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A Different Kind of Life
by Virginia Williams
Frank Williams' team was on the verge of winning the Formula One World Championship for the third time when his life was turned upside down. The racing car constructor was on his way to Nice Airport on a spring afternoon in 1986 when he lost control of his car, suffering horrific injuries in a crash that left him a quadriplegic. For his wife, Ginny, the accident meant taking on new and unwanted roles as head of the household and family decision-maker, while also struggling to overcome the anger and grief she felt after the accident.
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Mutual Admiration Society
by Mo Moulton
A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights. In 1912, Dorothy L. Sayers and five friends founded a writing group at Somerville College, Oxford; they dubbed themselves the 'Mutual Admiration Society.' Brilliant, bold, serious, and funny, these women were also sheltered and chaperoned, barred from receiving degrees despite taking classes and passing exams. But things for women were changing they gained the right to vote and more access to the job market.
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Beneath the Surface
by Libby Trickett
Australians know Libby Trickett as one of our golden girls of swimming. Winner of multiple Olympic gold medals and setter of world records, Libby wasn't just a champion, she was Australia's girl next door, the humble superstar from suburban Brisbane with the infectious grin and sunny nature. Yet what we saw on the surface the confidence, competitiveness and warmth that were her hallmarks belied the very private battles she fought in her own head.
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Down in the Valley: a Writer's Landscape
by Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee left his childhood home in the Cotswolds when he was nineteen, but it remained with him throughout his life, until, many years later, he returned for good. In this never before published collection, Laurie Lee guides us through his home landscape around Slad in Gloucestershire, and the memories of his youth there.
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Noble Savages : the Olivier Sisters, Four Lives in Seven Fragments
by Sarah wWatling
From the beginning of their lives, the Olivier sisters stood out: surprisingly emancipated, strikingly beautiful, markedly determined, and alarmingly 'wild'. Rupert Brooke was said to be in love with all four of them; D. H. Lawrence thought they were frankly 'wrong'; Virginia Woolf found them curiously difficult to read. The sisters seemed always to be one step ahead of their time.
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Sam Wanamaker : a Global Performer
by Diana Devlin
Actor. Director. Activist. Sam Wanamaker is best known as the man who spent the last twenty five years of his life reconstructing Shakespeare's Globe near its original site just south of the Thames in London. Tragically, he died four years before its Gala Opening in 1997.
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Over the Top : My Story
by Jonathan van Ness
The funny, poignant and inspirational memoir from Queer Eye's loveable connoisseur of hair, and style - Jonathan Van Ness. Jonathan Van Ness has an effect on people. His warmth and wit radiates from every pore of his body. He is best known as the heart and soul and breakout star of QUEER EYE, one of the most watched shows on Netflix.
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Tall Tales and Wee Stories
by Billy Connolly
In December 2018, after 50-years of belly-laughs, energy, outrage and enjoyment, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from stand-up comedy. It had been an extraordinary career. When he first started out in the late Sixties, Billy played the banjo in the folk clubs of Glasgow. Between songs, he would improvise a bit, telling anecdotes from the Clyde shipyard where he worked. In the process, he made all kinds of discoveries about what audiences found funny, from his own exaggerated body movements to the power of speaking explicitly about sex.
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Journey to Self
by Barry D. Hampshire
Offering the reader more than the excitement of travels and adventures in 1977 Europe and the Middle East, Barry Hampshire's engaging memoir examines the formative moments that helped him to mature and to design his life from the inside out bringing him spiritual joy.
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Breaking & Mending
by Joanna Cannon
A few years ago, I found myself in A&E. I had never felt so ill. I was mentally and physically broken. So fractured, I hadn't eaten properly or slept well, or even changed my expression for months. I sat in a cubicle, behind paper-thin curtains and I shook with the effort of not crying. I was an inch away from defeat but I knew I had to carry on. Because I wasn't the patient. I was the doctor.
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Radio Heaven : One Woman's Journey to Grace
by Sam Collins
This powerfully captures the story of one woman growing up on a rough housing estate in England to living the dream in California and adopting a little girl called Grace from war-torn DR Congo.
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The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
by Joe Posnanski
Harry Houdini. Say his name and a number of things come to mind. Escapes. Illusions. Magic. Chains. Safes. Live burials. Close to a century after his death, nearly every person in America knows his name from a young age, capturing their imaginations with his death-defying stunts and daring acts. He inspired countless people, from all walks of life, to find something magical within themselves. This is a book about a man and his extraordinary life, but it is also about the people who he has inspired in death.
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