Tales of the Gypsy Dressmaker by Thelma Madine
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Tales of the Gypsy Dressmaker is the much-anticipated memoir from Thelma Madine, the dressmaker and breakaway star from Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, the most-talked about show on TV in 2011.
Justin Bieber: Just Getting Started by Justin Bieber
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Get your backstage pass at the ready as you go behind the scenes with Justin Bieber, in his brand new book - 100% official - and discover what life is really like as the world's hottest pop star! Justin Bieber has come a long way from being your average school kid, busking on the streets of the small to ...Show more
The Grand Tour - Letters and Photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922 by Agatha Christie & Mathew Prichard (ed.)
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie's extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition. In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on ...Show more
Trafficked: The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Sold into the Sex Trade by Sophie Hayes
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
He'd been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn't know him at all... When everything seemed to be falling apart in Sophie's life, she was thankful for her friend Kas, who was always at the end of a phone, ready to listen and to offer comfort and advice.Her father's cold ...Show more
Mandela : The Authorised Biography by Anthony Sampson
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampson's remarkable book has now been updated by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby. Over a decade after his presidency of South Africa, Nelson Mandela remains an inspirational figure to millions of people - ...Show more
We Bought a Zoo: the Amazing True Story of a Broken down Zoo, and the 200 Animals That Changed a Family Forever by Benjamin Mee
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
A film tie-in edition to 20th Century Fox's film adaptation of the heart-warming international bestseller starring Scarlett Johansson and Matt Damon and directed by Oscar-winning director Cameron Crowe. A few years ago, Ben and his wife, Katherine, sold their small flat in Primrose Hill and moved to Fra ...Show more
Memories of Milligan by Norma Farnes
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
An arresting collection of interviews, collated by Norma Farnes, Spike Milligan's close friend and longstanding agent, bringing to life the late, great Milligan in all his various guises. Heralded as brilliant and difficult in equal measure, Spike Milligan is one of the most prolific and mould-breaking ...Show more
This is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl by Paul Brannigan
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
The biography of the extraordinary career of Dave Grohl, drummer of Nirvana, front man of the Foo Fighters, based on original and exclusive interviews ("A rich history"--New York Times Book Review)This Is a Call, the first in-depth, definitive biography of Dave Grohl, tells the epic story of a singular ...Show more
This Is a Call - The Life and Times of Dave Grohl by Paul Brannigan
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's been in bands that have changed popular music forever. He saw his best friend commit suicide. He starts supergroups. He's the nicest guy in rock. From Nirvana to Foo Fighters, from brotherhood to bitt ...Show more
A Widow's Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
"My husband died, my life collapsed." On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray expected him to be released in a day or two. But in less than a ...Show more
No More Silence: He Thought He'd Got Away with it. But One Day Little David Would Find the Strength to Speak Out. by David Whelan
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
David had everything. No-one knew the London businessman was born into a world beyond poverty, the son of a rapist father and disturbed mother. Abandoned as a baby, he spent most of his childhood in care and suffered appalling sexual abuse. But no-one knew. But a call from the abuser's wife, 30 years on ...Show more
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
The riveting story of Conor Grennan's year in Nepal reads like a cross between Into Thin Air and Three Cups of Tea. While volunteering at an orphanage, Conor discovers that the children are not orphans: they are trafficked. Despite the danger, Conor treks up dirt paths with photographs of the children, ...Show more