Category:Reviewed by John Van der Kiste
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The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 431 total.
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- J.M. Coetzee: A life in writing by J C Kannemeyer
- James Dean: Rebel Life by John Howlett
- James Ravilious: A Life by Robin Ravilious
- Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility by Marian Veevers
- Jazz by Gary Giddins and Scott Deveaux
- John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
- John le Carre: The Biography by Adam Sisman
- John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman
- Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon by Kate Williams
- Jumpin' Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock'n'Roll Underworld by Keiron Pim
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- Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr by Linda Porter
- Killer Stuff and Tons of Money by Maureen Stanton
- The King is Dead by Suzannah Lipscomb
- King's Mistress, Queen's Servant: Henrietta Howard by Tracy Borman
- The King's Pearl: Henry VIII and His Daughter Mary by Melita Thomas
- The Kingmaker's Sisters: Six Powerful Women in the Wars of the Roses by David Baldwin
- Kingmakers: How Power in England Was Won and Lost on the Welsh Frontier by Timothy Venning
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- Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank Sinatra by Barbara Sinatra
- Lancelot 'Capability' Brown: The Omnipotent Magician 1716-1783 by Jane Brown
- The Last Days of Richard III by John Ashdown-Hill
- The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter by Matthew Dennison
- Lawson Lies Still in the Thames: The Extraordinary Life of Vice-Admiral Sir John Lawson by Gill Blanchard
- Let's Make Lots of Money: My Life as the Biggest Man in Pop by Tom Watkins
- The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956 by Samuel Beckett, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Lois More Overbeck, George Craig and Dan Gunn
- Letters To Vicky by Andrew Roberts (Editor)
- Life by Keith Richards
- Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford The Biography by Laura Thompson
- A Life in the Day: Memories of Sixties London, Lots of Writing, The Beatles and my Beloved Wife by Hunter Davies
- The Life of Handel by Victor Schoelcher (Author), Anton de Moresco (Editor), James Lowe (Translator)
- Life on Air by David Attenborough
- Live At the Brixton Academy: A riotous life in the music business by Simon Parkes and J S Rafaeli
- The Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton
- London Bridge in America: The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing by Travis Elborough
- London in the 18th century by Jerry White
- London Under by Peter Ackroyd
- London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550-1750 by Robert O Bucholz and Joseph P Ward
- London: The Concise Biography by Peter Ackroyd
- Look Back in Hunger by Jo Brand
- The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox by Alison Weir
- Lost Voices from the Titanic: The Definitive Oral History by Nick Barratt
- Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of missing works of art and literature by Rick Gekoski
- Love Affair: The Memoir of a Forbidden Father-daughter Relationship by Leslie Kenton
- The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev by Simon Morrison
- Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns
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- Macaulay: Britain's Liberal Imperialist by Zareer Masani
- Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology by Paul Oppenheimer
- Made to last: The story of Britain's best-known shoe firm by Mark Palmer
- The Madness of Queen Maria: The Remarkable Life of Maria I of Portugal by Jenifer Roberts
- The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Case of the Brides in the Bath by Jane Robins
- The Making of Home by Judith Flanders
- The Making of Modern Britain: From Queen Victoria to V.E. Day by Andrew Marr
- The Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history by Richard Girling
- The Man Who Sold The World: David Bowie And The 1970s by Peter Doggett
- Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower by Susan Higginbotham
- Margrave of the Marshes by John Peel and Sheila Ravenscroft
- Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox by Lois Banner
- Marty Feldman: The Biography of a Comedy Legend by Robert Ross
- Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, first Queen of England by Tracy Borman
- Matt Monro: The Singer's Singer by Michele Monro
- Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies by Ian Mortimer
- Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England by James Evans
- MOD: From Bebop to Britpop, Britain's Biggest Youth Movement by Richard Weight
- Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin
- Moonwalk by Michael Jackson
- Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance by Daisy Hay
- Mr Gig by Nige Tassell
- Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl: The Story of Tony and Lindsay Wilson by Lindsay Reade
- Mrs Holmes: Murder, Kidnap and the True Story of an Extraordinary Lady Detective by Brad Ricca
- The Murder of the Romanovs by Andrew Cook
- Murders of London: In the steps of the capital's killers by David Long
- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
- My Father's Places: A portrait of childhood by Dylan Thomas' daughter by Aeronwy Thomas
- My Life by David Jason
- My Story, My Life: Val Doonican - The Complete Autobiography by Val Doonican
- The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley
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- Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor by Adrian Fort
- Natalie and Romaine by Diana Souhami
- Newcomers' Lives: The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times by Peter Unwin (editor)
- Nijinsky by Lucy Moore
- Nine Lives of William Shakespeare by Graham Holderness
- No Off Switch: The Autobiography by Andy Kershaw
- No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-War Britain by Paul Addison
- The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris
- The Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror's Subjugation of England by Teresa Cole
- The Norwood Author - Arthur Conan Doyle and the Norwood Years (1891 - 1894) by Alistair Duncan
- Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis
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- Obama Music by Bonnie Greer
- Of the People, By the People: A New History of Democracy by Roger Osborne
- On the Trail of the Yorks by Kristie Dean
- Opera by Robert Cannon
- Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band by Simon Callow
- Oscar's Books by Thomas Wright
- Owen Tudor: Founding Father of the Tudor Dynasty by Terry Breverton
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- Patrick Bronte: Father of Genius by Dudley Green
- Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper
- Penny Loaves and Butter Cheap: Britain in 1846 by Stephen Bates
- Pevsner: The Early Life: Germany and Art by Stephen Games
- Phil Daniels: Class Actor by Phil Daniels
- The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
- Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown by John Campbell
- Pitt the Elder: Man of War by Edward Pearce
- Poe by Peter Ackroyd
- The Poisoner: The Life and Crimes of Victorian England's Most Notorious Doctor by Stephen Bates
- Poptastic! My Life in Radio by Tony Blackburn
- Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford by Donald Spoto
- Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never Was by Sean Cunningham
- The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart by Sarah Fraser
- The Private Life of Edward IV by John Ashdown-Hill
- The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe
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- Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford
- The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family by Helen Rappaport
- Rasputin: A Short Life by Frances Welch
- Ray Davies: A Complicated Life by Johnny Rogan
- Realm Divided: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England by Dan Jones
- The Recent Past by James Ravilious
- Redeeming Features by Nicky Haslam
- The Reformation in 100 Facts by Kathleen Chater
- The Reluctant Tommy: An Extraordinary Memoir of the First World War by Ronald Skirth and Duncan Barrett
- The Remarkable Lives of Bill Deedes by Stephen Robinson
- Renishaw Hall: the story of the Sitwells by Desmond Seward
- The Richard Beckinsale Story by David Clayton
- The Road Not Taken: How Britain narrowly missed a revolution by Frank McLynn
- Robin Hood by John Matthews
- Rockers and Rollers: An Automotive Autobiography by Brian Johnson
- Rod: The autobiography by Rod Stewart
- Ronnie by Ronnie Wood
- Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs by John Lydon
- Route 19 Revisited: The Clash and London Calling by Marcus Gray
- Roxy: The Band That Invented an Era by Michael Bracewell
- Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life by John Campbell
- A Royal Affair: George III and His Troublesome Siblings by Stella Tillyard
- Running the Show: Governors of the British Empire 1857-1912 by Stephanie Williams
- Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth by Nigel Jones
- Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East by Martin Sixsmith
- The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead
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- Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition by Eamon Duffy
- Sarah Valentine, No Great Expectations Part 1 by Philip Valentine Coates
- The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles by Benedict Gummer
- Screwing Up by Mark Oaten
- The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings
- The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery by Catherine Bailey
- The Servants' Story: Managing a Great Country House by Pamela Sambrook
- Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard
- The Seymours of Wolf Hall: A Tudor Family Story by David Loades
- Sir Henry Neville Was Shakespeare: The Evidence by John Casson and William D Rubinstein
- The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII: The Women's Stories by Amy Licence
- The Sixties by Jenny Diski
- The Smell of the Continent by Richard Mullen and James Munson
- So Great a Prince: England and the Accession of Henry VIII by Lauren Johnson
- Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
- The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit by John Seabrook
- Sounds like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital by Lloyd Bradley
- Speak for Britain!: A New History of the Labour Party by Martin Pugh
- The Speed of Sound by Thomas Dolby
- Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies by Donald Spoto
- The Spirit of Venice: From Marco Polo to Casanova by Paul Strathern
- The Stamp King by G. De Beauregard and H. De Gorsse
- Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2011 by Hugh Jefferies
- Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2012 by Hugh Jefferies
- Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2012: Commonwealth and Empire Stamps 1840 - 1970 by Hugh Jefferies
- Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Commonwealth & Empire Stamps 1840-1970 2011 by Hugh Jefferies
- Steaming to Victory: How Britain's Railways Won the War by Michael Williams
- Still on the Road: Songs of Bob Dylan, 1974-2008 by Clinton Heylin
- The Story of Music by Howard Goodall
- Strange Meetings: The Lives of the Poets of the Great War by Harry Ricketts
- Strange Victoriana: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors by Jan Bondeson
- Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan by D R Thorpe
- The Surprising Life of Constance Spry by Sue Shephard
- Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade by Sian Rees
- Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd: Dark Globe by Julian Palacios
- Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman
- Sylvia Pankhurst: The Rebellious Suffragette by Shirley Harrison
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- Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Teenage Revolution: Growing Up in the 80s by Alan Davies
- The Temptation Of Elizabeth Tudor by Elizabeth Norton
- Tennyson: To strive, to seek, to find by John Batchelor
- Thackeray by D J Taylor
- Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin
- The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer
- To Save a People by Alex Kershaw
- Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett
- Tom Jones - The Life by Sean Smith
- Totally Wired: Post-punk Interviews and Overviews by Simon Reynolds
- Tower by Nigel Jones
- Tragic Magic: The Life of Traffic's Chris Wood by Dan Ropek
- The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss by Nick Coleman
- The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami
- Trigger: The Hunt for Gavrilo Princip - the Assassin who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher
- The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink by Olivia Laing
- Tudor: The Family Story by Leanda de Lisle
- The Tudors: History of a Dynasty by David Loades
- The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey by Gillian Tindall
- Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music by David N Meyer