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Branson by Tom Bower
No British tycoon is more popular, few claim to be richer and none has masterminded a more recognizable brand than Richard Branson. What is behind the success of the buccaneering balloonist, the tabloids' favourite celebrity nude, the "grinning jumper" and the scourge of corporate goliaths? Helped b
Arise Sir Michael Caine by William Hall
In this authorized biography, William Hall paints a portrait of a man who has achieved his success with a mixture of innate talent, cool cheek, abrasive wit and perceptive observation. But he has also known his fair share of heartache.
I Don't Mean To Be Rude, But...: The Truth About Fame, Fortune And My Life In Music by Simon Cowell
No one can deny the impact that Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell has made. His acerbic put-downs and witty one-liners have sparked an international debate and at the same time earned him a legion of admirers. Cowell's own story has all the brutal honesty you'd expect. I Don't Mean to be Rude, But- is as
Lucky by Alice Sebold
In a memoir hailed for its searing candour and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus.
Mussolini by Nicholas Farrell
How did Mussolini manage to take power and hold onto it through two decades? What inspired Churchill to call him 'the Roman genius' and Pope Pius XI to say he was 'sent by Providence'? How did he manage to do away with democracy and not use mass murder to stay in command? Mussolini ruled by popular
Georgiana, Duchess Of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the eighteenth century. The great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, she was variousl
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
A full-scale biography of naval administrator Samuel Pepys, who was well-known for being the friend of the famous and powerful. This text, which draws on Pepys' own personal diary, covers his childhood and young adulthood. It moves through the famous diary years and beyond, to the death of his wife
The Big Breach: From Top Secret To Maximum Security by Richard Tomlinson
The first insider's account of MI6 exposes: - MI6's espionage against France, Germany and other European countries. - MI6's disregard for the civil rights of the British public and its own employees. - MI6's routine use of the media, non-governmental organisations and the United Nations as covers
Abandoned: The True Story Of A Little Girl Who Didn't Belong by Anya Peters
Separated from her real mother at birth, Anya grew up in terror of her drunken bullying uncle. Beaten, humiliated and sexually abused by him from the age of six, she thought her life couldn't get worse. But one day it did. "I was used to Daddy screaming 'whore's child' at me, over and over again. Bu
Bertie,may And Mrs Fish Country Memories Of Wartime by Xandra Bingley
In this sparkling memoir, Xandra Bingley vividly captures an idyllic and terrifying country childhood that begins in the Second World War in an Elizabethan farmhouse in the Cotswold Hills.
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir Of A Childhood by Frank Mccourt
"Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish im
Everywhere For Wales by Phil Bennett
Autobiography of a welsh rugby player
Opening Up by Geoff Boycott
Autobiography of the Yorkshire cricketers
Love And War In The Apennines (picador Books) by Eric Newby
Eric Newby tells of his time spent in Italy after the 1943 armistice. He describes the kindness of the peasants and the beauty of the landscape. It is here that he also met the girl who was to become his wife
Lucky by Alice Sebold
In a memoir hailed for its searing candour and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus.
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