Brown-Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry
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Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry draws on dozens of interviews done...
Commander: The Life and Exploits of Britain's Greatest Frigate Captain
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Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest frigate captain...
Coppi: Inside the Legend of the Campionissimo
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Herbie Sykes's Coppi is a beautiful, unique evocation of global cycling legend Fausto Coppi. Built...
David Bowie: the Life
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Dylan Jones' engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever...
Edith Cavell: Nurse, Martyr, Heroine
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Edith Cavell was born in 1865, daughter of a Norfolk vicar, and shot in Brussels on 12 October 1915...
Edmund Burke: The Visionary Who Invented Modern Politics
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Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and...
Einstein's Heroes: Imagining the World Through the Language of Mathematics
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Imagine you are fluent in a magical language of prophecy, a language so powerful it can accurately...
Empire of the Sikhs: The Life and Times of Maharaja Ranjut Singh
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The definitive biography of Ranjit Singh, contemporary of Napoleon and one of the most powerful and...
Everest - The First Ascent: The Untold Story of Griffith Pugh, the Man Who Made it Possible
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This is the winner of the outstanding General Sports Writing Award, British Sports Book Awards. It...
Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D.
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Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled...