Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies
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Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon—the legacy of P. T....
history politics social issues
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam...
Beautiful Things
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‘In AA we say it doesn’t matter if you come from Yale or jail, all addicts are the same. In his...
Vidal
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Vidal Sassoon's extraordinary life has taken him from an impoverished East End childhood to global...
Yukio Mishima
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Yukio Mishima was the most internationally acclaimed Japanese author of the twentieth century:...
Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life
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In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a...
Red Star Against the Swastika: The Story of a Soviet Pilot Over the Eastern Front
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'A gripping insight into the war's bloodiest campaign.' Military Illustrated This is the...
Sailor in the Desert: The Adventures of Phillip Gunn, DSM, RN in the Mesopotamia Campaign, 1915
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Sailor in the Desert is the personal account of a Royal Navy sailor's experiences during the...
Body Language: Narrating Illness and Disability
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As much as we may like to evade them, illness and disability inescapably attend human embodiment -...
Doddie: My Autobiography
Alex MacDonald and Sandy Jardine
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This is the autobiography of a Rangers legend. Alex MacDonald's compelling memoirs cover his...