by John Foster
Foster's original Life of Dickens remains the most intimate. A portrait not only of a great man but of a friend. This sumptiously illustrated edition is a real gem, beautiful to hold and fascinating to read.
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by Peter Ackroyd
This is a portrait of the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr, and of the social and cultural world in which he lived.
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by Dava Sobel
Full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, Longitude is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking.
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by Jenny Uglow
Story of the members of the Lunar Society of Birmingham influential minds from science, art and commerce who kick-started the Industrial Revolution.
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by Jane Robinson
This, the first full-length biography of a Victorian celebrity recently voted the greatest black Briton in history, brings Mary Seacole centre stage at last.
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by Sian Rees
Combining meticulously researched tales of London’s underworld with the little-known story of penal transportation to America, Moll is as fast-moving and rich in incident as Defoe’s great novel.
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by Tonie Hart
This is the full account of the tragic life of John 'Jack' Kipling. On 27th September 1915 John Kipling, the only son of Britain's best loved poet, disappeared during the Battle of Loos. The body lay undiscovered for 77 years.
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by John Sugden
Huge, weighty and well-written this comprehensive and intimate biography of Nelson would make an impressive present.
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by John Sugden
The first volume in Sugden's biography of Nelson. Nelson: A Dream of Glory is the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched account ever written of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame.
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by Matthew Hollis
An account of the final five years of First World War poet Edward Thomas, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas' fatal decision to fight in the war.
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