Most gripping biographies ever

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Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life
1.  Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life by Dominic Dromgoole
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  "Will Shakespeare & growing up in the 1980s, & never escaping either"
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Digging Up the Dead: Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon
2.  Digging Up the Dead: Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon by Druin Burch
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  "Revolutionary surgery, radical politics and personal accounts of horrors - both brutal & beautiful"
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
3.  Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
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  "Makes Wittgenstein unexpectedly gripping!"
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Coleridge - Darker Reflections
4.  Coleridge - Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
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  "Introduce yourself to the world's greatest talker"
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Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin)
5.  Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin) by Robert Graves
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  "Relive the Great War in some of the best available company"
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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
6.  The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
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  "Such an easy pleasure to read that the power of it creeps up on you unseen; delightful"
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William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner
7.  William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by William Hague
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  "The Abolitionist movement is one of the best bits of British history - Wilberforce drove it"
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
8.  Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
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  "Encourages you to warm to both the man and his mind"
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Mandela: A Critical Life
9.  Mandela: A Critical Life by Tom Lodge
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  "A rare man and a rare life"
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Young Stalin
10.  Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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  "Equally rare, but of the most different breed possible"
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