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'The greatest writer of his time.' (George Orwell) The author of 20 much-loved novels and novellas, Charles Dickens combined humour and pathos to explore Victorian society in all its shades....

'I wanted to climb inside this book and live there' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE 'This witty, fascinating book is a delight. Read it' MIRIAM MARGOLYES 'Superb, sparky and reflective' The Spectator 'Gender...

As the streetlamps flickered out and lights were obscured behind brown-paper screens, a subdued atmosphere took hold of London in 1939. Cloistered in pubs and gloomy sitting rooms, London's young...

From his early years with his loving Jewish family to the horrors of Auschwitz to his life as a Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Elie Wiesel tells his story. Passionate and poignant,...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen's tale of growing up, squirming in his own uber-sensitive skin, from a "small and fundamentally...

FUN FOR DETECTIVE NOVEL FANS - the whole family will love this high-stakes game featuring 64 characters and clues from Agatha Christie's novels PLAY AND LEARN - this board game...

Hunter S. Thompson is best remembered today as a caricature: drug-addled, sharp-witted, and passionate; played with bowlegged aplomb by Johnny Depp; memorialized as a Doonesbury character. In all this entertainment,...

A joyful, rule-breaking experiment in biography, which celebrates 'country life' as a state of mind 1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and...

An exceptional new biography that shows how George Eliot wrestled with the question of marriage, in art and life When she was in her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into...

From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behind the creation of another masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment In the summer of...

A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a...

The gripping story of Australia's first female crime writer and her career-criminal son When Mary Fortune arrived in Melbourne with her infant son in 1855, she was determined to reinvent...

Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock has captivated and perplexed generations. But the woman behind the novel is as much an enigma as the disappearance of the fictitious schoolgirls and...

A unique behind-the-scenes story of love, sisterhood and the trail-blazing Australian poet Dorothy Porter Dorothy Porter was one of Australia's most charismatic and courageous literary figures. Achieving broader fame through...

A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. 'Destined to become a new classic' Chris Kraus A...

Part biography, part self-help, an original, funny and moving portrait of Montaigne, Renaissance nobleman and essayist. How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to...

Now with a new chapter, On Being Ninety- a memoir of ageing, memory, and time, written by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers at the age of eighty 'The...

Tom Wolfe's genre-defining ride through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published...

The Sunday Times no. 1 memoir now in paperback The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of...

Part biography, part detective story- the extraordinary life of the eccentric writer Frederick Baron Corvo One summer afternoon A.J.A. Symons is handed a peculiar novel called Hadrian the Seventh and,...

'Engrossing ... Carlisle has pulled off the feat of writing a truly Kierkegaardian biography of Kierkegaard' (Julian Baggini, Financial Times) S ren Kierkegaard is now celebrated as the father of...

'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among...

A TOP 12 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMESTHE BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2024'This book is magic. It's all I ever needed' LENA...

She was 'amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle'. She was a whirlwind. She created around her the atmosphere of a Court at which her friends...

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Whatever happened to him actually outshines anything I've had my James Bond do. - Ian Fleming When the real James Bond published his 1936 landmark book, Birds of the West...

'America's Literary Legends' is a concise, yet truly distinctive and comprehensive review of 50 authors and poets who shaped American literature from the 1600s through the mid-twentieth century. Fully grounded...

Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dream world - from which...

The captivating letters by the most idiosyncratic, witty and irrepressible of the notorious Mitford sisters.Here's what readers are saying:'It is both laugh-out-loud funny and enthralling' 'A wonderful record of a...

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The remarkable life of Australia's greatest storyteller 'A detailed and sympathetic account ... fascinating' - The AustralianA.B. 'Banjo' Paterson is rightly recognised as Australia's greatest storyteller and most celebrated poet,...

'Outside my work the thing I care most about is gardening' wrote George Orwell in 1940. Inspired by her encounter with the surviving roses that Orwell planted in his cottage...

From the Jazz Age through the Kennedy administration, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. A champion of the young Ernest Hemingway, a loyal friend...

Orwell: A Man of Our Time offers a vivid portrait of the man behind the writings, and places him and his work at the centre of the current political landscape....

A rollicking, hilarious stagecoach journey across the Great Plains and over the Rocky Mountains was just the beginning of a nearly six-year-long odyssey that took Samuel Clemens from St. Joseph,...

A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature.Mikhail Sholokhov is arguably one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize...

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was the greatest writer in a Britain that ruled the largest empire the world has known, yet he was always a controversial figure, as deeply hated as...

The acclaimed first English-language biography of the great European novelist and journalist, Joseph Roth, author of The Radetzky March, a writer who captured life in Europe between the wars like...

In the long run, we're all dead. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been...

Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This science fiction epic combines politics human evolution and ecology and has captured the imagination of generations of readers. It is one of the most...

Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. Ever since he took the theatre of Elizabethan...

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 Hardy...

From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. She...

An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for...

With his recent theatrical success, THE PLAY WHAT I WROTE, Braben shows that the audience for the spirit of the incomparable Eric and Ernie is just as alive today as...

Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no biography can.The letters begin in the poet's schooldays and end just...

'This is the biography - truthful, sympathetic and thorough - that Coward deserves'DAILY TELEGRAPHThe voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in its holder, remain unmistakable. There is rarely a week when...

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...