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Beatles Beatles Mike Venezia Tells the story of the world's most celebrated and influential rock group. OL106275W
My fathers' daughter My fathers' daughter Hannah Pool In 1974 Hannah Pool was adopted from an orphanage in Eritrea and brought to England by her white adoptive father. She grew up unable to imagine what it must be like to look into the eyes of a blood … OL11971838W
The Crafty Cockney: Eric Bristow The Crafty Cockney: Eric Bristow Eric Bristow The autobiography of the legendary darts player and a British sporting iconERIC BRISTOW MBE is considered to be the greatest darts player of all time and one who pioneered the game's move from the pu… OL14988421W
The way of the shark The way of the shark Greg Norman A champion golfer and CEO of the Great White Shark corporation traces his rise from a teenage caddy to a three-time PGA winner while discussing how to apply strategies learned on the course to a busi… OL15155743W
Anne Boleyn Anne Boleyn G. W. Bernard "In this groundbreaking new biography, G.W. Bernard offers a fresh portrait of one of England's most captivating queens. Through a wide-ranging forensic examination of sixteenth-century sources, Bern… OL15568133W
Paul McCartney and Stella McCartney Paul McCartney and Stella McCartney Tim Ungs Biography of a talented fashion designer who is also the daughter of a world famous father who was in the Beatles. OL16051769W
George II George II Andrew C. Thompson Despite a long and eventful reign, Britain's George II is a largely forgotten monarch, his achievements overlooked and his abilities misunderstood. This landmark biography uncovers extensive new evid… OL16126004W
Winter king Winter king Thomas Penn It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and counter-coups. Henry VII had clambered to the top of the heap - a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England… OL16127019W
Sir Hugh Plat Sir Hugh Plat Malcolm Thick The scientific and proto-scientific community of Elizabethan and Jacobean London has lately attracted much scholarly attention. This book advances the subject by means of an investigation of the life… OL16359774W
Spilling the beans Spilling the beans Clarissa Dickson Wright The no-holds-barred autobiography of one of the nation's best-loved cooks, Clarissa Dickson Wright, whose life has led her from wealth and privilege to alcoholism, bankruptcy and eventually fame in '… OL16469763W
Catherine of Aragon Catherine of Aragon Giles Tremlett The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a … OL16631458W
A spoonful of sugar A spoonful of sugar Brenda Ashford Brenda Ashford is the quintessential British nanny. Prim and proper, gentle and kind, she seems to have stepped straight out of Mary Poppins. For more than six decades, Nanny Brenda swaddled, diapere… OL16665040W
My life in a column My life in a column Tracey Emin An anthology of pieces artist Tracey Emin wrote for The Independent newspaper in London, a weekly column that ran between 2005 and 2009, that touch on everything from the themes behind her work to he… OL16693286W
Capturing the Light Capturing the Light Roger Watson,Helen Rappaport An intimate look at the journeys of two men -- a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist -- as they struggled to capture the world around them, and in the process invented modern photography. Duri… OL16811574W
Gypsy Boy On The Run Gypsy Boy On The Run Mikey Walsh "Mikey is a Romany Gypsy and grew up living in a caravan on sites across the UK. He adored his family and the rich and vibrant Romany culture he'd inherited but eventually he was forced to make the h… OL17466047W
The baroness The baroness Hannah Rothschild A biography of the author's great-aunt, jazz patroness Nica de Koenigswarter, drawing on family records to examine the traditions that shaped her youth, her marriage to Baron Jules de Koenigswarter, … OL17828173W
Nearer the heart's desire Nearer the heart's desire Robert D. Richardson "Weaving together the biographies of two poets separated by some eight-hundred years, Robert Richardson brings to life one of the most famous-- and ancient works of poetry in all existence"--Front ja… OL17867988W
A Leg to Stand on A Leg to Stand on Oliver Sacks Dr. Oliver Sacks's books *Awakenings*, *An Anthropologist on Mars* and the bestselling *The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat* have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment… OL1811908W
The Spicer diaries The Spicer diaries Michael Spicer "Lord Michael Spicer has enjoyed a varied and remarkable political career by anyone's standards. Now, in this revealing, insightful, and engaging book, Lord Spicer shares never-before-heard stories o… OL18179408W
Sunlight on the lawn Sunlight on the lawn Nichols, Beverley Sunlight on the Lawn brings to a close Beverley Nichols's delightful Merry Hall trilogy describing the renovation of his rundown Georgian mansion and its garden. In his entertaining and inimitable ma… OL1824923W
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