A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal
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Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent,...
A Woman's Work: The Storied Life of Pioneer Esther Morris, the World's First Female Justice of the Peace
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The first-ever biography of a woman we all should know Esther Morris (1812-1902), was a unique...
An Elizabethan Assassin: Theodore Paleologus: Seducer, Spy and Killer
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In this first biography of Theodore Paleologus, new documentary evidence exposes him as a hardened...
Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs Piozzi (Thrale): With Notes and an Introductory Account of Her Life and Writings
Hester Lynch Piozzi and Abraham Hayward
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Highly educated and accustomed to intellectual society, the writer Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821)...
Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art
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Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art is the tragic story of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, detailing...
Beatrix Potter: Her Inner World
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Even before she emerged from the cot in her nursery Beatrix Potter was up against it. With her...
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer
Jessie Hartland and Diane Stanley
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From nonfiction stars Diane Stanley and Jessie Hartland comes a beautifully illustrated biography of...
Writing Master Class
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"Writing 'Master Class' is a biography of David Pownall's play, Master Class (1983), from conception...
The Whispering Swarm
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With his first full novel in almost ten years (not counting his Doctor Who book), Michael Moorcock -...
Darkmans
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Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, an epic novel of startling originality which confirms...