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VIP: Very Interesting People

Pick up someone interesting today

Oxford University Press presents Very Interesting People - a new series of pocket-size biographies featuring Britain's most fascinating and important historical characters.

Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Described by The Times as 'an intellectual wonderland for all scholars and enthusiasts.'

From visionaries, kings, queens, scientists, politicians, writers, and artists, these are the stories of those who have enlightened and enriched history, and ultimately made the world what it is today.

  • Pocket-size biographies: perfect for 21st-century readers and students who need a quick but comprehensive biography of a key figure.
  • VIPs are comprehensive and up-to-date: they cover each life from family and childhood to death with up-to-date bibliographic references for further reading.
  • Written by expert authors: selected for their expertise and ability to communicate to a general audience.
  • Extra information: details of related sound, film, and paper archives, listings of known likenesses of a figure and their location; where known, wealth at death.


William Shakespeare
Peter Holland

23 April 2007 | £4.99 | paper | 160 pages

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Elizabeth I
Patrick Collinson

23 April 2007 | £4.99 | paper | 160 pages

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George III
John Cannon

23 April 2007 | £4.99 | paper | 128 pages

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Isaac Newton
Richard S. Westfall

23 April 2007 | £4.99 | paper | 128 pages

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Charles Darwin
Adrian Desmond, James Moore, and Janet Browne

23 April 2007 | £4.99 | paper | 136 pages

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Benjamin Disraeli
Jonathan Parry

23 April 2007 | £4.99 | paper | 144 pages

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George Eliot
Rosemary Ashton

23 April 2007 | £4.99 | paper | 96 pages

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Christopher Wren
Kerry Downes

23 April 2007 | £4.99 | Paperback | 104 pages

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Charles Dickens
Michael Slater

23 April 2007 | £4.99 | Paperback | 152 pages

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John Ruskin
Robert Hewison

23 April 2007 | £4.99 | Paperback | 136 pages

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