Space Below My Feet
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A classic mountaineering memoir by one of the UK's foremost female climbers. In 1945, when Gwen...
Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning
Elizabeth Sigmund and Gail Crowther
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Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning is part memoir, part biography focusing on the fifteen...
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2014. Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany,...
Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing
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Best known for his Oscar-nominated song "Miss Misery" from the Good Will Hunting soundtrack, Elliott...
Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke (1730-97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He...
James Brindley and the Duke of Bridgewater: Canal Visionaries
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Disappointed in love, Francis Egerton, Third Duke of Bridgewater, (1736-1803) retreated to...
Love, Paul Gambaccini: My Year Under the Yewtree
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Paul Gambaccini was arrested in the dead of night in October 2013. Possessions confiscated, smeared...
Max Eastman: A Life
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The definitive biography of a radical activist and intellectual Max Eastman (1883-1969) was a...
Menuhin: A Life
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Since 2000, when this biography was first published, Menuhin's name has not faded from public...
Life in the Time of Oil: A Pipeline and Poverty in Chad
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Life in the Time of Oil examines the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project-a...