Coming of Age
By: Dirk Bogarde
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Based on personal letters, notebooks and diaries, 'Blackcloth' explores the patterns of happiness a…
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1. Cleared for Take Off
By: Dirk Bogarde
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Dirk Bogarde's most recent memoir recalls the wartime years when he served as a captain in photogra… read more
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2. A Postillion Struck by Lightning
By: Dirk Bogarde
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Dirk Bogarde's own vivid and engaging account of his childhood and first steps as an actor - a best… read more
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3. Cranford
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more
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4. Backcloth
By: Dirk Bogarde , Dick Bogarde
4.26
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Based on personal letters, notebooks and diaries, 'Blackcloth' explores the patterns of happiness a… read more
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6. A Short Walk from Harrods
By: Dirk Bogarde
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bogarde, poet, autobiographer and novelist, began his acting career on the stage. Here he recounts … read more
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7. Snakes and Ladders
By: Dirk Bogarde
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Paperback
The sequel to Dirk Bogarde's bestselling memoir, Postillion Struck by Lightning In Snakes and Ladde… read more
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8. Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography
By: Billy Connolly
4.42
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals … read more
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"Blessed are those who yodel - for they shall never be troubled by offers of work."-Billy Connolly, Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography
9. This Much is True
By: Miriam Margolyes
4.09
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more
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"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True
10. Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
By: Lucy Worsley
4.19
Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition
Who was Queen Victoria? A little old lady, potato-like in appearance, dressed in everlasting black?… read more
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"She no longer followed fashion; she had created a fashion all her own."-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
"Surely Victoria's mental health suffered because all the men around her expected it to."-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
"The daily contents even of her bin 'would be more interesting than a year's file of The Times'."-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
"With Bertie's illness, Victoria's return to her best self, the self she had lost in Albert, had begun."-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
11. Johnson at 10: The Inside Story
By: Anthony Seldon
4.22
Format: 662 pages, Hardcover
***Chosen as a non-fiction highlight of 2023 in The Times and the Observer *** After his dramatic … read more
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12. Mr Wilder & Me
By: Jonathan Coe
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle England In the heady… read more
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"In circumstances this desperate there is only one thing that can console me. I always keep at least three different kinds of Brie in the kitchen for emergency situations."-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me
"Mi hija tenía razón: la gente joven no se fija en los sentimientos de sus padres, ni siquiera es consciente de ellos la mayor parte del tiempo. Viven en un bendito estado de sociopatía en lo que resp…"-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me
"The phallic symbolism of his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis, is obvious. Lindbergh, in effect, is trapped inside an enormous penis which carries him onwards to an inevitable destination which cannot …"-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me
"Here I sat down and closed my eyes, tilting my face towards the sun and listening to the gentle lap of the blue water against the rocks. Perhaps it was my destiny, after all, to be always alone: that…"-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me
