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Maggie O'Farrell 2008

Iris learns that she has a great-aunt who has lived in an institution for sixty years, committed because she would not c…

Maggie O'Farrell 2016

A once famous actress lives hidden in Ireland while her husband tries to hold her and himself together. Maggie O Farrell…

Walter Isaacson 2011

Walter Isaacson spent years talking with Steve Jobs, and with the people who worked alongside him and despaired of him. …

Ashlee Vance 2015

Ashlee Vance's original English biography of Elon Musk: his life from South Africa to the top of the technology world, f…

Dave Pelzer 1995

Dave Pelzer describes the years in which his mother starved him, scalded him and treated him as a thing while sparing hi…

Frank McCourt 1999

Frank McCourt recounts a childhood in Limerick shaped by hunger, damp and a drinking father, and does it with a humour t…