Captain of the Carpathia: The Seafaring Life of Titanic Hero Sir Arthur Henry Rostron
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Responding to Titanic's distress calls in the early hours of 15 April 1912, Captain Arthur Rostron...
Charles Darwin: pocket GIANTS
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When Darwin announced his theory of evolution by natural selection, he did more than transform...
Connie: The Life of Learie Constantine
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His father was a first-class cricketer, his grandfather was a slave. Born in rural Trinidad in 1901,...
Death and Mr Pickwick
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On 31 March 1836 the publishers Chapman and Hall launched the first issue of a new monthly...
Devilfish: The Life & Times of a Poker Legend
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From prison cell to Las Vegas penthouse, Devilfish: The Life & Times of a Poker Legend is the...
Earl and His Butler in Constantinople: The Secret Diary of an English Servant Among the Ottomans
Nigel R. Webb and Caroline Webb
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George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull, was an unconventional ambassador. A Scottish aristocrat who had...
Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn
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Born in Brussels in 1929, Audrey Hepburn was the daughter of a British father and a Dutch Baroness....
Fiddlers and Whores: The Candid Memoirs of a Surgeon in Nelson's Fleet
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'A country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels', Nelson's famous description of Naples, was...
Kieren Fallon: The Autobiography
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Kieren Fallon was one of the world's greatest jockeys, but his career was littered with...
Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars
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"[A] fantastically readable and endlessly fascinating book...Delicious, occasionally fantastical,...