Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics
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Born into folk music's first family, Peggy Seeger has blazed her own trail artistically and...
Radio Astronomer: John Bolton and a New Window on the Universe
Peter Robertson, Ron Ekers and Ken Kellerman
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The leading Australian astronomer of his generation, John Bolton (1922-93), was born in Sheffield...
Robert the Bruce: King of the Scots
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Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) famously defeated the English at Bannockburn and became the hero king...
Roland Hayes: The Legacy of an American Tenor
Christopher Antonio Brooks, Robert Sims, Simon Estes and George Shirley
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Performing in a country rife with racism and segregation, the tenor Roland Hayes was the first...
Sabine Baring-Gould: The Life and Work of a Complete Victorian
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Sabine Baring-Gould was one of the most remarkable Englishmen of the Victorian Age. Born as the heir...
Stanley Melbourne Bruce: Australian Internationalist
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Stanley Melbourne Bruce was at the centre of Imperial politics for more than two decades from the...
Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning
Elizabeth Sigmund and Gail Crowther
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Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning is part memoir, part biography focusing on the fifteen...
Terence Rattigan: The Man and His Work
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'Rattigan's work is a sustained assault on English Middle-Class Values: fear of Emotional...
The Argonauts
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An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family ...
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The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor
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He s the sort of actor who can do "Hamlet" and "Charlie s Angels" in the same year. He shuns...