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Our Reviews
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 autobiography pbk £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 SOE pbk £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 £12.99 pbk £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 historians pbk £7.99
Dirk Bogarde: The Authorised Biography John Coldstream   A superb profile of Ulric's complicated, remarkable uncle pbk £9.99
Discoveries: The Voyages Of Captain Cook Nicholas Thomas   pbk £9.99
Eastern Approaches Fitzroy Maclean   A classic, true adventure story pbk £8.99
The English Dane Sarah Bakewell   hbk £18.99 pbk £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 £8.99 hbk £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 song pbk £7.99
Gwen John: A Life Sue Roe   Drawing on her letters pbk £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 parents pbk £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 1928 pbk £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 face pbk £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 reassessment pbk £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 dissidents hbk £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 autobiography pbk £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 memoir pbk £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 £20 pbk £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 publishing pbk £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 Dictionary pbk £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 enthusiasts pbk £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 author hbk £30
Writing At The Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography Of Elizabeth David Artemis Cooper  
Written Lives Javier Marías   hbk £12 pbk £7.99
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