Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection
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Alongside Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality...
Captain Cook: Master of the Seas
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The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with heroic adventurers charting the...
Chaplin: His Life And Art
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David Robinson's definitive and monumental biography of Charlie Chaplin, the greatest icon in the...
Charlemagne: Father of a Continent
Alessandro Barbero and Allan Cameron
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The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist...
Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799-1815
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'Napoleon's legend is so persistent that it confounds the historical reality in the popular...
Dave Grohl: Times Like His: Foo Fighters, Nirvana and Other Misadventures
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Foo Fighters emerged from the morass of suicide and potent musical legacy that was Nirvana to...
Different Drummer: The Life of Kenneth Macmillan
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Kenneth MacMillan's ballets are in constant demand by world-famous companies, particularly Romeo and...
Edward Daly: 16 Lives
Helen Litton and Lorcan Collins
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Born in Limerick in 1891, John Edward or 'Ned' Daly was the only son in a family of nine. Ned's...
Equivalence: Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley
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Equivalence: Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley is the compelling story of one pioneering statistician's...
Ezzard Charles: A Boxing Life
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Genius is seldom recognized in its own time. In the case of Ezzard Charles it took several decades...