New and Recommended: Biography

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The new collection of essays, poetry and stories from the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker‘I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration’ PHILIP PULLMAN‘One of Britain’s greatest…

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A deeply personal and powerful memoir from beloved music icon Neneh CherryA GUARDIAN MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024A BBC CULTURE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024'Neneh is cool, Neneh is wise, Neneh is a legend. Her memoir is a treasure. I loved…

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In his intimate memoir, legendary ballet dancer and entertainer Wayne Sleep looks back on the extraordinary times he's lived through.Wayne Sleep has danced with ballet legends Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, partied with Freddie Mercury…

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The 1980s were a shock. Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government battered left movements, painfully disrupted working-class peoples’ livelihoods and pressed down on many groups who faced discrimination.There was no shortage…

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From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed‘Moving, funny, remarkable’ - Richard Eyre‘A few days ago, a bomb went off in my life, but this bomb has also…

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The Extraordinary Life of a Revolutionary JournalistRadical journalist Claud Cockburn fought successfully against the political and media establishment, writing for publications as varied as The Times and Private Eye. To Graham Greene, he…

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‘A capstone on Rüdiger Görner’s already impressive scholarly work, In the Future of Yesterday is a carefully researched study that eloquently advances new insights in the life of Stefan Zweig.  With an…

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The long-awaited memoir of the legendary actor, for readers of Keith Richards’ LIFE and Bruce Springsteen’s BORN TO RUNDiscover the incredible and revelatory autobiography from one of the most iconic actors in the…

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Richly imaginative and powerfully empathetic, an intimate portrait of five remarkable Black men, and a meditation on race, estrangement and the search for home.'Thrilling and ingenious, propulsive and genre-defying: The…

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin - and the first full biography in over thirty years - written by the award-winning author…

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‘A gripping portrait of a life, a relationship, a mind as it stretches and stretches.’ — Dr Noreen Masud, author of A Flat PlaceSuzanne Joinson grew up in a 1980s council estate in Crewe, where her parents were…

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Translated by Peter GreenThe second volume in Simone de Beauvoir’s celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figureFirst published in 1960, The Prime of Life offers an…

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'Exquisite... a beautiful book, one of the finest meditations on animal companionship that I have ever read' Kathryn Hughes, Guardian An instant New York Times bestseller, this is an unforgettable story about love, loss…

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From bestselling author Sarah Moss, a boundary-breaking memoir about the battleground of the female body, and about how reading and thinking can save you.'Moss writes so compassionately about human frailty while her own work is as close to…

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'A.N. Wilson's biography of the German polymath is wild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject' - Frances Wilson, the Telegraph'Rich and full and passionate and intelligent and deeply needed for these murky…