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George Eliot, Voice of a Century: A Biography

By Frederick R. Karl (New York University.)

Annabel Moeller: Friends to Frontiers

By Annabel Moeller

Chanel

By Axel Madsen

Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War

By Hal Vaughan

A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus

By Frederic Raphael

Terence Conran

By Nicholas Ind

The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust

By Diana B. Henriques

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The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

By John Henry Phillips

Pharaohs of the Sun: Radio 4 Book of the Week, How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty

By Guy de la Bédoyère

The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast

By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Florence: A Traveller's Reader

By Edward Chaney, harold acton

Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter

By Mary Soames

The Lives of Lee Miller: The Inspiration for the major motion picture 'Lee'

By Antony Penrose

Long Drawn Out Trip: A Memoir

By Gerald Scarfe

Role Models

By John Waters

Boy in a China Shop: Perfect for fans of THE GREAT POTTERY THROW DOWN and OUR WELSH CHAPEL DREAM

By Keith Brymer Jones

The Mysterious Mrs Hood: A True Victorian Mystery of Scandal, Arson, Murder & Betrayal

By Kim Donovan

Under A Rock

By Chris Stein

Time Exposure: The Life of Brodrick Haldane, Photographer, 1912-96

By Brodrick Haldane, Roderick Martine

To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse: 1 of Pitchfork's 10 Best Music Books of 2023

By Howard Fishman

Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

By Roger Lewis

The Clearing: A memoir of art, family and mental health

By Samantha Clark

Did Anything Good Come Out of... WWI?

By Philip Steele

The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali

By Ian Gibson

Diaries

By Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett

Warhol

By Victor Bockris

The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir

By Claude Lanzmann, Adriana Hunter (Author), Frank Wynne (Translator)

Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential within Us All

By Kelley, David, Kelley, Tom