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|author= Adam Sisman

|title= John le Carre: The Biography

|rating= 5

|genre= Biography

|summary=Some twenty years ago David Cornwell, better known as novelist John le Carré, told a couple of would-be writers about him that he did not believe in 'authorised' biographies or critiques. Adam Sisman, who has since then been granted exclusive access to the man and his private archive, can therefore consider himself a lucky man.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408827921</amazonuk>

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|author= Catherine Hewitt

|summary=It must be rare indeed that a British political figure who never became Prime Minister is the subject of or deserves a biography comprising 750 pages of text. However, as John Campbell demonstrates in this volume, it is difficult to do justice to the life, times and career of Roy Jenkins in much less than that.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087509</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Walter Dean Myers~~

~~|title=An African Princess: From African Orphan to Queen Victoria’s Favourite~~

~~|rating=3.5~~

~~|genre=Historical Fiction~~

|summary=This elegant edition of An African Princess tells of the life of Sarah Bonetta who is suddenly swept from the threat of a savage execution in 1848 only to face a brave new world under the patronage of the imperious Queen Victoria. Meticulously researched by the twice elected US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Walter Dean Myers, it is a creatively imaginative account, with an historical backbone of genuine diary entries, letters, autobiographical work, contemporary newspapers, social and anthropological studies and period photographs.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406354449</amazonuk>~~

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