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John Forster's original three-volume text is abridged and brought to life with the addition of illuminating extracts from Dickens' own work and from recent criticism, biography and fiction. It is...

"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 Wilde...

Joyce's life followed the classic 'flight into exile' path taken by many creative writers in search of a broader vision. His fight against Irish parochial prejudices and censoriousness, his self-imposed...

A frank and revealing portrait of Arthur Miller, as viewed through the lens of his relationship with Marilyn Monroe. The Genius and the Goddess, based on Jeffrey Meyers' long friendship...

Shakespeare: The Illustrated Edition is an exquisitely illustrated, updated edition of Bill Bryson's bestselling biography of William Shakespeare that takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and...

There s never been a period when Shakespeare was out of fashion. In his lifetime he was incredibly successful, and soon after his death his works were published to the...

Brings to life the world of Samuel Pepys with five walks through London. Samuel Pepys, the seventeenth century's best-known diarist, walked around London for miles, chronicling these walks in his...

We think of Voltaire as the epitome of the Enlightenment; in his own time he was also the most famous and controversial figure in Europe. Davidson tells the whole, rich...

Dan Brown is already one of the bestselling authors that the world has ever seen.Due to the success of his gripping novels Digital Fortress, Deception Point, Angels and Demons, The...

One of the great mysteries in the life of E. M. Forster (1879-1970) is why, after the publication of "A Passage to India" in 1924, he never published another novel...

A most anticipated literary biography... The author of the much-loved My Brilliant Career had a remarkable career of her own. Stella Miles Franklin was born in the Australian bush and,...

In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet's...

A fascinating look at the life of the author who created such modern classics as "Carrie," "IT, "and "The Shining. "One of the most prolific and popular authors in the...

The book titled Lillian Hellman: Her Legend and Her Legacy by the author Carl Rollyson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Reissued to celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens's birth, The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens (formerly The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens) draws together an unparalleled diversity of information on...

Jane Austen traces the author's life and times, her personal relationships, the attitudes and customs of the time that shaped her and were in turn shaped by her work, and...

The moving story of the life and work of novelist Virginia Woolf, revealed through her own letters to those closest to her. Virginia Woolf is considered by many to be...

Oscar Wilde once wrote "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train." This book is your opportunity to discover a compendium...

"Readable and reliable . . . [Gilmour's] assessment of the political background of Kipling's writings is exemplary." --Earl L. Dachslager, Houston Chronicle David Gilmour's superbly nuanced biography of Rudyard Kipling,...

The International Bestselling memoir from award-winning author Amos Oz, "one of Isreal's most prolific writers and respected intellectuals" ( The New York Times ), about his turbulent upbringing in the...

In the summer of 1894 Oscar Wilde spent eight weeks in Worthing, and it was during this family holiday that he wrote his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. The...

Philip Roth one of the most renowned writers of his generation hardly needs introduction. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus , which won the National Book Award, to his Pulitzer Prize-winning...

If man could see us as we really are, they would be amazed," wrote Charlotte Bronte, the outwardly conventional parson's daughter who had rarely met any men bryond those of...

'This book is a glowing achievement by one of the best essayists of her generation' Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff 'Witty, fresh and full of life' Liv Little 'I can't recommend more highly......

Oscar Wilde once wrote "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train." This book is your opportunity to discover a compendium...

'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage 'Walker writes beautifully about the push and pull of...

Only edition in print On 17th September 1820, accompanied by his friend Joseph Severn, John Keats left London for Italy on board the Maria Crowther in a desperate bid to...

From Loki to Thor, Ragnarok to Beowulf A gripping and truly mesmerising delve into the Norse legends From bestselling books to blockbusting Hollywood movies, the myths of the Scandinavian gods...

'This book is a glowing achievement by one of the best essayists of her generation' Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff 'Witty, fresh and full of life' Liv Little 'I can't recommend more highly......

Isaiah Berlin was one of the great thinkers and most electrifying speakers of his time. A magnetic public intellectual and beacon of liberal philosophy, he gained astonishing first-hand experience of...

'The first biography of Thom Gunn, and likely the definitive one. [...] Nott's book is one of the best versions of a gay relationship conducted over this half century.' Colm...

The Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty...

'The most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for a decade...' - Financial Times 'To be savoured for its vivid and sympathetic recreation of the...

At the time of his death, Louis Auchincloss--enemy of bores, self-pity, and gossip less than fresh--had just finished taking on a subject he had long avoided: himself . His memoir...

An elegant and accessible introduction to the life and works of one of England's greatest and most popular novelists "I want to salute Fiona Stafford's brilliant [book]. . . ....

A gripping new approach to the Nuremberg Trial, told through the stories of the many great writers who came to witness it Nuremberg, 1945. As the trials of Nazi war...

Aileen Palmer poet, translator, political activist, adventurer was the daughter of two writers prominent in Australian literature in the first half of the twentieth century. Vance and Nettie Palmer were...

Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people-and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the...

'Charles Dickens' is the definitive illustrated guide to the man and his works. It follows Dickens from early childhood, looking at how he triumphed to become the greatest celebrity of...

A biography exploring the early years of the twentieth century's greatest poet. Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot,...

When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives...

Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos were friends; writers-in-arms, though they were polar opposites in terms of personality - Dos Passos' calm contrasting with Hemingway's machismo. They arrived in Spain...

Walking in the Luxembourg Garden, exchanging letters about enigmatic diva Eleonora Duse or an irascible Tolstoy: Rainer Maria Rilke's French translator Maurice Betz enjoyed a rare intimacy with the great...

A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones 'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all' Thomas...

News cowboys - it was the nickname the reporters and camerapeople at Seven Network's Los Angeles bureau jokingly gave themselves as they headed off on assignments, not knowing what to...

News cowboys - it was the nickname the reporters and camerapeople at Seven Network's Los Angeles bureau jokingly gave themselves as they headed off on assignments, not knowing what to...

An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Biography category "An...

Hilary Davidson delves into the clothing of one of the world's great authors, providing unique and intimate insight into her everyday life and material world What did Jane Austen wear?...