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Synopsis From his gold medal at the 1960 Olympic Games to his defeat of Sonny Liston to claim the world heavyweight championship in 1964, the unf...

Synopsis Subtitled : Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (Eminent Lives). Bill Bryson's bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader...

Synopsis A Times Book of the Year. Through such hits as "The Sound of Silence," "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Still Crazy After All These Years," ...

Synopsis The compelling story of Britain's best-ever cyclist (as of 2007) - one of the most enigmatic, complex and contradictory athletes in any s...

Synopsis With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the...

Synopsis The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the ...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Greatest 2nd Act in the History of Business. iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for i...

Synopsis The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen Victoria...

Synopsis This volume forms part of the Life and Times series of compact and accessible biographies which cover key political, literary and musical ...

Synopsis Oscar Peterson was one of jazz’s greatest piano players, a multi-Grammy award-winner who recorded almost 200 albums. But the man was much ...

Synopsis Queen are unique among the great rock bands. It is a long time since frontman Freddie Mercury’s death brought the band to an end - yet the...

Synopsis Soon after creating the experimental pop group, Pink Floyd, in 1966, Syd Barrett took to using hallucinogenic drugs, which led to schizoph...

Synopsis The bizarre and fascinating story of Alexander Cruden, who single-handedly compiled the monumental dictionary/index/gazetteer to the Bible...

Synopsis Previously published as : A Long Way Home - A Memoir. Now a major motion picture. When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-l...

Synopsis A chronological list of events in The Who's career. The introduction describes it like this: "Virtually every word in this book was spoken...

Synopsis One of the great minds of the 19th Century, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was responsible for some of the most impressive engineering feats of h...

Synopsis The Stones - their story - the band's meteoric rise to fame, the Marianne Faithfull, Brian Jones and Altamont scandals, the groundbreaking...

Synopsis The Apollo Moon Programme has been called the last optimistic act of the 20th century. Over a strange three-year period between 1969 and 1...

Synopsis Athlete, activist, rebel, poet, legend - Muhammad Ali stood larger than life in the imagination of hundreds of millions of people around t...

Synopsis Early book on Steve Jobs and Apple. Long out-of-print and highly acclaimed, Steve Jobs: The Journey is the Reward is the searing, detailed...

Synopsis Subtitled : Conversations with the Dalai Lama. This book records the first time the Dalai Lama has spoken at length about the story of Tib...

Synopsis Hailed as `authoritative' and `essential', Trump Revealed is the indispensable biography of the 45th president of the United States. Just ...