Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young
July 24th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Benjamin Disraeli was the most gifted parliamentarian of the nineteenth century. A superb orator,
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Horace and Me by Harry Eyres
July 18th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Horace lived at a pivotal moment. Rome
Girl Least Likely To: 30 Years of Fashion, Fasting and Fleet Street by Liz Jones
July 13th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Liz Jones is Fashion Editor of the Daily Mail, and a columnist for
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life by Jonathan Sperber
July 5th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: For nearly a century, Karl Marx has been imprisoned by “isms”, misinterpreted through the
Bitter Experience has Taught Me: Adventures in Love, Loss and Penury by Nicholas Lezard
June 25th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: In 2007, Nicholas Lezard was kicked out of his home, for reasons we need
Dear Lumpy: Letters to a Disobedient Daughter by Louise Mortimer and Roger Mortimer
June 14th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Dearest Lumpy, I hope you are plump and well. Your mother bashed her car
The North (And Almost Everything In It) by Paul Morley
June 14th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Paul Morley grew up in Reddish, less than five miles from Manchester and even
Flappers: Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell
June 12th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Glamorized, mythologized and demonized — the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in
Strictly Ann: The Autobiography by Ann Widdecombe
June 11th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: From her early family life in Singapore and her convent school days to her
Margaret Thatcher, The Authorised Biography Volume One: Not for Turning by Charles Moore
April 30th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: The first volume of Charles Moore’s authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving
Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
April 24th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
Anyone who’s read the classic, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, knows Maya Angelou was raised by her paternal
Maggie & Me by Damian Barr
April 14th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: It’s 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows
Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon
March 5th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: In this study of family, Andrew Solomon tells
Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea
March 5th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: In the eyes of many, Benjamin Britten was
A Prince Among Stones by Prince Rupert Loewenstein
February 19th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: In 1968 Mick Jagger couldn’t understand why the
Give Me Everything You Have by James Lasdun
February 19th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: A true story of obsessive love turning to
Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
February 7th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: On 14 February 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist
A Shed of One’s Own by Marcus Berkmann
February 7th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: For many men, middle age arrives too fast and without due warning. One day
Strindberg: A Life by Sue Prideaux
February 7th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist, and hellraiser – August Strindberg was all these,
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
February 3rd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
| Press reviews | Buy the book | Have your say | Blurb: Paula Byrne explores the forces that shaped the
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