BIOGRAPHERS
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Bate, Jonathan. Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life. 2015.
Bennett, Alan. A Life Like Other People’s. 2009.
Bew, John. Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee. 2016.
Bond, Martyn. Hitler’s Cosmopolitan Bastard: Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi. 2021.
Brandon, Ruth. Ugly Beauty: The Ugly Face of the Beauty Business. 2011.
Brendon, Piers. Churchill’s Bestiary: His Life Through Animals. 2018.
Brown, Craig. Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret. 2017.
Brown, Craig. One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time. 2020.
Campbell, John. Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life. 2014
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood: A Multiple Murder and its Consequences. 1966.
Carew, Keggie. Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory. 2016.
Cep, Casey. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee. 2019.
Clark, Duncan. Alibaba: The House that Jack Built. 2018.
Clark, Heather. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath. 2020.
Crick, Michael. One Party After Another: the Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage. 2022.
Cumming, Laura. Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez. 2016.
Cumming, Laura. On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons. 2019.
Dallek, Robert. Franklin D.Roosevelt: A Political Life. 2017.
Elliott, Andrea. Invisible Child; Poverty, Survuval and Hope in an American City. 2013.
Fairweather, Jack. Volunteer: The The Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz. 2019.
Fraser, Caroline. Praire Fires: The American Dreams of Lura Ingalls Wilder. 2017.
Frayn, Michael. My Father’s Fortune: A Life. 2010.
Freeman, Hadley. House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a 20th Century Jewish Family. 2020.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abaraham Lincoln. 2005.
Hazareesingh, Sudhir. Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussant Louverture. 2019.
Hilsum, Lindsey. In Extremis: The Life and Death of Marie Colvin. 2018.
Hooper, Meredith. The Longest Winter: Scott’s Other Heroes. 2011.
Hunt, Tristram. The Radical Potter. Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain. 2021.
Ince, Catherine. The World of Charles & Ray Eames. 2015.
Isaacson, Walter. Steve Jobs. 2011.
Isaacson, Walter. Elon Musk. 2023.
Jackson, Julian. A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle. 2018.
Kaufman, Jonathan. The Last Kings of Shanghai. 2020.
Keefe, Patrick Radden. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. 2017.
Kershaw, Ian. Hitler. 2008.
Kuper, Simon. Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK. 2022.
Lovell, Julia. Maoism: A Global History. 2019.
Mallaby, Sebastian. The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan. 2016.
Matar, Hisham. The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between. 2016.
Misak, Cheryl. Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers. 2020.
Moaveni, Azadeh. Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS. 2019.
Morris, Desmond. The Lives of the Surrealists. 2018.
Moser, Benjamin. Sontag: Her Life. 2019.
Mount, Ferdinand. KIss Myself Goodbye: the Many Lives of Aunt Munca. 2020.
Murphy, Andrew. William Penn: A Life. 2018.
Ni Ghriofa, Doireann. A Ghost in the Throat. 2020.
Payne, Les & Tamara. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X. 2020.
Preston, John. Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell. 2020.
Rappaport, Helen. In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon. 2022.
Renton, Alex. Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s Story of Slavery. 2021.
Richards, Steve. The Prime Ministers: Reflections on Leaderhsip from Wilson to Johnson. 2020.
Roberts, Andrew. Napoleon the Great. 2014.
Service, Robert. Stalin: A Biography. 2004.
Short, Philip. Putin: His Life and Times. 2022.
Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lonely Genius. 1995.
Steadman, Philip. Vermeer’s Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces. 2002.
Stewart, Jeffrey. New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke. 2018.
Stott, Rebecca. In the Days of Rain. 2017.
Szirtes, George. The Photographer at Sixteen. 2019.
Tomalin, Claire. The Young H.G.Wells: Changing the World. 2021.
van Es, Bart. The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found. 2018
Wiedeman, Reeves. Billion Dollar Loser: Adam Neumann and WeWork. 2021.
Wolfe, Tom. The Right Stuff. 1979.
Wolff, Michael. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. 2018.
Woodward, Bob. Fear: Trump in the White House. 2018.
Wulf, Andrea. The Adventures of Alexander von Humbolt, the Lost Hero of Science. 2019.