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Biography
Life Inside
By Erwin James
Paperback
Published 10-Apr-2003
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In the mid 1980s Erwin James was sentenced to life imprisonment. Over recent years, he has written powerfully about prison life for the Guardian. James writes candidly about learning the who, what, why and when of the prison world.
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Home Stretch
By Erwin James
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Published 14-Apr-2005
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Nineteen years ago, Erwin James was sentenced to life imprisonment. Over the past 5 years, he has written powerfully about prison life for 'The Guardian' newspaper. 'The Home Stretch' picks up where 'A Life Inside' left off. It doesn't glorify wrongdoing, but sets out to answer some of the questions raised by his first collection of articles.
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Wizard
By Jon Henderson
Hardback
Published 02-May-2013
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Stanley Matthews is one of the most famous footballers ever to play the beautiful game. He played 84 matches for England in a career that spanned an extraordinary 33 years and such was his popularity that attendance for his club teams, Stoke City and Blackpool, more than doubled when he played. This book tells his story.
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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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3,096 Days
By Natascha Kampusch
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Published 16-Sep-2010
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On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old the author was snatched off the street by a stranger and bundled into a white van. Hours later she was lying on a cold cellar floor, rolled up in a blanket. When she emerged from captivity in 2006, having endured one of the longest abductions in recent history, her childhood had gone. This title tells her story.
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Nijinsky
By Lucy Moore
Hardback
Published 02-May-2013
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Tells the tragic story of ballet's great revolutionary, Nijinsky. In this book, the author examines a career defined by two forces - inspired performance and an equally headline-grabbing talent for controversy.
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Stolen Life
By Jaycee Dugard
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Published 12-Apr-2012
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Jaycee Dugard's raw and powerful memoir: her own story of being kidnapped as an 11-year-old and held captive for over 18 years.
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Play it Again
By Alan Rusbridger
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Published 17-Jan-2013
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As editor of the "Guardian", the author's life is dictated by the demands of the 24-hour news cycle. It is not the kind of job that leaves much time for hobbies. But in the summer of 2010, he managed to make his annual escape to a 'piano camp'.
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Unknown Pleasures
By Peter Hook
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Published 25-Apr-2013
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The story of Joy Division told by the band's legendary bassist, Peter Hook. .
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Diary of a Man in Despair
By Friedrich Reck
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Published 07-Mar-2013
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