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Author_Eve Claxton
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bruce dickinson autobiography
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david leigh
dick van dyke
dr phil
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frankie boyle
gene kelly
graham nash
helen mirren
hollywood
italo calvino
jeremy vine
larry david
margaret macmillan
mike leigh
miles davis
movies
music biographies
my life
natalie wood
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nonfiction books
pam ayres
richard coles
richard davis
sandy denny
seamus heaney
simon baker
taylor swift
the diary of two nobodies
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tom baker
Product details
- ISBN 9780091908461
- Weight: 638g
- Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 07 Feb 2008
- Publisher: Ebury Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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From childhood through to adulthood - if not necessarily maturity - The Book of Life offers the literary journal of a lifetime, in the company of the most fascinating and talented figures in history.
From Alan Bennett's wartime childhood in Yorkshire to Mahatma Gandhi's experiment with cigarettes; Katherine Hepburn on her first acting job aged 21 and Primo Levi on being captured by Fascist militia at the same age; Darwin on his lifelong love - his work - and Nelson Mandela on his release from prison aged 71 ... life and living in all its manifold glories is represented.
With insights that encompass generations and continents, this is a uniquely enjoyable immersion in some of the world's best, and most personal, writing.
Eve Claxton was born in London and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She has written for a variety of publications on both sides of the Atlantic including Vogue, The Tatler and the Guardian. This is her first anthology.
