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Biographies

1 Who was revealed to have worried from an early age about his height, the size of his backside and losing his hair?

2 “I met murder on the way, He had a mask like . . .” Which poet wrote these lines about a 19th-century statesman? And who wrote this year’s biography of the statesman?

3 Which autobiographical author claims that there was a lunchtime brothel in the carpet warehouse? At which famous London company?

4 All Roads Now Lead to France was Matthew Hollis’s biography of Edward Thomas. Who was the woman in love with Thomas who went on to find fame in her

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