Biography
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The first paperbacks of the new year offer rich pickings, from Barnes’s meditation on Shostakovitch to Jefferson’s memoir of growing up in the US’s black elite
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David Bowie’s early golden years are vibrantly retold by French cartoonist Nejib in a bold biography that will delight fans old and new
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There is a thrilling majesty to Oscar Wilde’s tormented tour de force written as he prepared for release from Reading jail
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One of Ireland’s most enduring female authors of the 20th century is given a shrewd epitaph, by her daughter
Lenin the Dictator by Victor Sebestyen review – the godfather of post-truth