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They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper
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LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A book like no other - the tale of a...
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Updike is Adam Begley's masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures...
Vladimir Jabotinsky's Story of My Life
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Vladimir Jabotinsky is well remembered as a militant leader and father of the right-wing Revisionist...
Walden & Civil Disobedience
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No nineteenth-century American writer can claim to be as modern as Henry David Thoreau. His central...
Shute: The Engineer Who Became a Prince of Storytellers
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Nevil Shute was a writer whose books were frequently looked down on by literary critics and yet when...
Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation
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Studs Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America's cult of celebrity. He was a leftist...
The Communist and the Communist's Daughter: A Memoir
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The Frood: The Authorised and Very Official History of Douglas Adams & the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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As a wise ape once observed, space is big - vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly so. However, if you look...
Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place
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Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of...