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Stephen King
Half memoir, half craft manual: Stephen King recounts his childhood, his drinking and the accident that nearly killed him, and sets out plai... (Automatically generated book description)
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Michael Coren
Michael Coren tells Tolkiens life for young readers: orphan, soldier, professor, and the man who invented Middle-earth because he lacked lan... (Automatically generated book description)
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Matt Thorne
Matt Thorne on Prince: the albums, the lost recordings, the contradictions. The most detailed account of his work so far. (Automatically generated book description)
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Peter-André Alt
Peter-Andre Alt on Sigmund Freud: the biography of a way of thinking that changed an entire age, contradictions included. (Automatically generated book description)
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Thomas Pletzinger
Thomas Pletzinger accompanied Dirk Nowitzki over years: training, injuries, the championship, and a game he changed. (Automatically generated book description)
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Olivier Bellamy
Olivier Bellamys authorised biography of Martha Argerich, the pianist who cancels concerts and then outshines everyone. (Automatically generated book description)
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Hubert Mania
Hubert Manias monograph on Stephen Hawking: the illness, the cosmology, and the fame that came from both. (Automatically generated book description)
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Heather Morris
Lale Sokolov had to tattoo the prisoner numbers at Auschwitz. That was how he met Gita. Heather Morris, from his own account. (Automatically generated book description)
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Ulla Fröhling
Ulla Froehling on the Colonia Dignidad sect in Chile: forced labour, abuse, and German complicity. (Automatically generated book description)
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Hardy Kettlitz
Hardy Kettlitz on Edmond Hamilton, the inventor of space opera, with an appendix on Leigh Brackett. (Automatically generated book description)
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Masha Gessen
The book tells the story of Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman, who solved one of the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics and then... (Automatically generated book description)
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Eva Karnofsky
Eva Karnofsky on women in Latin America who lead states, run corporations and head movements. (Automatically generated book description)
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Patrick Bahners
Patrick Bahners on Helmut Kohl and on why so many underestimated him so thoroughly. (Automatically generated book description)
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Ralf Georg Reuth
Ralf Georg Reuth approaches Helmut Kohl by way of the man rather than the chancellor. (Automatically generated book description)
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Omer Meir Wellber
Omer Meir Wellber on Mozart, on fear, and on the risk that belongs to making music. (Automatically generated book description)
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Clemens Unterreiner
Clemens Unterreiner on life as a baritone at the Vienna State Opera. (Automatically generated book description)
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Norbert Frei
Norbert Frei on the Flick family: armaments, forced labour, a postwar career, and billions. (Automatically generated book description)
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Jürgen Gottschlich
The first biography of Guenter Wallraff, the man who was so many other people. Juergen Gottschlich. (Automatically generated book description)
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Richard Brox
Richard Brox was homeless for thirty years and tells what the street is really like. (Automatically generated book description)
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Johan Cruyff
Johan Cruyff on his football and on why beautiful and successful go together. (Automatically generated book description)
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Georg Markus
Georg Markus on Sigmund Freud, the man in the Berggasse and not only the founder of psychoanalysis. (Automatically generated book description)
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Kirsten Boie
For her 70th birthday, Kirsten Boie writes an essay on reading: why it is essential for children, how she herself discovered the world throu... (Automatically generated book description)
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Ulrike von Bülow
Ulrike von Bülow describes five years in New York: life in the East Village, the skyline from the roof, evenings at the baseball, and the in... (Automatically generated book description)
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Mark Seal
Joan Root filmed wildlife in the remotest corners of the world, worked with Bernhard Grzimek, and earned an Oscar nomination. She crossed Af... (Automatically generated book description)
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Uwe Anton
Uwe Anton provides a biographical overview of Stephen King and introduces his most important novels and short stories. Alongside well-resear... (Automatically generated book description)
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William Binney
Theater director Angela Richter conducted in-depth interviews with whistleblowers Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg, William B... (Automatically generated book description)
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Adam Kay
Adam Kay, a former junior doctor, secretly kept a diary throughout his exhausting hospital years. The result is both hilarious and heartbrea... (Automatically generated book description)
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Joscha Barisch
Joscha Barisch traces the key stages of Elon Musk's life and analyzes the principles that enabled his rise. A short guide drawing insights f... (Automatically generated book description)
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Alexandre Dumas
A further edition of Alexandre Dumas' vividly narrated Napoleon biography, making history as readable as a novel. (Automatically generated book description)
