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Biographical fiction
Biographical fiction
Brand: Canongate Books
INTRODUCTION BY RODDY DOYLE'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' LEONARD COHENCharles Bukowski is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. The autobiographical Ham on Rye is widely considered his finest novel. A classic o..
13.86£
Fictionalized memoir, personal essay, or post-blog meanderings in the picaresque tradition? Poet and novelist Owen Hill shares the experiences of a union organizer, an art lover, and an appreciator of the obscure and the famous in books and music, a..
27.28£
Brand: Random House
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to Frankenstein, a tale of two literary legends-a mother and daughter-discovering each other and finding themselves along the way, from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Marie Thornton. 1792. As a chi..
17.01£
Brand: Random House
** Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award **The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy - a personal and powerful story of violence.I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, at around four in the morning. He approa..
12.47£
Brand: US Naval Institute Press
Honoring the Enemy is the story of how American sailors, Marines, and soldiers landed in eastern Cuba in 1898 and, against daunting odds, fought their way to victory. Capt. Peter Wake, USN, is a veteran of Office of Naval Intelligence operations ins..
24.96£
Brand: Dundurn Press
Shortlisted for the 2022 ReLit AwardA professor of English literature writes the autobiography of his fantasy alter-ego, wanton movie star Gloria Grahame, while his own sexual desires go frustrated.Denton Moulton — a shy, effeminate male professor —..
20.67£
Brand: St. Martins Publishing Group
A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt's first love, by Mary Calvi, author of Dear George, Dear Mary. Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee--many of them never before..
28.68£
Brand: Random House
I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate comes from a need to breathe. The hope of a better life is stronger than any other feeling. My mother decided it was better to know I was in danger far from her; but on the way to a different future, th..
13.65£
In this collection, actor and seanchaì (traditional storyteller) Éamon Kelly's finest stories are collected for the first time: stories of the real Kerry and the magical past of the Gobán Saor, the heartbreak of emigration, the stations, the priests..
16.49£
In the turbulent times of a young man's high school experience, one must find his way, make himself known to his peers, and most of all, establish himself in the oftentimes hostile world he is trapped in. JFK & the Muckers of Choate takes a look at ..
30.66£
Brand: Bod Third Party Titles
Karl Gottlieb von Windisch's Briefe über den Schachspieler des Herrn von Kempelen ist ein unveränderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1783. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie F..
16.49£
An American student in 1970s Kyoto rambles among the city's beauties and traditions, learning as he goes.ISBN: 9781611720747Publisher: Stone Bridge PressImprint: Stone Bridge PressPublished date: 05 Jul 2022DEWEY: 813.6DEWEY edition: 23Language: Eng..
20.69£
Brand: New York Review Books
An NYRB Classics OriginalWhen the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre. Unfolding through a series of letters written by an unn..
18.48£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
A companion piece to the captivating memoir Giving Up the Ghost by the Man Booker-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a ..
12.92£
Life and remains of Robert Lee, D.D., F.R.S.E. - Minister of the Church and parish of Old Greyfriars is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as resea..
37.41£
Set in Iowa and Minnesota in the 60s and 70s, Little Miseries is a Midwestern Gothic where sometimes the misery is just that--little--and sometimes it is epic and yawning, capable of swallowing every childhood memory. There are the miseries the Cast..
27.02£
"Read this book immediately if you like truth, drugs, generation gaps, guitars, and lifelong quests for freedom and kicks." --Craig Finn, The Hold Steady Thomas Ransom, born to a severely dysfunctional southern family transplanted to New York City,..
15.51£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, sat on a busy street corner with a sky-blue Olivetti typewriter and asked the world a simple, direct question: Can you please tell me a love story?A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of 30 year..
12.46£
Brand: Pan Macmillan
He became a bestselling novelist while still in college, immediately famous and wealthy. He watched his insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box. He was lost in a haze of booze, drugs and vilification. Then he was given ..
13.76£
Brand: Bod Third Party Titles
Es ist die Lebensgeschichte eines Mannes namens Cedric, ein streng katholisch erzogener Junge. Seine Kindheit in einem katholischen Heim ist geprägt von Missbrauchserfahrungen durch die älteren Jungen sowie einem Priester. In seinen Jugendjahren ist..
36.68£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
From the author of Caroline, a revealing retelling of Louisa May Alcott's beloved Little Women, from the perspective of Margaret "Marmee" March, about the larger real-world challenges behind the cozy domestic concerns cherished by generations of rea..
30.01£
Brand: Gale
"In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor's A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, Annabel Abbs, the award-winning author of The Joyce Girl, returns with the brilliant real-life story of Eliza Acton and her assistant as they revolut..
40.51£
Brand: PRH Grupo Editorial
Edición revisada de la elogiada novela en que Fuguet busca a su tìo perdido en Estados Unidos.Por años Alberto Fuguet escuchó relatos difusos o esquivos acerca del paradero de su tìo Carlos, que un dìa desapareció sin más del ámbito familiar. Con el..
27.99£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel: a Kite Runner for Palestine 'One of the most thought-provoking books I've read ... written with passion and honesty, and poetry' Daily Mail 'The writer's pain - and the beauty of her prose - are very real..
13.68£