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Once Upon a Time

By Ian Bell

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Published 09-May-2013


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Draws together the tangled strands of the many lives of Bob Dylan in all their contradictory brilliance. This book offers a study of a personality that has splintered and reformed, time after time, in a country forever struggling to understand itself.


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Vanished Years

By Rupert Everett

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Published 02-May-2013


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Levels of Life

By Julian Barnes

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Published 04-Apr-2013


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Tells about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart.


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Waging Heavy Peace

By Neil Young

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Published 06-Jun-2013


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Presents a kaleidoscopic view of personal life and musical creativity. This title offers a journey that spans the snows of Ontario to the LSD-laden boulevards of 1966 Los Angeles to the contemplative paradise of Hawaii today.


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Country Girl

By Edna OBrien

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Published 06-Jun-2013


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I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be lucky enough to live in these two intensities that have buttressed my whole life.


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Letters from the Palazzo Barbaro

By Henry James

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Published 07-Feb-2013


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This collection of letters, written during his stays in Venice, provides a unique insight into Henry James's life and work.


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My Animals and Other Family

By Clare Balding

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Published 11-Apr-2013


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Clare Balding grew up in a rather unusual household. Her father a champion trainer, she shared her life with more than 100 thoroughbred racehorses, mares, foals and ponies, as well as an ever-present pack of boxers and lurchers. As a toddler she would happily ride the legendary Mill Reef and take breakfast with the Queen.


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Gustav Mahler

By Jens Malte Fischer

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Published 02-Apr-2013


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Explores Mahler's early life, his relationship to literature, his achievements as a conductor in Vienna and New York, his unhappy marriage, and his work with "Metropolitan Opera" and "New York Philharmonic" in his later years. This title also illustrates why Mahler is a prime example of artistic idealism worn down by Austrian anti-Semitism.


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Down and Out in Paris and London

By George Orwell

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Published 27-Sep-2001


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A memoir of the author's time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris. It documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses, working as a dishwasher in the vile 'Hotel X', living alongside tramps, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts.


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David Mitchell: Back Story

By David Mitchell

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Published 23-May-2013


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David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online commenter-baiting in The Observer or just for wearing a stick-on moustache in That Mitchell and Webb Look, has written a book about his life.


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