir Lenny Henry tells the extraordinary story of his early years...
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