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Christmas Wish List: Biographies and Memoirs

Historian Kathryn Hughes selects the top biographies and memoirs of the year for Front Row's Christmas wish list:

- Common People: The History of an English Family, by Alison Light
- H is for Hawk, by Helen MacDonald
- John Wayne: the Life and Legend, by Scott Eyman
- An Encyclopaedia of Myself, by Jonathan Meades
- Those Wild Wyndhams, by Claudia Renton

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