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Political biography
Everybody Matters
By Mary Robinson
Hardback
Published 13-Sep-2012
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Moving memoir from the first female President of Ireland, and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson.
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Commander
By Stephen Taylor
Hardback
Published 06-Sep-2012
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Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest frigate captain in the age of sail. An incomparable seaman, a master of the quarterdeck and an athlete of the tops, he was as quick to welcome a gallant foe into his cabin as to dive to the rescue of a man overboard. This title presents his portrait.
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Black Count
By Tom Reiss
Hardback
Published 20-Sep-2012
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Born in St Dominigue in 1762, the son of a French nobleman and a sugar plantation slave, General Alexandre Dumas did not have an auspicious start in life. This book traces the almost unbelievable life of the man who inspired not only Monte Cristo, but all three of the Musketeers: the novelist's own father.
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Ed
By Mehdi Hasan
Paperback
Published 01-Oct-2012
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Ed Miliband is perhaps the least understood political leader of modern times. This book reveals where he has come from and where he is going.
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Memoirs of a Revolutionary
By Victor Serge
Paperback
Published 28-Jun-2012
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Just Boris
By Sonia Purnell
Paperback
Published 01-Mar-2012
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A major and controversial new biography of one of the most compelling and contradictory figures in modern British life.
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Homage to Catalonia
By George Orwell
Paperback
Published 30-Mar-2000
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Describes the hopes and cynical betrayals of the author's experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War.
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Lion and the Unicorn
By Richard Aldous
Hardback
Published 25-Oct-2007
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Gladstone and Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals. The vitriolic duel between Gladstone and Disraeli was nothing less than a battle to lead the richest powerful nation on earth. To Disraeli, his antagonist was an 'unprincipled maniac'. For Gladstone, his rival was 'The Grand Corrupter'. Victorians were electrified by the confrontation.
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Marquess of Queensberry
By Linda Stratmann
Hardback
Published 26-Mar-2013
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Through the retelling of pivotal events from the author's life, including the death of his brother on the Matterhorn, his fruitless search for him, and the suicide of his father, this book reveals a well-meaning man often stricken with a grief he found hard to express, who deserves our compassion.
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