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Arts biographies
Bruce
By Peter Ames Carlin
Hardback
Published 30-Oct-2012
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Stunning biography of Bruce Springsteen describing his life and work in vivid intimate detail
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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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Grace
By Grace Coddington
Hardback
Published 22-Nov-2012
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Overnight, the flame-haired the author became a heroine for fashion insiders and the general public alike. This title shares the excitement and vision that go into producing so many unforgettable fashion images.
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Virginia Woolf
By Alexandra Harris
Paperback
Published 18-Feb-2013
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Weaving together the life and work of Virginia Woolf, this book serves as an introduction to both. Following the chronology of Woolfs life, it gives due prominence to her dazzlingly inventive essays, traces the contentious course of her afterlife and shows why, seventy years after her death.
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Mary Shelley
By Muriel Spark
Paperback
Published 28-Mar-2013
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Sergey Prokofiev Diaries, 1924-1933
By Sergey Prokofiev
Hardback
Published 01-Nov-2012
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Covering the years 1924 to1933 when the author was living in Paris, this title offers an account of the successes and disappointments of a great creative artist at the heart of the European arts world between the two World Wars. It documents the inner world of a Russian exile uncomfortably aware of the nature of life in Stalin's Russia.
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Outsider
By Brian Sewell
Hardback
Published 30-Nov-2012
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Richard Burton Diaries
By Chris Williams
Hardback
Published 14-Sep-2012
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In his personal diaries Richard Burton is a man quite different from the one we familiarly know as acclaimed actor, international film star, and jet-set celebrity. From his private, handwritten pages there emerges a different person. This volume publishes in their entirety the surviving diaries of Richard Burton (born Richard Jenkins, 1925-1984).
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Unknown Pleasures
By Peter Hook
Hardback
Published 27-Sep-2012
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The story of Joy Division told by the band's legendary bassist, Peter Hook
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Marilyn
By Lois Banner
Hardback
Published 02-Aug-2012
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With revelatory new information, from a leading feminist scholar and biographer, a nuanced and sympathetic biography of Marilyn Monroe to be published on the 50th anniversary of her death
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