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by Benvenuto Cellini
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2004
Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith - a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Paris. He was also a murderer and a braggart, a shameless adventurer who at...
Africa’s Billionaires
Inspirational stories from the continent’s wealthiest people
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
A masterclass in becoming a wealth-generating entrepreneur! Do you have what it takes to become a billionaire? Written by the founder of Forbes Africa, this is a masterclass on how the brightest and most successful entrepreneurs across Africa made their fortunes, as well as a timely look at how the...
The FitzPatrick Tapes
The Rise and Fall of One Man, One Bank, and One Country
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
The FitzPatrick Tapes: The sensational story of the man and the bank that brought Ireland low
One day in May 2009, Sean FitzPatrick - the disgraced former chief executive and chairman of Anglo Irish Bank - sat down to lunch in a Holiday Inn in Dublin. Across the table sat Tom Lyons, a business...
Michael O'Leary
Turbulent Times for the Man Who Made Ryanair
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Financial Times Business Book of the Month
September 2017. Ryanair cancels over 700,000 bookings and its powerful PR juggernaut comes shuddering to a halt. For once, the airline's aggressive and flamboyant CEO, Michael O'Leary, is contrite and apologetic.
A month later Ryanair announces...
The Trust Manifesto
What you Need to do to Create a Better Internet
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2019
From the moment we wake up and unlock our phones, we're producing data. We offer up our unique fingerprint to the online world, scan our route to work, listen to a guided meditation or favourite playlist, slide money around, share documents and update our social media accounts. We reach for our phones...
Let It Go
My Extraordinary Story - From Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
A moving memoir from a woman who made a fortune in a man's world and then gave it all away...soon to be turned into a film
In 1962, Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley created a software company when the concept of software barely existed. Freelance Programmers employed women to work on complex projects...
by Valerie Grove
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Kaye Webb, a journalist with no publishing experience, burst into the world of children's books in 1961 and changed the face of children's publishing forever. Her child-like enthusiasm and shrewd business mind led her to become Puffin's most successful editor and the genius behind the Puffin Club,...
by Morrissey
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
“Spend the day in bed” with Autobiography by Morrissey, whose new album Low in High School is out November 17th
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982–1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six...
Composed
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriter
For thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence.
Now,...
Rat Girl
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The founder of a cult rock band shares her outrageous tale of growing up much faster than planned.
In 1985, Kristin Hersh was just starting to find her place in the world. After leaving home at the age of fifteen, the precocious child of unconventional hippies had enrolled in college while...
The Inner Voice
The Making of a Singer
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
The fascinating personal story of one of the most celebrated talents in today’s music scene
The star of the Metropolitan Opera's recent revival of Dvorak's Rusalka, soprano Renée Fleming brings a consummately beautiful voice, striking interpretive talents, and compelling artistry to bear...
Elvis Presley
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
A vibrant, sympathetic portrait of the once and future king of rock ?n? roll by the award-winning author of Shiloh and In Country
To this clear-eyed portrait of the first rock ?n? roll superstar, Bobbie Ann Mason brings a novelist?s insight and the empathy of a fellow Southerner who, from the...
Porcelain
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
From one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor, and unlikely success out of the NYC club scene of the late '80s and '90s.
There were many reasons...
Mozart
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Eminent historian Paul Johnson dazzles with a rich, succinct portrait of Mozart and his music
As he’s done in Napoleon, Churchill, Jesus, and Darwin, acclaimed historian and author Paul Johnson here offers a concise, illuminating biography of Mozart. Johnson’s focus is on the music—Mozart’s...