 | Frost in May (Virago modern classics) by Antonia White
Buy new: £16.29 / Used from: £0.01 A little girl in a strict Catholic school. So much possibility for heresy but does she manage to avoid it? Read it and see.
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 | Melanie Pluckrose Effect (Puffin Books) by Roger Burt
Buy used from: £0.01 True to life in many ways. All about girls growing up to realise they can be themselves. Much better than it sounds!
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 | Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £3.88 / Used from: £0.01 First Bill Bryson I read. Interesting to see our English quirks described so accurately.
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 | Hollywood Divas: The Good, the Bad and the Fabulous by James Robert Parish
Buy used from: £14.88 If you think you have problems, read about these little ladies and you'll never feel so bad again.
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 | The Hollywood Book of Death: The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of Over 125 American Movie and TV Idols - From Rudolph Valentino and Clara Bow to James ... Monroe to River Phoenix and Phil Hartman by James Robert Parish
Buy new: £5.65 / Used from: £4.00 Morbidly fascinating. For those who ever wondered what became of your favourite film star.
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 | The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood by Diana McLellan
Buy used from: £16.59 Could have been gossipy but instead is fascinating and informative, though not to everyone's taste.
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 | Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud by Shaun Considine
Buy used from: £0.15 Two leading ladies and one BIG feud. Obviously neither thought there was room on screen for both of them.
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 | Liza Minnelli: Divinely Decadent by Sarah Gallick
Well, it was accurate until they split... A good insight into a sad and often crazy life.
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 | Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland by Gerald Clarke
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £1.19 Just as mad a life as her daughter Liza Minnelli, this is one of the better biographies about Judy Garland's short and drug-addled life.
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 | Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
Buy used from: £1.88 Shows Joan Crawford away from the spotlight and boy, is she in need of some therapy!
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 | The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Perennial Classic.) by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
Buy used from: £25.07 Hard to read but a piece of history that can't be forgotton.
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 | River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
Buy used from: £3.00 Interesting view of modern China, one you don't often see.
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