New Biographies
0306902796 
Hardback 
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Hachette Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the 'Saxophone Colossus,' he is widely acknowledged as the greatest living jazz improviser, having won Grammys, the Austrian Cross of Honor, Sweden's Polar Music Prize and a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. He is one of our last links to the golden age of jazz.
0349015953 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Virago
Resource type: Physical
Note: A powerful and urgent memoir by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja - a remarkable woman who went from being a beloved star on Chinese children's TV to a journalist whose reporting on the oppression of her people led to her entire extended family being imprisoned.
9355231628 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: Tamil
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Kalachuvadu Publications
Resource type: Physical
Note: Biography - Ilaiyaraaja (R. Gnanathesikan, known as Ilaiyaraaja, is an Indian film composer, conductor-arranger, singer and lyricist who works in the Indian film industry, predominantly in Tamil cinema in addition to Telugu cinema. He is a nominated Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha since July 2022)
1787387917 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Resource type: Physical
1855145774 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Charles III: The Making of a King' highlights the most important portraits of King Charles III from the National Portrait Gallery's Collection, from the beautiful portraits of His Majesty with his mother, Elizabeth II, to works depicting Charles' sons and wider family.
1474612806 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Resource type: Physical
Note: The voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in its holder, remain unmistakable. There is rarely a week when one of 'Private Lives', 'Hay Fever', and 'Blithe Spirit' is not in production somewhere in the world. Phrases from Noel Coward's songs - 'Mad About The Boy', 'Mad Dogs and Englishman' - are forever lodged in the public consciousness.
024164898X 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Resource type: Physical
Note: Written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Campion.
1398519928 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Scribner UK
Resource type: Physical
Note: The remarkable story of how Oksana Masters triumphed over extraordinary challenges to become a Paralympic champion and an inspiration to so many.
1408716739 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Abacus
Resource type: Physical
Note: Britain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar. Sara Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman travel writer. Glowing Still is the story of her travelling life - what is 'important, revealing or funny' - in a notoriously testosterone-laden field.
1529135877 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Century
Resource type: Physical
Note: For decades, Ronnie Archer-Morgan has brought to life the fascinating, often surprising backstories behind our most cherished heirlooms and household objects on the Antiques Roadshow. Now, he tells his own unlikely story. Born in the fifties to a Sierra Leonean mother battling mental health problems, Ronnie spent his childhood in and out of care.
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1529149967 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Ebury Spotlight
Resource type: Physical
Note: Averil Mansfield established herself as a pioneer in every sense of the word when she qualified as a surgeon in the early 1970s. At the time just two per cent of her colleagues were female, and she was often met with surprise, bordering on disbelief and amusement, when telling people what she did. But time and again, Averil proved herself more than capable of the role which had been her greatest dream since the age of eight.
0008524467 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: HQ
Resource type: Physical
Note: Behind Paris Hilton's meteoric rise from Upper West Side club kid to household name lies her self-proclaimed 'superpower' of ADHD and a hidden history that traumatised and defined her. Shocking, funny and surprisingly profound, this is the deeply personal memoir of the ultimate It Girl and a stunning inside view of a pop culture phenomenon.
1914197690 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Reach Sport
Resource type: Physical
1800181752 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Unbound
Resource type: Physical
Note: The much-loved author Montague Rhodes James is best known today for his ghost stories. Their popularity has kept them in print since the first collection was issued in 1931, and they've earned a cult following. But for all this literary success, his lifetime's correspondence has remained inaccessible in a Cambridge University archive - until now.
1804270539 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Resource type: Physical
1788841700 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: ACC Art Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Stepping bravely into the cyclone of 21st-century fashions, Harry Styles is more than weathering the storm.
0711271011 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Little Neil's dreams took flight when he rode on his first airplane as a child. After studying aeronautical engineering and time spent in the navy, he became a pilot. From there, he was selected to take a trip to where no human had gone before - the moon!
0008510520 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: The Borough Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Blake Morrison has lost a sister and a half-sister in recent years, and both are the subjects of this remarkable and heart-breaking memoir, along with sibling relationships in literature and those of literary figures.
1529370345 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Sceptre
Resource type: Physical
Note: On the outside, Ben Short looks like he has it all - a successful career in advertising, a flat in a trendy area of London, an expensive motorbike. But inside, he's a wreck. Years of suffering with an anxiety disorder and depression have broken him, and his 'creative' career has become sterile and suffocating. A drastic change is needed.
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1398504432 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Resource type: Physical
Note: In Search of Mary Seacole is a superb and revealing biography that explores her remarkable achievements and unique status as an icon of the 19th century, but also corrects some of the myths that have grown around her life and career. Having been raised in Jamaica and worked in Panama, Mary Seacole came to England in the 1850s and volunteered to helper.
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