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Arts biographies
Levels of Life
By Julian Barnes
Hardback
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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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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Unknown Pleasures
By Peter Hook
Paperback
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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Gustav Mahler
By Jens Malte Fischer
Paperback
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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My Animals and Other Family
By Clare Balding
Paperback
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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Real Jane Austen
By Paula Byrne
Hardback
Published 17-Jan-2013
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Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne's landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books.
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Mom and Me and Mom
By Maya Angelou
Hardback
Published 11-Apr-2013
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Vanished Years
By Rupert Everett
Paperback
Published 02-May-2013
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Pigs Might Fly
By Mark Blake
Paperback
Published 07-Mar-2013
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Mark Blake's history of Pink Floyd - the first for fifteen years - has already been acknowledged as the final word on this remarkable band's life.
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Daphne Du Maurier and Her Sisters
By Jane Dunn
Hardback
Published 28-Feb-2013
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Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography.
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