Arts biographies
Trials of Radclyffe Hall
By Diana Souhami
Paperback
Published 28-Mar-2013
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The scandalous life of one of England's great eccentrics.
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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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Beyond the Page
By Quentin Blake
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Published 15-Nov-2012
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The author is one of the best-known illustrators in the world, creating iconic characters for amongst others Russell Hoban, Joan Aiken, Michael Rosen, and Roald Dahl. In this title, he writes about his projects and describes his working processes, his collaborators, his travels, and his various projects and commissions.
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Fifth Avenue, 5am
By Sam Wasson
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Published 03-Jan-2013
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This is the story of how one shy, uncertain, inexperienced young actress was persuaded to take on a role she at first thought too hard-edged and amoral
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Pigs Might Fly
By Mark Blake
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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
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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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Rin Tin Tin
By Susan Orlean
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Published 01-May-2013
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'Rin Tin Tin is a remarkable book... A wonderfully entertaining account of one of the strangest partnerships in a very strange milieu' --John Banville, Guardian
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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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Just Kids
By Patti Smith
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Published 04-Jan-2011
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Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe
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Saul Bellow's Heart
By Greg Bellow
Hardback
Published 11-Apr-2013
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In this warm, affectionate, yet strikingly honest look inside the life of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers, the son of the Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow offers a view of a man known to be quick to anger, prone to argument, and palpably vulnerable to criticism.
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