Biography
Racing Through the Dark
By David Millar
Paperback
Published 28-Jun-2012
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The SUNDAY TIMES bestselling memoir from the Tour de France cyclist who lifts the lid on his drug use and return to sport.
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View from the Foothills
By Chris Mullin
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Published 14-Jan-2010
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The author has been a Labour MP for 20 years, and despite his refusal to toe the party line, he has held several prominent posts. This book offers humorous and incisive takes on various aspects of political life: from the build-up to Iraq, to the scandalous sums of tax-payers' money spent on ministerial cars he didn't want to use.
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Decline & Fall
By Chris Mullin
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Published 07-Jul-2011
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Offers an account of a New Labour backbencher. This title features the diaries that provide a snapshot of life in the Westminster village.
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Reinventing Bach
By Paul Ellie
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Published 09-Oct-2012
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As a musician in eighteenth-century Germany, Bach was on the technological frontie - restoring organs, inventing instruments, and perfecting the tuning scheme still in use today. This book brings Bach into the digital present, where smartphones, video, and multimedia put the sound of Bach all around us.
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Man Who Sold The World
By Peter Doggett
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Published 04-Oct-2012
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Explores the rich heritage of Bowie's productive and inspired decade, and traces the way in which his music reflected and influenced the world around him. This book examines in detail Bowie's audacious creation of an 'alien' rock star, Ziggy Stardust, and his increasingly perilous explorations of the nature of identity and the meaning of fame.
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Freak
By Nile Rodgers
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Published 05-Jul-2012
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"Le Freak" is the fascinating inside story of pop music and its tangled roots, narrated by the man who absorbed everything in his topsy-turvy life--the pain and euphoria and fear and love--and turned it into some of the most sparklingly ebullient pop music ever recorded.
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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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Mad World
By Paula Byrne
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Published 27-May-2010
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A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England's greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, 'Brideshead Revisited'.
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Spy Who Loved
By Clare Mulley
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Published 11-Apr-2013
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The remarkable story of Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, George Medal, OBE and Croix de Guerre.
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Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins
By Rupert Everett
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Published 05-Jul-2007
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* A truly remarkable book - a warm, witty and sophisticated memoir from one of our most intriguing and articulate stars
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