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Virginia Woolf, Hilary Mantel and Prince Harry, we learn from A Voyage Around the Queen (Fourth Estate, £25), have each ...

This picture book biography shares about the life of Mary ... every word and avoid many spellings of the same word. It was a ...

While the 650 pages in between document the main events of her life, the book is not strictly a biography. Best described as a case study of the national consciousness, it might be filed under ...

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There have been hundreds of books written about Marilyn Monroe ... had the odds stacked against her. Spoto’s biography is possibly the best: capturing the horrific origins of her early ...

This year’s very best biographies and memoirs certainly cover some varied terrain, emotionally and otherwise. Fans of literary biographies have been treated to books providing enlightening new ...