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Hazzard and Harrower: The letters
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Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer
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Among Others: Friendships and Encounters
It's the other people around you, says Michael Frayn, who make you what you are. So he would like to say a brief word, looking back on life from his...
The Writing School: A memoir
'Fascinating, hugely entertaining, instructive in the best sense. I always thought that writing could not be taught, only reading, but this book made me reconsider. I read it in one...
Based on a True Story
From poker to poetry, poisoners to princes, opera to the Oscars, Shakespeare to Olivier, Mozart to Murdoch, Anthony Holden seems to have rolled many writers' lives into one. Author of...
The Writing School: A memoir
'Fascinating, hugely entertaining, instructive in the best sense. I always thought that writing could not be taught, only reading, but this book made me reconsider. I read it in one...
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
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A Private History of Awe
An original and searching memoir from "one of America's finest essayists" (Phillip Lopate) When Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and...
Mom and Me and Mom
'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter...
Granta 104: Fathers The Men Who Made Us
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The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Literature of Pedestrianism
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Gather Together In My Name
Maya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she...
To The One I Love The Best
Ludwig Bemelmans came to the California home of famed interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl, for cocktails. By the end of the night, he was firmly established as a...
Bear Woman: The brand-new memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling
For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lisa Taddeo and the essays of Zadie Smith, Bear Woman is a beautifully wrought memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authorsA beautifully written and astonishing...
Gather Together In My Name
The sequel to I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a...
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's...
Motherwell: A Girlhood
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The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir in Correspondence
This astonishing memoir of a childhood lived in extreme poverty in Latin America was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nine years after the...
My Prizes: An Accounting
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All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's...
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman'...
The Rules Do Not Apply
'Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book' David Sedaris'I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate...
All Things Consoled
Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Non-fictionA poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about the shift from being a daughter to a guardian and caregiver, by...
Hungry Heart: A Story of Food and Love: The Times Food Book of the
Award-winning food writer Clare Finney presents a passionate, heartfelt exploration of the intertwining influences of food and love throughout her life in this brilliant and moving memoir What does it...
All Things Consoled
Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Non-fictionA poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about the shift from being a daughter to a guardian and caregiver, by...
Playboy: 'An essential read' - Joelle Taylor, T.S. Eliot Prize- [...]
At the age of forty-three, the narrator abandons her marriage, her apartment and her successful legal career as a public defender to re-emerge as an out lesbian and a writer.In...
Playboy: 'An essential read' - Joelle Taylor, T.S. Eliot Prize- [...]
At the age of forty-three, the narrator abandons her marriage, her apartment and her successful legal career as a public defender to re-emerge as an out lesbian and a writer.In...
In My Own Time: Thoughts and Afterthoughts
For the past four years Jane Miller, author of CRAZY AGE: THOUGHTS ON BEING OLD, has been writing a column for an American magazine called In These Times. Her beautifully...
Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One [...]
'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary ReviewKenneth Rose was one of the...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87
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The Selected Letters of John Cage
This selection of over five hundred letters gives us the life of John Cage with all the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important and groundbreaking composer...
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir
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F. Scott, Ernest And Me
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In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood
Author: Sir Andrew MotionFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 198mm, 269g, 336 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2007Written from a teenage child's point of view, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement...
Winter Journal
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Motherwell: A Girlhood
Author: Deborah Orr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Raw, compelling, wise and tender' Dolly Alderton 'MOTHERWELL is razor-sharp, fearless and wonderful' Adam Kay 'Utterly unflinching and staggeringly good, both...
Fishing in the Styx: Text Classics
Author: Ruth ParkFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 196mm, 372g, 400 pagesPublished: Text Publishing, Australia, 2019Following on from A Fence around the Cuckoo, this is the second volume of autobiography by one...
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Author: Franz KafkaFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 214mm, 635g, 704 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and...
Going Solo
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Roald Dahl's canon of family stories and poetry with collectable new covers featuring Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and archive material provided...
My Accidental Career
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Novelist as a Vocation: An exploration of a writer's life from the Sunday Times bestselling author
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. A unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In...
Hazzard and Harrower: The letters
Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began...
Translating Myself and Others
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects...
Among Others: Friendships and Encounters
Author: Michael Frayn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 It's the other people around you, says Michael Frayn, who make you what you are. So he would like to say...
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
Author: Professor Aaron Sachs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 472 Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history-the novelist and...
What Days Are For
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Tell Me Good Things: On Love, Death and Marriage
Author: Mr James Runcie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'A tender memoir of the challenges of bereavement ... I closed this book wishing I'd met her - but feeling...
Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises
Author: A. N. Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Here at last is the story of one of the leading contemporary critics, literary and otherwise, who has become celebrated...