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Anna Funder's biography is about the life of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen who was so unhappy in her marriage that she wrote to her best friend saying she didn't want to write until the separation or murder was complete.

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M.J. Cornwall writes about the life of American rockstar, PJ Proby who attracted a lot of controversy during his career. He was deported from the UK, blew his fortunes and had troubled marriages.

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Lucy Worsley

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Oliver Darkshire

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Rob Delaney

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Matthew Dennison

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Alain Ducasse

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Annie Ernaux

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The Young Man – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE...

Annie Ernaux

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Isabelle Fiemeyer

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Charlotte Gray

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Thomas Harding

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Victoria Houseman

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Hua Hsu

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Cassidy Hutchinson

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John Niven

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Baek Sehee

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D.J. Taylor

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Mary Trevelyan

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Ranulph Fiennes

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Hilary Mantel

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Jacqueline Alnes

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Tahir Hamut Izgil

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Werner Herzog

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Mason Ball

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Viet Thanh Nguyen

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Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill

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Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill

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The Private Life of Lord Byron

Antony Peattie

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Peter Brown

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Walter Isaacson

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Donna Leon

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Miriam Margolyes

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D.J. Taylor

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Mark Braude

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Sarah Knights

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John le Carré

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Robert Ross

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Before the Light Fades

'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

Natasha Walter

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The Swimmer

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Patrick Barkham

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Carl Sferrazza Anthony

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Mohammad Chowdhury

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Annie Cohen-Solal

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Gwen John

Art and Life in London and Paris...

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Michael Frayn

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Ivan Goncharov

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George

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Frieda Hughes

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Michael Pedersen

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Will Schwalbe

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Neal Wooten

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Elliot Page

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Elizabeth Boyle

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The Life of Patricia Highsmith

Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, UK)

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Annie Ernaux

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Tova Friedman

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The Letters of William Gaddis

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William Gaddis

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Anne Glenconner

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Stephen Haddelsey

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365 Gays of the Year (Plus 1 for a Leap Year)

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Hannah Pick-Goslar

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David Sedaris

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Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

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Robert Zaretsky

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Richard E. Grant

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Ada Lovelace

The World's First Computer Programmer...

Beverley Adams

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King of Pulp Fiction

Max Allan Collins

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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures

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Paul Fischer

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The Noel Coward Diaries

Noel Coward

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1915-1951

Duff Cooper

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Love Me Fierce In Danger

The Life of James Ellroy

Dr Steven Powell

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Never Shaken, Never Stirred

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Christopher Reindorp

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The Best Minds

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Getting Better

Life lessons on going under, getting...

Michael Rosen

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When the Mountains Dance

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Christine Toomey

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The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu

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Jo Willett

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Landlines

Raynor Winn

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Did I Ever Tell You This?

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Sam Neill

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Alanbrooke War Diaries 1939-1945

Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke

Lord Alanbrooke

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The Soul of a Woman

Isabel Allende

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A Grand Tour Journal 1820-1822

The Awakening of the Man

Edward Stanley

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Life

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Paul R. Ehrlich

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One Hundred Saturdays

Stella Levi and the Vanished World...

Michael Frank

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Heather Gay

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A Life of My Own

Xiaolu Guo

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