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The Adversary: A True Story Of Murder And Deception Emmanuel Carrère Shocking, disturbing, brilliant - and, as the title says, true… pbk £6.99
Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth Gitta Sereny pbk £12
Alexander the Great Robin Lane Fox pbk £10.99
All Too Human: A Political Education George Stephanopoulos Memoirs of a former Clinton aide
Andy Warhol Wayne Koestenbaum pbk £6.99
Another Self James Lees-Milne Lees-Milne’s immensely funny, self-deprecating autobiographypbk £9.99
Anthony Blunt: His Lives Miranda Carter pbk £8.99
Auberon Herbert: A Composite Portrait John Jolliffe (ed)
Between Silk And Cyanide Leo Marks Memoirs of wartime cryptographer at SOEpbk £12.99
Byron: Life And Legend Fiona McCarthy pbk £9.99
Chernobyl Strawberries Vesna Goldsworthy pbk £7.99
The Child That Books Built Francis Spufford hbk £12.99pbk £7.99
A Circle Of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin Judith Flanders pbk £8.99
Cries Unheard Gitta Sereny A compelling account of the life of Mary Bell
Curzon David Gilmour pbk £15.99
Dancing To The Precipice: Lucie de la Tour du Pin And The French Revolution Caroline Moorehead hbk £20
David Geffen: A Biography Of New Hollywood Tom King
Defying 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
Dirk Bogarde: The Authorised Biography John Coldstream A superb profile of Ulric's complicated, remarkable unclepbk £9.99
Discoveries: The Voyages Of Captain Cook Nicholas Thomas pbk £9.99
Eastern Approaches Fitzroy Maclean A classic, true adventure storypbk £8.99
The English Dane Sarah Bakewell hbk £18.99pbk £8.99
Farewell To Salonica Leon Sciaky hbk £16.99
First 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
Frances Partridge: A Life Anne Chisholm hbk £25
The Gatekeeper Terry Eagleton pbk £10
Georgiana – Duchess of Devonshire Amanda Foreman pbk £8.99hbk £19.99
Great Meadow Dirk Bogarde
Greene On Capri: A Memoir Shirley Hazzard The author and her late husband, Francis Steegmuller, with their friend on the island of story and songpbk £7.99
Gwen John: A Life Sue Roe Drawing on her letterspbk £8.99
Hans Christian Andersen: The Life Of A Storyteller Jackie Wullschlager pbk £8.99
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance Edmund de Waal hbk £16.99
The Hated Wife: Carrie Kipling, 1862-1939 Adam Nicolson pbk £4.99
A 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
High Spirits Joan Sims Bittersweet memories of rep, landladies and carryings-on
His Invention So Fertile: A Life Of Christopher Wren Adrian Tinniswood pbk £15.99
Hitler, A Study In Tyranny Alan Bullock pbk £16.99
Images and Shadows Iris Origo pbk £12.99
Improper Pursuits: The Scandalous Life Of Lady Di Beauclerk Carola Hicks An enjoyable tale of a rebel artist in C18th society
La 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
The Last Days Of Hitler Hugh Trevor-Roper pbk £7.99
The Last Leopard David Gilmour This brilliant life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa effortlessly evokes that strange, dingy world that was Sicily…pbk £12.99
A Late Beginner Priscilla Napier pbk £9.99
A Life Gabriel Josipovici A portrait of the author's late mother
Lillie Langtry Laura Beatty
Little 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 1928pbk £14.95
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life Of Rudyard Kipling David Gilmour The excellent biographer and historian turns his attention to Kipling's public facepbk £15
Lovers On The Nile Richard Hall
Lytton Strachey Michael Holroyd pbk £14.99
A Material Girl: Bess Of Hardwick, 1527-1608 Kate Hubbard pbk £4.99
Me - The Authorised Biography Byron Rogers hbk £14.99
Memoirs: Laughing And Dancing Our Way To The Precipice Mme de la Tour de Pin
Mother Land Dmetri Kakmi hbk £16.99
Napoleon 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
No Tears In Ireland Sylvia Couturié Two young French sisters are trapped in wartime Ireland - a charming, plangent memoir
On The Missionary Trail Tom Hiney Two representatives of the London Missionary Society inspecting outposts, 1821-9
Once 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
Over Here Raymond Seitz An American Ambassador's take on the Britain he grew to love - the most readable of memoirs
Palimpsest Gore Vidal Superlative autobiographypbk £10.99
The Paymaster: Geoffrey Robinson, Maxwell And New Labour Tom Bower
People Who Say Goodbye: Memories Of Childhood P Y Betts A sharp, sad, funny memoirpbk £9.99
Portrait of a Turkish Family Irfan Orga pbk £9.99
The Princess of Siberia Christine Sutherland pbk £8
The Prize Of All The Oceans Glyn Williams A history of Commodore Anson's voyage around the world in 1740
Quicksands: A Memoir Sybille Bedford pbk £8.99
A Royal Affair: George III And His Troublesome Siblings Stella Tillyard hbk £20pbk £8.99
Russian Conspirators In Siberia Andreas von Rozen, introduction by John de Falbe pbk £9.99
Sacred Monsters John Richardson Lively profiles of such figures as Peggy Guggenheim, Cecil Beaton and Lucien Freud, by the great biographer of Picasso
Salisbury: Victorian Titan Andrew Roberts A model biography
The Secret Orchard of Roger Ackerley Diana Petre
Shadows On The Grass Simon Raven
Shelley: The Pursuit Richard Holmes pbk £14.99
A Short Walk From Harrods Dirk Bogarde
Sidetracks: Explorations Of A Romantic Biographer Richard Holmes pbk £7.99
The Snows Of Yesteryear Gregor von Rezzori - Unavailable
Stand Before Your God Paul Watkins pbk £7.99
Stet Diana Athill Looking back at forty years of publishingpbk £7.99
The 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 £8.99
Surreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917-45 Ruth Brandon
Two Lives: Gertrude And Alice Janet Malcolm hbk £16.99- Unavailable
Vera (Mrs Vladimir Nabokov) – Portrait of a Marriage Stacy Schiff A must for all Nabokov enthusiastspbk £12.99
Violet Jessica Douglas-Home
The Wilder Shores of Love Lesley Blanch - Unavailable
Work Adventures Childhood Dreams Patience Gray An unusal and beautifully presented volume of episodes from the life and work of the Italy-based authorhbk £30
Writing At The Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography Of Elizabeth David Artemis Cooper
Written Lives Javier Marías hbk £12pbk £7.99
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