The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon: The Authorized Biography
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Widely regarded as the best British painter since Turner, very little is known about Francis Bacon's...
Autre-Biography: Poetics of Self in J. M. Coetzee's Fictionalized Memoirs
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This study explores the poetics and politics of self in J. M. Coetzee's "autre"-biographical works...
More Than Argentina: The Authorised Biography of Ally Macleod
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Generally remembered only as the manager of Scotland's national football team during the ill-fated...
A Higher Form of Cannibalism?: Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography
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Carl Rollyson's lively and anecdotal investigation of writing about the lives others examines his...
What Fresh Lunacy is This?: The Authorized Biography of Oliver Reed
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Oliver Reed may not have been Britain's biggest film star - for a period in the early 70s he came...
Jonas Kaufmann: The Authorised Biography: In Conversation with
Anthea Bell, Thomas Voigt and Felicity Bryan
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'The most sought-after tenor in the world', the greatest tenor of today', 'the new king of tenors' -...
The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej
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Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of...
Selling Shakespeare: Biography, Bibliography, and the Book Trade
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Selling Shakespeare tells a story of Shakespeare's life and career in print, a story centered on the...
Uncle Bill: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Viscount Slim
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Masterly biography of the 'greatest commander of the 20th century'. Field Marshal Slim is less well...
