In pictures: Biographer Tom Bower and the subjects of his books

Bower has written unauthorised biographies of several major public figures - not always to their satisfaction. Here he is along with some of those whose lives he has chronicled
  
  


Tom Bower
Tom Bower Photograph: Guardian
Richard Desmond
Richard Desmond. Bower has written a biography of the Daily Express owner, provisionally entitled Rough Trader, that has yet to be published Photograph: Getty
Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel
Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel: a paragraph in Bower's book about the jailed former Daily Telegraph owner and his wife, Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge, prompted a libel action from Richard Desmond Photograph: Getty
Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown: Bower was heavily critical of the then chancellor’s economic record in a biography first published when Tony Blair was prime minister Photograph: Reuters
Geoffrey Robinson
Geoffrey Robinson: former paymaster-general was focused on by Bower in his book The Paymaster: Geoffrey Robinson, Maxwell and New Labour Photograph: Press Association
The Paymaster: Geoffrey Robinson, Maxwell and New Labour
The Paymaster: Geoffrey Robinson, Maxwell and New Labour Photograph: Public domain
Richard Branson
Richard Branson. He described Bower's biography Branson thus: 'What I have read has offended me on every single level ... it is a foul, foul piece of work from the first words to the last - really rotten, nasty stuff.' Photograph: Reuters
Branson
Branson, the book that upset Branson Photograph: Public domain
Robert Maxwell
Robert Maxwell was the subject of Bower's biography Maxwell: the Outsider Photograph: Rex Features
Tiny Rowland
Tiny Rowland, who Bower wrote about in his 1993 book Tiny Rowland: a Rebel Tycoon Photograph: Press Association
Mohamed Al Fayed
Mohamed Al Fayed. The Guardian described Bower's Fayed: the Unauthorized Biography as 'an unforgettable demolition job' Photograph: Press Association
Fayed: The Unauthorized Biography
Fayed: The Unauthorized Biography Photograph: Public domain
 

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