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Carmen Maria Machado: In the Dream House

SERPENT'S TAIL, 2020

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad.

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Carrie Fisher:The Princess Diarist

BLACK SWAN, 2016

When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved -

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Chris Kyle: American Sniper

WILLIAM MORROW, 2015

From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history.

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Christine Mondon: Mozart, pere et fils - Leur destin en musique

L'ARTILLEUR, 2024

On connaît Mozart l’enfant prodige, mais connaît-on Mozart le fils ?Cet ouvrage révele l'histoire de deux vies profondément liées par l’amour de la musique. Que serait devenu Wolfgang sans son pere ?

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Christopher Clarey: The Master

TWELVE, 2022

There have been other biographies of Roger Federer, but never one with this kind of access to the man himself, his support team, and the most prominent figures in the game, including such rivals as Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Roddick.

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Claire Harman: All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the art of risking everything

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2024

Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield’s career was short but dazzling.

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Classic American Autobiographies

SIGNET BOOK, 2014

The true diversity of the American experience comes to life in this superlative collection of autobiographies--including those of Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglas, Mark Twain, and more...

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Corey Taylor: Seven Deadly Sins

EBURY PRESS, 2012

The action begins in West Des Moines, Iowa, where Corey Taylor, frontman of Slipknot and Stone Sour, systematically set about committing each of the Seven Deadly Sins. He has picked fights with douche bags openly brandishing guns.

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Cosey Fanni Tutti - Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti

FABER & FABER, 2022

In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film about Delia Derbyshire, the pioneering electronic composer who influenced the likes of Aphex Twin and the Chemical Brothers.

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Czeslaw Milosz: Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition

PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2014

After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation.

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Daniel Kehlmann: Der unsichtbare Drache: Ein Gespräch mit Heinrich Detering

KAMPA VERLAG, 2019

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David Attenborough: Adventures of a Young Naturalist

TWO ROADS, 2018

In 1954, a young television presenter was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for London Zoo's collection, and to film the expeditions for the BBC.

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David Attenborough: Journeys to the Other Side of the World - Further Adventures of a Young Naturalist

TWO ROADS, 2019

With charm, erudition, humour and passion, the world's favourite natural history broadcaster documents some of his expeditions from the late 1950s onwards' Sunday Express

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David Herszenhorn: The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner

TWELVE, 2024

There's an old saying that Russia without corruption isn't Russia. Alexey Navalny refuses to accept this proposition.

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Debbie Harry: Face It - A Memoir

HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2022

DEBBIE HARRY is a musician, actor, activist and the iconic face of New York City cool.

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Deborah Feldman: Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2020

Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.

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Dick & Angel Strawbridge: The Chateau - Forever Home

SEVEN DIALS, 2023

Take a journey to Château-de-la-Motte Husson in the spellbinding memoir from Sunday Times bestselling authors, Dick and Angel Strawbridge.

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Dick Strawbridge, Anne Strawbridge: A Year at the Chateau

SEVEN DIALS, 2021

Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in the French countryside, the Strawbridges fell in love with a 19th-century fairytale château.

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