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bulletThe Adversary: A True Story Of Murder And Deception   Emmanuel Carrère   Shocking, disturbing, brilliant - and, as the title says, true…pbk £6.99
bulletAlbert Speer: His Battle With Truth   Gitta Sereny   pbk £12
bulletAlexander the Great   Robin Lane Fox   pbk £12.99
bulletAll Too Human: A Political Education   George Stephanopoulos   Memoirs of a former Clinton aide
bulletAndy Warhol   Wayne Koestenbaum   pbk £6.99
bulletAnother Self   James Lees-Milne   Lees-Milne’s immensely funny, self-deprecating autobiographypbk £9.99
bulletAnthony Blunt: His Lives   Miranda Carter   pbk £8.99
bulletAuberon Herbert: A Composite Portrait   John Jolliffe (ed)  
bulletBetween Silk And Cyanide   Leo Marks   Memoirs of wartime cryptographer at SOEpbk £12
bulletByron: Life And Legend   Fiona McCarthy   pbk £9.99
bulletChernobyl Strawberries   Vesna Goldsworthy   pbk £7.99
bulletThe Child That Books Built   Francis Spufford   hbk £12.99pbk £7.99
bulletA Circle Of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin   Judith Flanders   pbk £8.99
bulletCries Unheard   Gitta Sereny   A compelling account of the life of Mary Bell
bulletCurzon   David Gilmour  
bulletDavid Geffen: A Biography Of New Hollywood   Tom King  
bulletDefying Hitler: A Memoir   Sebastian Haffner   The first publication of a 1939 memoir by a man who later became one of Germany's most celebrated historianspbk £7.99
bulletDirk Bogarde: The Authorised Biography   John Coldstream   A superb profile of Ulric's complicated, remarkable unclehbk £20pbk £9.99
bulletDiscoveries: The Voyages Of Captain Cook   Nicholas Thomas   pbk £9.99
bulletEastern Approaches   Fitzroy Maclean   A classic, true adventure storypbk £8.99
bulletThe English Dane   Sarah Bakewell   hbk £18.99pbk £8.99
bulletFarewell To Salonica   Leon Sciaky   hbk £16.99
bulletFirst Friends   Ronald Blythe (ed)   After the Slade, John & Paul Nash, Carrington and others corresponded for two decades. These fascinating memoirs have now come to light. Illustrated
bulletThe Gatekeeper   Terry Eagleton   pbk £6.99
bulletGeorgiana – Duchess of Devonshire   Amanda Foreman   pbk £8.99hbk £19.99
bulletGreat Meadow   Dirk Bogarde  
bulletGreene On Capri: A Memoir   Shirley Hazzard   The author and her late husband, Francis Steegmuller, with their friend on the island of story and songpbk £6.99
bulletGwen John: A Life   Sue Roe   Drawing on her lettershbk £25pbk £8.99
bulletHans Christian Andersen: The Life Of A Storyteller   Jackie Wullschlager   pbk £8.99
bulletThe Hated Wife: Carrie Kipling, 1862-1939   Adam Nicolson   pbk £4.99
bulletA Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius   Dave Eggers   The extraordinary - and true - story of how a young man's struggle following the loss of his parentspbk £7.99
bulletHigh Spirits   Joan Sims   Bittersweet memories of rep, landladies and carryings-on
bulletHis Invention So Fertile: A Life Of Christopher Wren   Adrian Tinniswood   pbk £12.50
bulletHitler, A Study In Tyranny   Alan Bullock   pbk £9.99
bulletImages and Shadows   Iris Origo   hbk £20pbk £13.99
bulletImproper Pursuits: The Scandalous Life Of Lady Di Beauclerk   Carola Hicks   An enjoyable tale of a rebel artist in C18th society
bulletLa Grande Thérèse: The Greatest Swindle Of The Century   Hilary Spurling   The illustrated story of Thérèse Humbert, whose financial hoax hoodwinked the French a century ago
bulletThe Last Days Of Hitler   Hugh Trevor-Roper   pbk £12pbk £8.99
bulletThe Last Leopard   David Gilmour   This brilliant life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa effortlessly evokes that strange, dingy world that was Sicily…pbk £12.99
bulletA Late Beginner   Priscilla Napier   pbk £9.99
bulletA Life   Gabriel Josipovici   A portrait of the author's late mother
bulletLillie Langtry   Laura Beatty   hbk £20pbk £7.99
bulletLittle Mother Of Russia: A Biography Of Empress Marie Feodorovnya   Coryne Hall   No academic history, but a truly fascinating biography of the Danish Princess Dagmar, who married the Tsarevitch in 1867 and died in exile in 1928hbk £25
bulletThe Long Recessional: The Imperial Life Of Rudyard Kipling   David Gilmour   The excellent biographer and historian turns his attention to Kipling's public facehbk £22.50pbk £15
bulletLovers On The Nile   Richard Hall  
bulletLytton Strachey   Michael Holroyd   pbk £10.99
bulletA Material Girl: Bess Of Hardwick, 1527-1608   Kate Hubbard   pbk £4.99
bulletMemoirs: Laughing And Dancing Our Way To The Precipice   Mme de la Tour de Pin  
bulletNapoleon And Wellington   Andrew Roberts   Roberts marshalls his material like a general himself: this is fluent, confident history-writing, and the subject was ripe for reassessmentpbk £9.99
bulletNo Tears In Ireland   Sylvia Couturié   Two young French sisters are trapped in wartime Ireland - a charming, plangent memoirpbk £9.99
bulletOn The Missionary Trail   Tom Hiney   Two representatives of the London Missionary Society inspecting outposts, 1821-9pbk £7.99
bulletOnce Upon Another Time: Ventures Behind The Iron Curtain   Jessica Douglas-Home   A fascinating mix of biography and recent history, in which the author describes efforts to help Eastern European dissidentshbk £16.95
bulletOver Here   Raymond Seitz   An American Ambassador's take on the Britain he grew to love - the most readable of memoirspbk £7.99
bulletPalimpsest   Gore Vidal   Superlative autobiographypbk £9.99hbk £20
bulletThe Paymaster: Geoffrey Robinson, Maxwell And New Labour   Tom Bower   hbk £17.99pbk £7.99
bulletPeople Who Say Goodbye: Memories Of Childhood   P Y Betts   A sharp, sad, funny memoirpbk £9.99
bulletPortrait of a Turkish Family   Irfan Orga   pbk £9.99
bulletThe Princess of Siberia   Christine Sutherland   pbk £8
bulletThe Prize Of All The Oceans   Glyndwr Williams   A history of Commodore Anson's voyage around the world in 1740
bulletQuicksands: A Memoir   Sybille Bedford   hbk £20
bulletA Royal Affair: George III And His Troublesome Siblings   Stella Tillyard   hbk £20
bulletRussian Conspirators In Siberia   Andreas von Rozen, introduction by Johnny de Falbe   pbk £9.99
bulletSacred Monsters   John Richardson   Lively profiles of such figures as Peggy Guggenheim, Cecil Beaton and Lucien Freud, by the great biographer of Picasso
bulletSalisbury: Victorian Titan   Andrew Roberts   A model biographyhbk £25pbk £12.99
bulletThe Secret Orchard of Roger Ackerley   Diana Petre  
bulletShadows On The Grass   Simon Raven   pbk £7.99
bulletShelley: The Pursuit   Richard Holmes   pbk £9.99
bulletA Short Walk From Harrods   Dirk Bogarde   pbk £6.99
bulletSidetracks: Explorations Of A Romantic Biographer   Richard Holmes   pbk £7.99
bulletStand Before Your God   Paul Watkins   pbk £6.99
bulletStet   Diana Athill   Looking back at forty years of publishingpbk £7.99
bulletThe Surgeon Of Crowthorne   Simon Winchester   The amazing tale of the friendship between two Victorians, one a scholar and the other a madman, and how each played his part in the creation of The Oxford English Dictionarypbk £6.99
bulletSurreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917-45   Ruth Brandon  
bulletTwo Lives: Gertrude And Alice   Janet Malcolm   hbk £16.99
bulletVera (Mrs Vladimir Nabokov) – Portrait of a Marriage   Stacy Schiff   A must for all Nabokov enthusiastspbk £12.99
bulletViolet   Jessica Douglas-Home  
bulletThe Wilder Shores of Love   Lesley Blanch   pbk £7.99
bulletWork Adventures Childhood Dreams   Patience Gray   An unusal and beautifully presented volume of episodes from the life and work of the Italy-based authorhbk £30
bulletWriting At The Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography Of Elizabeth David   Artemis Cooper  
bulletWritten Lives   Javier Marías   hbk £12pbk £7.99
 

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