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		Madame Tussaud
		A Life and a Time		Biography
		Teresa Ransom
		Sutton 2003 272 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0750927658
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	The wax modelling skills of Madame Marie Tussaud (1761-1850) made her a popular sensation in 19th century Britain: but who was the woman behind the name? Teresa Ransom's absorbing biography tells the story of the brave and imaginative young artisan, who, despite working for the French royal family, managed to survive the revolution by making likenesses of its victims' severed heads, and who fled a disastrous marriage to finally make her reputation and fortune by exhibiting her work in London.
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		Alexander the Corrector
		The Tormented Genius Who Unwrote the Bible		Biography
		Julia Keay
		HarperCollins 2004 270 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 000713195X
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	The Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures was the monumental achievement of Aberdeen-born proof-reader Alexander Cruden (1699-1770), who spent twelve years and vast sums of money on its 2.5 million words. Despite his three confinements in asylums, Julia Keay doubts the widespread belief that Cruden was mad, and has at last uncovered the harrowing and sometimes comic story of his involvement in a scandal, too shocking to reveal at the time, which destroyed the career of a remarkable, enigmatic man.
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		Oscar Wilde
		His Life and Confessions		Biography
		Frank Harris
		Wordsworth 2007 368 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1840225548
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	Written in 1910, and first published privately in New York in 1916, Harris's book gained instant notoriety, was attacked by critics for its extravagant inventions and taken to court for libel by Lord Alfred Douglas; it was eventually published in England in 1938. Despite being famously inaccurate, the study offers a well-paced and highly evocative portrait of a compelling personality - and of Harris's own role as Wilde's defender, adviser and sometime friend.
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		Secret Lives
		of Walter Mitty and of James Thurber		Biography
		James ThurberIllus Marc Simont
		Collins Design 2006 48 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0060847883
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	Now an American archetype, Walter Mitty, the hen-pecked fantasist, is the most famous creation of the humorist James Thurber (1894-1961). The original story first appeared in the New Yorker in 1932. It is joined here by an autobiographical reflection inspired by The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, although 'Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb'. Both pieces are illustrated by Marc Simont.
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		The Life of David
				Biography
		Robert Pinsky
		Schocken 2005 210 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0805242031
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	King David is perhaps the most approachable of Old Testament figures, with his triumphs and divine destiny contrasting with his very human flaws, grief and humiliation. Both the Psalms, which are claimed by tradition to contain David's own words, and his interactions with figures such as Goliath, Bathsheba, Saul, Jonathan and Absalom, reveal different facets of his character. Pinsky blends imagination with the biblical texts and commentary in this thought-provoking narrative account of David's life.
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		Oliver Stone
				Biography
		Stephen Lavington
		Virgin 2004 300 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 075350975X
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	Oliver Stone is now one of the most controversial and well-known of contemporary American directors, but he began his career as a screen writer, responsible for the scripts of Midnight Express and Scarface. This guide covers both his writing and directorial features, discussed in chronological order from Seizure (1974) to Alexander (2004).
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		The Secret Annexe
		An Anthology of War Diarists		Biography
		Irene & Alan Taylor (Edited by)
		Canongate 2004 676 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1841954438
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	Whether military commanders planning battles, famous literary figures or just ordinary civilians caught up in events they cannot control, the diarists anthologized here are united by experience of wartime. The excerpted journals, kept by authors as varied as Pepys, Tolstoy and Orwell, Anne Frank, Anna Politkovskaya and Salam Pax, cover conflicts ranging from the 17th-century Anglo-Dutch Wars and the American War of Independence to the Falklands, Chechnya and Iraq.
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		Ivan the Terrible
				Biography
		Kazimierz Waliszewski
		Nonsuch 2006 384 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1845880803
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	Ivan (1530-84) has been seen by history as a cruel and brutal ruler, setting up Russia's first secret police and exiling or killing thousands. Kazimierz Waliszewski's account of the Tsar's life (first published in 1904) gives a more balanced assessment of a reign full of contradictions. It begins with a description of the country's political and social condition, its intellectual life and customs, before demonstrating Ivan's achievements, such as his establishment of a standing army.
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		VS Pritchett
		A Working Life		Biography
		Jeremy Treglown
		Chatto & Windus 2004 308 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 070117322X
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	Pritchett's long and productive life (1900-1997) saw him travel widely, working as a journalist in Paris, in Ireland and in Spain before the Civil War, in the cinema industry in England and America, and, most famously, as the writer dubbed the 'English Chekhov'. This new biography analyses the art of his writing and uses previously unpublished letters and diaries to offer an intimate glimpse into his daily balancing of work with family life. Off-mint.
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		Mary Poppins She Wrote
		The Life of PL Travers		Biography
		Valerie Lawson
		Aurum 1999 380 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1845131266
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	Pamela Lyndon Travers (1899-1996), was born in Queensland and came to London in 1924 as a budding journalist, poet and actress, but found international fame with her children's classic, Mary Poppins, in 1934. In a long and busy life, Travers had a deep interest in theosophy and mysticism, and was an enthusiastic follower of Gurdjieff and Yeats. This highly readable account is the first full biography of a secretive woman who famously declared 'I don't like personal publicity'.
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		Cyril Connolly
		A Life		Biography
		Jeremy Lewis
		Pimlico 1997 653 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0712666354 230x150mm
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	While he was notoriously slothful and spent much of his life haunted by feelings of failure, Cyril Connolly produced, in The Unquiet Grave and Enemies of Promise, two classics of English prose. This sizeable biography covers the facts of his life, including his three marriages, but also quotes extensively from his work, explaining his thought and celebrating his wit and romanticism.
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		Ricky Rudd
				Biography
		John Regruth
		MBI 2002 156 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 076031327X
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	Ricky Rudd's career has surged since he signed on with the Robert Yates team in 2000. With 27 Winston Cup career victories to his credit, Rudd set a modern day NASCAR Winston Cup record by posting at least one win every year from 1982 through 1998. In addition to comprehensive race data and track-by-track results, a selection of colour photography spanning Rudds entire NASCAR career includes candid shots of the driver and action photos of the cars he has driven through the 2001 season.
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		Jeff Gordon
		The NASCAR Superstar's Story		Biography
		Glen Grissom; Leah Noel
		Motorbooks 2005 160 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0760321787 270x210mm
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	When Jeff Gordon burst onto the NASCAR scene in the early 1990s, he broke the stereotypical mould for a stock car racing champion. He was young, handsome, articulate, media-savvy and from California. This book covers his approach to driving, his team and cars, and his business knowledge as a leading endorser and now a team owner.
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		The Bird Man
		The Extraordinary Story of John Gould		Biography
		Isabella Tree
		Ebury 2004 324 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0091895790
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	This lively biography of John Gould (1804-1881) is a story of discovery, ambition and unscrupulous genius in the emerging world of natural history research. Gould got his first big break when he was asked to stuff a giraffe for George IV in 1829, but he was later appointed curator and preserver of the newly-formed Zoological Society, and went on to compile some of the most influential works on birds ever created.
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		Wasn't That a Time?
		Growing Up Radical and Red in America		Biography
		Robert Schrank
		MIT 1998 452 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0262193892
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	The autobiography of Robert Schrank who went from Young Communist League member and union activist to management consultant for global corporations telling of his childhood in the Bronx German immigrant working-class culture of the 1920s and 1930s and of a community of political and intellectual passion being torn apart as it struggles to deal with the rise of Nazism and the decline of the old radical movement.
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