Biographical Books

 

The Girl in the Green Jumper

Renske Mann’s life with her artist husband Cyril Mann

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This highly illustrated art book combines an intimate, revealing biography, social history and explanation of modern art movements. It traces the development of one of our most significant modern artists who at the same time has experienced considerable success in the commercial world.  Yet Alex’s story is full of struggle, restlessness and extreme risks taken in pursuit of his art.

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Buy from Quartet Ladies of the Street

This book is a celebration of the pioneer and leading women of Fleet Street, the courageous spirits who paved the way for current and future generations of female journalists. The book records the outstanding contribution made by these women, and in particular, in their bravery in writing candidly and honestly about subjects that had never been covered before – at least in the public prints – and who brought into being a whole new style of personal, intimate journalism that is now being avidly copied by today’s male journalists.

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Buy from Amazon Michael née Laura The story of the world's first female-to-male transsexual

Oxford Blue, garage hand, medical student, philanthropist, ship’s doctor, prolific author, heir to a baronetcy and ordained Buddhist; the subject of this biography was all of these, but most extraordinary of all, Michael Dillon was born female.

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