Joan: The Mysterious Life of the Heretic Who Became a Saint, Paperback - Donald Spoto

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It is 1965, and Swinging London is coming into its prime years. Amid the color and chaos is a boy sporting drainpipe jeans, a devoted fan of The Wh...

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At the age of 19, scared and illiterate, James Pennington escaped from slavery in 1827 and soon became one of the leading voices against slavery pr...

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Publisher: Soho PressAuthor(s): Grant FarleyNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 209 x 40Cover type: Paperback / softbackRed...

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A portrait of Robert Mugabe, a man whose once brilliant career has ruined Zimbabwe and cast shame on the African continent. It charts Mugabe's grad...

This biography draws on a series of unpublished interviews and offers a startling and intitmate portrait of one of the most glamourous icons of the...

The heart-warming, moving story of an ordinary Welsh woman who dreamed of training a racehorse and Dream Alliance, the horse who defied the odds to...

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The 'Greatest Black Briton in History' triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. She became an independent 'doctress' combining the herbal r...

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