Best Selling Biography Books
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Its Not what You ThinkChris Evans The story of how one council estate lad made good, really very good, and survived -- just about -- to tell the tale! More... |
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A Life Like Other People's Alan Bennett Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People's is the core of his collection Untold Stories. It is a poignant memoir of his parents' marriage and his own childhood, recalling Christmases with Grandma Peel and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties, Kathleen and Myra. With the sudden descent of his mother into depression and, later, dementia, a long-held family secret is uncovered in this moving and at times irresistibly funny work. More... |
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Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson Written by a mountaineer who in 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, drifted cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. It tells how moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school. It tells the story of that promise and its outcome. More |
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Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer Michael Mansfield 'Everyone has the right to representation. As a defence lawyer it's my job to defend the indefensible' Michael Mansfield, QC More
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The House of WittgensteinA Family At War Alexander Waugh The true story of a one-handed pianist and the fall of his aristocratic family More |
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Everything is ConnectedThe Power of Music Daniel Barenboim A memoir by the master pianist, conductor and internationalist Daniel Barenboim - 'the closest thing that classical music can offer to Nelson Mandela' [THE TIMES] More |
