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Arts biographies
Benjamin Britten
By Paul Kildea
Hardback
Published 28-Jan-2013
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In the eyes of many, Benjamin Britten was our finest composer since Purcell (a figure who often inspired him) three hundred years earlier. He broke decisively with the romantic, nationalist school of figures such as Parry, Elgar and Vaughan Williams and recreated English music in a fresh, modern, European form.
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My Animals and Other Family
By Clare Balding
Hardback
Published 13-Sep-2012
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I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a dog, and suspect I had aged in dog years. By the time I was ten I had discovered the pain of unbearable loss. I had felt joy and jealousy. Most important of all, I knew how to love and how to let myself be loved. All these things I learnt through animals. In this title, the author tells her story.
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Mr Foote's Other Leg
By Ian Kelly
Hardback
Published 11-Oct-2012
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A tale of murder, comedy and tragedy: the riotous story of the one-legged superstar of Georgian London.
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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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Mad Girl's Love Song
By Andrew Wilson
Hardback
Published 31-Jan-2013
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An intimate portrait of the brilliant and tragic literary enigma before her marriage to Ted Hughes, based on her early poems, letters and diaries
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Cezanne
By Alex Danchev
Hardback
Published 18-Oct-2012
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Today we view Cezanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839-1906), many did not understand him or his work. This title covers the days and years of this visionary who would 'astonish Paris with an apple'. It is also a complete assessment of Cezanne's influence through artistic imaginations in our own time.
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Wits and Wives
By Kate Chisholm
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Published 01-Nov-2012
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Dr Johnson is often thought of as a strident, overbearing conversationalist, a man who famously asserted that 'Women have all the liberty they should wish to have'. The author argues that it is time to consider how Johnson lived his life, not just what he said.
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Benjamin Britten
By Neil Powell
Hardback
Published 31-Jan-2013
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Benjamin Britten, the greatest twentieth-century English composer and one of the outstanding musicians of his age, was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, in 1913. This title follows Britten through school and college days, involvement with Auden Generation in 1930s and self-imposed wartime exile in America, to his emergence as a paradoxical figure.
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Vanished Years
By Rupert Everett
Hardback
Published 27-Sep-2012
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Going to Sea in a Sieve
By Danny Baker
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Published 06-Nov-2012
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Comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter Danny Baker charts his 30 years in showbiz.
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