New Biographies
030022379X 
Hardback 
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: You know his work - Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I. But many people don't know the real Oscar Hammerstein II, the man who, more than anyone else, invented the American musical. Among the most commercially successful artists of his time, he was a fighter for social justice who constantly prodded his audiences to be better than they were.
1905662742 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Genesis Publications
Resource type: Physical
Note: As one of the most innovative and remarkable songwriters of the last 50 years, Paul Weller has proved to be the ultimate shapeshifter, moving from The Jam's punk sensibilities to the genre-defying Style Council, and later through a remarkable 30-year solo career. Weller is one of few artists to have attained a UK number one album over five consecutive decades.
1398517267 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Resource type: Physical
Note: LeBron is unquestionably the greatest basketball player of the 21st century. Off the court, LeBron's political activism, outspoken stance on racism and social injustice have helped build a social media presence that includes 117 million followers on Instagram and 51 million followers on Twitter. He is an international brand worth billions of dollar
1915036690 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Whitefox Publishing Ltd
Resource type: Physical
1784744867 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Resource type: Physical
Note: The world can seem strange and lonely when you step away from your family and everything you have tried to call your own. Yet beauty may also appear. In the autumn of 2019 Xiaolu travelled to New York to take up her position as a visiting professor for a year, leaving her child and partner behind in London. The encounter with American culture and people threatens her sense of identity throws her into a crisis.
1474617433 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Resource type: Physical
Note: Born in March 1896, Nancy Cunard was a great beauty, rich, promiscuous, with a mesmeric effect on men. She was also highly intelligent, reading widely and writing poetry. Of Nancy's many affairs the five included in this book are the ones with the American poet Ezra Pound, the novelists Aldous Huxley and Michael Arlen and pianist Henry Crowder; and her lifelong friendship with George Moore, her mother's lover.
1783966998 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson
Resource type: Physical
Note: In the wake of a traumatic lockdown, Nancy Campbell buys an old caravan and drives it into a strip of neglected woodland between a canal and railway. It is the first home she has ever owned. It will not move again. As summer begins, Nancy embraces the challenge of how to live well in this unconventional place.
1399804669 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: John Murray
Resource type: Physical
Note: Ronald Blythe lives at the end of an overgrown farm track deep in the rolling countryside of the Stour Valley, on the border between Suffolk and Essex. His home is Bottengoms Farm, a sturdy yeoman's house once owned by the artist John Nash. From here, Blythe has spent almost half a century observing the slow turn of the agricultural year, the church year and village life in a series of rich, lyrical rural diaries.
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0008610045 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: William Collins
Resource type: Physical
Note: Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. Originally published: London: HarperPress, 2007
1472284852 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Tinder Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes. Her haphazard mother rarely cooked, forbade Christmas and birthdays, worked as a cleaner, nurse and childminder sometimes all at once and believed the world would end in 1975. Meanwhile, her father stuffed barrels full of goodies for his relatives in the Caribbean, cooked elaborate meals
1800814798 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Profile Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Then, just in time, before I swung the spade again, I saw, right by the blade and camouflaged by the leaves on the ground, a magpie chick. It squatted belligerently, peering up at me with miniature magpie fury. George. When Frieda Hughes moved to the depths of the Welsh countryside, she was expecting to take on a few projects.
071128668X 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Little Charles always knew that, one day, he would have a big job to do. As the son of Queen Elizabeth II, he was a prince, and in the future, he was to inherit the throne of the United Kingdom. As a young man, he developed a passion for one cause; the environment. Charles recognised that plastics and pollutants were causing harm to Earth, and as the Prince of Wales, he spent all his efforts championing climate justice and sustainability.
1399706470 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Coronet
Resource type: Physical
Note: Natasha Carthew grew up in rural poverty in Cornwall, battling limited opportunities, precarious resources, escalating property prices, isolation and a community marked by the ravages of inequality. Her world existed alongside the postcard picture Cornwall, where wealth and privilege converged on sandy beaches and expensive second homes.
1789295130 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Limited
Resource type: Physical
Note: This in-depth biography details Harry Styles' life so far. From his childhood and his journey to fame on the 'X-Factor' to releasing solo music and becoming fashion royalty, it gets you closer to Harry than ever before. Originally published: 2021
024154405X 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Resource type: Physical
Note: Noreen Masud has always loved flatlands. Her earliest memory is of a wide, flat field glimpsed from the back seat of her father's car in Lahore. As an adult in Britain she's discovered many more flat landscapes to love: Orford Ness, Morecambe Bay, the Cambridgeshire Fens, Orkney. These bare, haunted expanses remind her of the flat place inside herself; the place created by trauma.
1399610015 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Seven Dials
Resource type: Physical
Note: A teenage snooker prodigy, Ronnie O'Sullivan turned professional with the highest of expectations. This pressure, together with a challenging personal life, catapulted Ronnie into a life of excess and addiction. Whilst he appeared at the height of the game to spectators, these were the moments when he felt at his lowest.
1472282647 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Tinder Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Outside, the Sky is Blue' is a beautifully drawn, heart-breaking yet also joyful memoir of growing up, of living with mental ill health and cancer, and of working out what it means to be in a family, what it means to lose a family - and what's left when you're the last one left. When Christina Patterson's brother Tom died very suddenly, she faced the harrowing task of clearing out his house.
180096059X 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Monoray
Resource type: Physical
Note: A born storyteller, Eddie Piller takes us evocatively into a world of scooters, clothes, and music. We run with the crowd to decaying seaside towns, East End backstreet boozers and sweaty teenage gigs, all fizzing with an uncontainable excitement and often exploding into violence. Once mod touched your soul it changed the way you looked at life, unexpectedly broadening your horizons.
0241554896 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Penguin Life
Resource type: Physical
Note: Checking into a psychiatric institution wasn't exactly on Ruby Wax's agenda for 2022 - writing about it wasn't either, but here we are. These days, trying to stay sane in a completely chaotic world makes life incredibly difficult, especially if you're struggling with your mental health.
057137462X 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: Brian Eno is best remembered for the work he did with rock group Roxy Music. His latest project is Generative Music, a computer disc featuring 12 self-generating pieces of music. This diary follows a year in Eno's life. Originally published: 1996