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Candid on short-staffing and underfunding, ministerial memoir Zero omits the healthcare that happens in the community.
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The joyless rise of Anna Wintour
Amy Odell’s new account of the iron-fisted Vogue editor’s ascent struggles to find the human being behind the shades.
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The rise and fall of the literary bloke
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It’s his life: the secluded world of Talk Talk frontman Mark Hollis
Uneasy with his fame and fiercely private, the post-rock pioneer left behind a musical legacy of extraordinary beauty.
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From the NS archive: What remains of Aneurin Bevan
26 October 1962: Prompted by Michael Foot’s biography of Aneurin Bevan, John Freeman gathers his thoughts about the father of…
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Elton John’s Me: a bracingly open and spectacularly funny autobiography
Dignity is thrillingly cast aside in this riotously entertaining book full of premium celebrity tittle-tattle.
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Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val d’Orcia Caroline Moorehead John Murray, 361pp, £22 ISBN 071
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