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Biography: literary
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPERPicked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the ObserverA Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest noveli..
15.76£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781635575118Publisher: BLOOMSBURYImprint: Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublished date: 05 Apr 2022Language: EnglishWeight: 68gHeight: 208mmWidth: 140mmSpine width: 10mm..
17.85£
Brand: Random House
No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns and no biographer has captured his energy, brilliance and radicalism as well as Robert Crawford does in The Bard. To his international admirers Burns was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to..
24.56£
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
Intimate and richly detailed, The Beauty of Living begins with Cummings's Cambridge, Massachusetts upbringing and his relationship with his socially progressive but domestically domineering father. It follows Cummings through his undergraduate expe..
36.86£
Brand: Sandstone Press Ltd
Naomi Mitchison was born towards the end of the nineteenth century and grew into an era of change, political, social and sexual. All of these she embraced and influenced in the course of her long life. She became a major novelist of the 20th century..
14.93£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
'A deeply felt, and genuinely touching, book' Esmé Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias'Spellbinding and propulsive' Leni Zeumas, author of Red Clocks'The Crying Book is a rigorous and urgent work but it reads like an intimate gift' K..
12.41£
Brand: Princeton University Press
Henry David Thoreau is generally remembered as the author of Walden and "Civil Disobedience," a recluse of the woods and a political protester who once went to jail. To his contemporaries he was a minor disciple of Emerson; he has since joined the r..
64.28£ 65.96£
Brand: Aurum
Wyl Menmuir's The Draw of the Sea is a beautifully written and deeply moving portrait of the Cornish Coast and the people who make their livings there, examining the ephemeral but universal pull the sea holds over the human imagination.'A beautiful ..
22.90£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
The Fires at Max Gate, Professor Dante Blythe's biography of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), would not be the last word on the Victorian novelist. There was always room for more speculation. Yet, any material evidence of controversy was burned in the auth..
15.69£
Brand: Orion
Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of r..
31.82£
The Fortunes of Francis Barber The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson's Heir
Brand: Yale University Press
The story of the extraordinary relationship between Francis Barber, a former slave, and Samuel Johnson, England's most distinguished man of letters"A remarkable work of detection, a biography of a black Briton from the eighteenth century that brings..
16.81£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARIn the vein of the Costa-winning Dadland, with the biographical elements of H is for Hawk, The Fragments of my Father is a powerful and poignant memoir about parents and children, freedom and responsibility, madness a..
13.93£
ISBN: 9781800197251Publisher: BookoutureImprint: Thread BooksPublished date: 07 Apr 2022Language: EnglishWeight: 281gHeight: 198mmWidth: 129mmSpine width: 16mm..
18.04£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
Among the greatest of poets, T. S. Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives and a church-going companion. This presentation concealed a life-long love for an American: Emily Hale, a drama teacher to whom he w..
31.69£
Brand: Batsford Books
A beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen.It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author are all of a piece, and nowhere is this more evident to the lovers of her novels than in the pa..
22.57£
Brand: Batsford Books
"I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do anything one does. I lived on honeycomb." Oscar WildeAlthough it is over 120 years since his infamous trial for indecency, Oscar Wilde has never he..
22.62£
"The nearest thing to an autobiography Irving has written . . . worth saving and savoring."--Seattle Times Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is John Irving's candid memoir of his twin c..
19.63£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
T. S. Eliot once spoke of a lifetime burning in every moment. He had the mind to conceive a perfect life, and he also had the honesty to admit he could not meet it.'He was a man of extremes whose deep flaws and high virtues were interfused,' writes ..
19.41£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
Critically acclaimed, award-winning biography of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and the brilliant group of writers to come out of Oxford during the Second World War.C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and their friends were a regular feature of the Oxford scenery in ..
13.36£
Brand: Random House
WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD NBCC AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE 2017 SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, Spectator and ObserverAngela C..
15.80£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin is the acclaimed story of Nelly Ternan and Charles DickensWinner of the NCR Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize'This is the story of someone who - almost - wasn't there; who..
15.75£
Brand: Duckworth Books
Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the greatest British novelists and philosophers of the twentieth century. She read philosophy at Oxford where she met and later married John Bayley, a literary critic and fellow novelist. So began a forty-yea..
36.63£
Brand: Princeton University Press
In this major biography, Catherine Peters explores the complicated life of Wilkie Collins, the greatest of the Victorian "Sensation" novelists and author of the famous Woman in White and The Moonstone. An intimate of Dickens and of the Pre-Raphaelit..
36.81£
Brand: Random House
#4 on The New York Times' list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 YearsThe New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation"Wickedly funny and always movingly illumi..
20.80£