New and Recommended: Biography

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The eagerly awaited, no-holds-barred biography of the great poet: an intellectual maverick, sexual rebel and icon of queer literature.'The first biography of Thom Gunn, and likely the definitive one. [...] Nott's book is one of the best…

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A portrait of a brilliant journalist and tireless campaigner for justicePaul Foot was one of the most influential investigative reporters of his generation. For nearly fifty years, he was the scourge of corrupt politicians and dodgy…

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An intimate meditation on bodies, age and self-acceptance, from the author of The Black FlamingoYou've fought and you've run away.You've danced with other Black queer bodies until sunrise.Sometimes you wanted to be caught and sometimes…

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Translated from the Chinese by Jennifer FeeleyIn 1989, the acclaimed Hong Kong writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her semi-autobiographical novel Mourning a Breast is a disarmingly honest and inventive account of…

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A dazzlingly original blend of memoir, essay, biography and poetry, reflecting on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page, by the acclaimed biographer and obituaristThe acclaimed biographer and obituarist for The…

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The rebellious life of a novelist, screenwriter and revolutionary activistBorn in Poona, India, Farrukh Dhondy came to England in 1964 and immersed himself in radical politics and the counterculture. He kicked off a career in journalism…

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A richly layered, nuanced and deeply moving memoir about how butterflies become the vital connection between a son and his dying father.When Ben Masters' father, a dedicated naturalist, is confined to the house with inoperable cancer, he is…

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'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer'Extraordinary . . . a quality of timelessness and prescience' New Statesman, Book of…

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'A first-rate biography of the man, the writer and the lover' DAVID HOCKNEY'Bucknell's research is impressive and her judgements astute' GUARDIANAn engrossing new biography of the man whose writings about 1930s Berlin made him…

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The story of a mother grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child - from the award-winning and bestselling memoirist of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight'Truly extraordinary' HELEN MACDONALD‘A profound…

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Translated by Don KnottingProfiled in The Times, The Independent and by BBC ReelsI'm starting a service . . . available for any situation in which all you want is a person to be there. Maybe there's a restaurant you want…

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A witty, perceptive memoir tracking Dylan Jones's twenty memorable years at GQ at the turn of the century.Few people can say they have shaped the cultural landscape of the last four decades while crossing paths with some of the…