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Most gripping biographies ever
Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My LifeWill and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life by Dominic Dromgoole
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Will Shakespeare & growing up in the 1980s, & never escaping either
Digging Up the Dead: Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary SurgeonDigging Up the Dead: Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon by Druin Burch
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Revolutionary surgery, radical politics and personal accounts of horrors - both brutal & beautiful
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of GeniusLudwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
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Makes Wittgenstein unexpectedly gripping!
Coleridge - Darker ReflectionsColeridge - Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
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Introduce yourself to the world's greatest talker
Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin)Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin) by Robert Graves
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Relive the Great War in some of the best available company
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt KidThe Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
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Such an easy pleasure to read that the power of it creeps up on you unseen; delightful
William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-slave Trade CampaignerWilliam Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-slave Trade Campaigner by William Hague
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The Abolitionist movement is one of the best bits of British history - Wilberforce drove it
Einstein: His Life and UniverseEinstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
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Encourages you to warm to both the man and his mind
Mandela: A Critical LifeMandela: A Critical Life by Tom Lodge
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A rare man and a rare life
Young StalinYoung Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Equally rare, but of the most different breed possible