Political biography
Last Man Standing
By Jack Straw
Hardback
Published 27-Sep-2012
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The autobiography of Jack Straw - an MP for thirty-three years and at the heart of government throughout the longest-serving Labour administration in history
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Wives and Stunners
By Henrietta Garnett
Hardback
Published 30-Aug-2012
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A vivid, richly observed and compellingly readable account of the women who held the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in thrall.
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General
By Ahmed Errachidi
Paperback
Published 28-Mar-2013
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On 11 September 2001, in a cafe in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed. He was appalled by the loss of innocent life. But he couldn't possibly have predicted how much of his own life he too would lose because of that day. This title tells the Ahmed's story.
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Nelson: A Dream of Glory
By John Sugden
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Published 06-Sep-2012
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Offers an account of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame. This book gives us the private as well as the public man, it combines scholarship with a brilliant and compelling style.
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Map That Changed the World
By Simon Winchester
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Published 04-Jul-2002
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Hidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its maker was a farmer's son named William Smith. Born in 1769 his life was beset by troubles. This title tells his story.
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Bertie
By Jane Ridley
Hardback
Published 30-Aug-2012
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Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian Age but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power in 1901. He was only king for the last nine years of his life. The eldest son of Victoria and Albert, Bertie was bullied by both his parents.
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Passage of Power
By Robert Caro
Hardback
Published 14-Jun-2012
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A work on American President Lyndon Johnson that spans the years 1958 to 1964. It documents Johnson's extraordinary early presidency, forcing previously abandoned bills on the budget and civil rights through an uncooperative Congress and striving to achieve what he saw to be the highest standard of office.
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After Auschwitz
By Eva Schloss
Hardback
Published 11-Apr-2013
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A Story of heartbreak and survival by the step-sister of Anne Frank
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Testament of Youth
By Vera Brittain
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Published 20-Apr-1978
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* A unique record of one woman's experience of twenty-five of the most cataclysmic years in modern history - and a Virago Classic bestseller - with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge
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Pike
By Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Hardback
Published 17-Jan-2013
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The story of Gabriele D'Annunzio: poet, daredevil - and Fascist.
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