While browsing around on Amazon a couple of days ago, a couple of chess books popped up in the "recommended for you" list. Both are about Soviet grandmasters, and neither features any chess (or any to speak of).
The first that showed up was Team Tal: An Inside Story, by Valentin Kirillov. It's a short book that looks like a collection of vignettes about the late great Mikhail Tal, and it looks like a nice book for his fans.
The second book is about David Bronstein, another great player who came very close to becoming the world champion, but unlike Tal, he didn't succeed in doing so. While Bronstein was a brilliant player who lived a fascinating life, one could detect sadness and a touch of bitterness in his later works (e.g. Secret Notes). But in Genna Sosonko's The Rise and Fall of David Bronstein, it seems that the bitterness was almost all-consuming, at least from his late middle age onward. It's hard to tell from the excerpt Amazon makes available how pervasive Bronstein's negativity is in the text, so if any of you have read the book, please offer your thoughts about it in the comments. (Likewise about the Tal book, if you've read that one.)
At any rate, both books look interesting, at least to middle-agers like me who grew up at a time when Tal and Bronstein were chess heroes to many young players.