New Biographies
028108761X 
Hardback 
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Resource type: Physical
0300248059 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Resource type: Physical
1838232966 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Morgan Lawrence Publishing Services
Resource type: Physical
1802797181 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Welbeck
Resource type: Physical
Note: Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this fascinating and revelatory new book will look at the fraught relationship (and fiery rivalry) between King Charles and Prince Andrew.
1399613324 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Seven Dials
Resource type: Physical
Note: In 2019, Sarah and her family upped sticks and moved to the West Country to embark upon a new way of life. It wasn't without its challenges, as Sarah embarked on transforming a semi-derelict former dairy farm, surrounded by 220 acres of farmland, into the house of her family's dreams - a carbon-neutral home set in a rural idyll.
0571370586 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: As dawn breaks on the farm, Helen Rebanks makes a mug of tea, relishing the few minutes of quiet before the house stirs. Within the hour the sounds of her husband, James, and their four children will fill the kitchen. There are also six sheepdogs, two ponies, 20 chickens, 50 cattle and 500 sheep to care for. Helen is a farmer's wife.
1911709194 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Torva
Resource type: Physical
Note: A candid and unfiltered take on some of the most challenging topics that define our times, 'That Peckham Boy' is a personal manifesto exploring what it means to be young, Black and poor in the city.
0857528807 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Doubleday
Resource type: Physical
Note: At age eleven, Sola Mahfouz was told she could no longer attend school. The Taliban threatened that any girl who dared to continue their education would have acid thrown in the face, be kidnapped, or worse. Confined to the walls of her home, Sola watched as the few freedoms of childhood were stripped away.
1804191493 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Kyle Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Well-known as the third-series winner of 'The Great British Bake Off' and runner up of 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2021 with his same-sex dancing partner Johannes Radebe, John Whaite's personal story is a complicated narrative that embraces coming out, his ongoing body dysmorphia and bulimia as well as mental health challenges and a changing relationship.
1788707796 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Nine Eight Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Kate Bush: the subject of murmured legend and one of the most idiosyncratic musicians of the modern era. Comprising fifty chapters or 'visions', 'The Big Sky' is a multi-faceted biography of this famously elusive figure, viewing her life and work from fresh and illuminating angles.
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1399066951 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Air World
Resource type: Physical
Note: James Stewart was already a Hollywood star when the United States went to war in December 1941. Having received an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1940 for his role in 'The Philadelphia Story', he had become a familiar face to movie goers by the time that the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbor.
0008541442 
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Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: HarperNorth
Resource type: Physical
Note: Here is the harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded. Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the 'socialist miracle' to flee famine and dictatorship.
1911709321 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Torva
Resource type: Physical
Note: Dawn Butler is the trailblazing Labour MP for Brent Central, best known for speaking truth to power. In 2021, she was famously ejected from the House of Commons and threatened with police for calling Boris Johnson a liar.
1914451066 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Mardle
Resource type: Physical
1529151090 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Hutchinson Heinemann
Resource type: Physical
Note: In this warm, thought-provoking and often hilarious memoir, Lottie Jackson reflects on her experiences of living with disability: from the difficulties of going shopping on a mobility scooter, to the headache of defining oneself on a tick-box form, and from the indignities of the so-called easy-pull tights aid to the intense pleasure of finally swapping a hospital gown for a slinky dress.
1398502812 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Resource type: Physical
Note: Based on more than a hundred interviews with key figures around him, this is the definitive account of the prime minister's rise to the top and how he has stayed there, as told by the writer who understands him best. Originally published: 2022
1250276217 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Resource type: Physical
0750996706 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: The History Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'You Dirty Old Man!' is a definitive account of one of Britain's most loved and complex character actors, Wilfrid Brambell. It uncovers a life that was far from happy and content as perhaps it should have been. Despite being one of the stars of 'Steptoe and Son', which at its peak attracted 28 million viewers and made household names of him
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1526794225 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pen & Sword History
Resource type: Physical
Note: The wife of King Henry I and the mother of the Empress Maud is a woman and a Queen forgotten to history. She is frequently conflated with her daughter or her mother-in-law. She was born the daughter of the King of Scotland and an Anglo-Saxon princess. Her name was Edith, but her name was changed to Matilda at the time of her marriage.
0750999705 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: The History Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: In 1601, as the reign of Elizabeth I drew to a close, the civil lawyer Thomas Wilson identified the prevailing uncertainty over the English succession: 'upon whose head it will fall is by many doubted'.