New Biographies
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.
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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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!
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.
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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1035401428 
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Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Headline
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Note: Charlotte Crosby is one of the UK's most beloved reality TV stars, an accomplished presenter, an award-winning entrepreneurial businesswoman and now a first-time expectant mum. Here in 'Me, Myself and Mini Me' Charlotte will talk us through the next stage of her journey, from her single days and meeting her partner Jake, to the moment she found out she was pregnant.
152939449X 
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Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Sceptre
Resource type: Physical
Note: Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world. In this captivating memoir, Melvyn Bragg recalls growing up in the Cumbrian market town of Wigton, from his early childhood during the war to the moment he had to decide between staying on or spreading his wings.
1399408399 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
Resource type: Physical
Note: In this touching but also profound memoir, Field explains two key factors in his upbringing - the poverty of his own childhood and the deep and lasting effect of his Christian socialism, as exemplified in the writings of F. D. Maurice and William Temple. Field has spent his adult life fighting against poverty in Britain, through parliament and through his strong personal influence.
1510230033 
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Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Resource type: Physical
Note: Anne Frank was an ordinary girl living in extraordinary times. Forced to go into hiding to escape the Nazis' persecution of Jews in World War II, Anne kept a diary that would become one of the most famous books in the world. Meet one of history's most inspiring figures in this beautifully-illustrated guide to her amazing life.
0241637988 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Ladybird Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Learn all about the Queen's early childhood, coronation, family life, legacy and the way she shaped the modern monarchy for an astonishing 70 years. This title also features fascinating facts about the number of Prime Ministers and leaders the Queen met, the countries she visited, her Jubilee celebrations and more.
1398324205 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Rising Stars
Resource type: Physical
Note: Black history is not just history - it is the history of people left out of the history books. But this book is different! In this book, we're going to meet 15 amazing Black women. Some were pioneers of the past - and some are doing incredible things today! Learn about Mary Prince, the first Black woman to publish her life story; Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
0241532310 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Resource type: Physical
Note: Let me ask you a question: How many Black people can you name from our history? Mary Seacole? Ira Aldridge? George Bridgetower? Pablo Fanque? Walter Tull? Have you heard of these people? Yes? That's great! But if you haven't, don't worry, you're not alone, which is why I'm so excited to tell you all about them. Because the people in this book should by totally famous.
1526306441 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Wayland
Resource type: Physical
Note: This fascinating biography for children aged 7-11 tells the story of Charles' life, from his birth at Buckingham Palace to his archaeology degree from Cambridge University, his work as a Naval Officer, his marriage to Diana Spencer and the birth of his two sons, his extensive charitable work with The Princes Trust, his marriage to Camilla, now Queen.
0571362893 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: Stephen Hough is indisputably one of the world's leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards. This memoir recounts his unconventional coming-of-age story, from his beginnings in an unmusical home in Cheshire to the main stage of Carnegie Hall in New York aged 21. We read of his early love-affair with the piano which curdled, after a teenage nervous breakdown and failure at school.
1398500402 
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Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Gallery UK
Resource type: Physical
Note: After a wild decade of hedonistic city life that veered violently into trauma, Lucy Holden was thrown back down the ladder to her parents' house in a pandemic which paused the parties and forced her to ask herself how she'd become who she'd become? Grown-up, broken-down, completely lost, then locked-in - Lucy realises she can't make it up as she goes along forever and instead has to confront the darkness she's been running from her entire adult life.
1399602829 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Seven Dials
Resource type: Physical
Note: In December 2020, while the world was gripped with news of an imminent third lockdown, Scott Mitchell was visiting the care home where his partner and wife of 27 years - Dame Barbara Windsor - was being looked after. At the age of 83, after a career spanning seven decades and a seven-year battle with the debilitating effects of dementia, she was slipping away.
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0711270899 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: As a kid, Laverne felt different. Even though she felt like a girl, she wasn't allowed to live her life as a girl. But she loved dancing and acting, and felt like she could be her true self under the spotlights on stage. After school, she moved to New York City to study ballet, and pursued acting.
0711270775 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Florence Nightingale is widely regarded as the founder of modern nursing. Growing up in an upper-class family, it was expected that Florence would find a husband and live a life of luxury - but that kind of life wasn't for her. Her calling was caring for the sick and the poor, so she followed her passion with her whole heart and trained to be a nur