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Writer and peer Daniel Finkelstein narrates his family’s extraordinary story with a mixture of horror and wonderIn this remarkable family memoir, the political journalist and Conservative peer Daniel Finkelstein documents the lives of his parents and...
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A brilliantly funny but deadly serious account of NHS psychiatry in crisisOn his first day as a trainee psychiatrist, Dr Benji Waterhouse –conflict averse, bookish, balding – receives a crash course in martial arts. A brawny ex-policeman with tumes...
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Despite the painter’s lack of ‘epistolary fluency’, this collection of his writings – from drunken interviews to begging letters – offers some insight into his working methods and private lifeFrancis Bacon composed his autobiography in paint, not wor...
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The politician and lawyer on Salman Rushdie’s remarkable new memoir, Manchester’s magnificent music students and powerful depictions of wars both real and imaginedThe human rights lawyer and campaigner Baroness Shami Chakrabarti was born in Kenton, n...