 | Blood and Sand by Frank Gardner
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 A fascinating tale, made all the more interesting by the fact Frank is a well known journalist. Well written.
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 | Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir by Gore Vidal
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £1.46 Wasn't immediately appealing but, once started, I was hooked. Fascinating and supremley well written
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 | Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography by Sir Richard Branson
Buy used from: £13.75 Not a literary classic but short, to the point, no nonsense, if only we all had the Branson touch
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 | Walking on Water: A Voyage Around Britain and Through Life by Geoff Holt
Buy new: £7.95 / Used from: £1.54 A book like no other. This has to be one of the most unique, most inspirational and most captivating books on the list. With a foreword by Princess Anne and an Afterword by dame Ellen Macarthur
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 | Moab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.68 Definitely one for the Essential 10. Wittily written and a rare insight into this complicated man.
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 | Ernest Shackleton (A & E Biography (Dorling Kindersley)) by George Plimpton
Buy used from: £0.96 The most amazing man, the most amazing story. Every British citizen should be made to read this.
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 | Make Gentle the Life of This World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy by Robert F Kennedy
Buy new: £7.43 / Used from: £5.58 A gread read. He died before I was born but the book lives up to the legend.
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 | Napoleon by F.J. McLynn
Buy new: £11.37 / Used from: £4.64 OK, so he's French, but this is a great piece of work which brings the man to life.
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 | The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis, a Personal Biography by Charlotte Chandler
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £3.49 Another legend but an amazing life story and well written
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 | The Blair Years by Alastair Campbell
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £2.59 I met Alistair Campbell once and I didn't like him. Nor did I care for Blair or his politics. So I surprised myself at my fasciation and interest in this book. I hated myself for liking it.
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