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Paddy Mayne: Lt Col Blair 'Paddy' Mayne, 1 SAS Regiment (The true
The definitive biography of Paddy Mayne, and the true story behind the hit TV show SAS Rogue Heroes. 'Paddy' Mayne was one of the most outstanding special forces leaders of...
Whitney Straight: Racing Driver, War Hero, Industrialist - The
The full story of one of the twentieth century's greatest mavericks. Whitney Straight made his own way in life. Born in New York with a silver spoon in his mouth,...
Portrait of a Friendship: The Letters of Barbara Blackman and Judith
A fascinating insider's view of Australia's cultural life from two central figures, and a profoundly moving and inspiring portrait of a friendship. 'The funny bits are the great leavening of...
Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to her Son John
Society darling, actress, wife of key WW2 politician Duff Cooper... Here are Lady Diana Cooper's sparkling letters to her son John Julius The glittering letters of British socialite Lady Diana...
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Harold Larwood's own version of the great 1932-1933 Ashes cricket series, with full scores and annotated photographs from his own collection. A cricket classic, first published in 1933. Harold Larwood...
A Writer at War: Letters and Diaries of Iris Murdoch 1939-45
Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War is a fascinating private memoir of one of the great women writers and thinkers of the 20th century and a remarkable historical document of...
Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956
This comprehensive edition of Sylvia Plath's letters is a work of immense scholarship and care, presenting a complete and historically accurate text of the known and extant letters Plath wrote...
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
Correspondence from over 22 years between two of the twentieth century's greatest writers, reissued in a new jacket look Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were two of the twentieth century's...
Types and Shadows: Diaries 2004-2015
'Roy Strong's diaries are a treasure . . . magnificently readable' THE TIMES 'Essential reading' TATLER 'When it comes to viperish high-society gossip, Roy Strong is in a class of...
Fifteen Rounds a Minute: The Grenadiers at War, August to December
This book, originally published in 1976, is an account of the first five months of the First World War, as seen by members of a battalion of the Grenadier Guards...
Dear Lupin...: Letters to a Wayward Son
Nostalgic, witty and filled with characters and situations that people of all ages will recognise, Dear Lupin is the entire correspondence of a Father to his only son, spanning nearly...
Your Year, Your Version: The Taylor Swift Inspired Guided Journal and
Twelve months, t welve eras: the seasonal journal and planner inspired by Taylor Swift, the perfect gift for Swifties to plan their wildest dreams this year. In this guided journal...
Remembering the Boys: A Collection of Letters, a Gathering of Memories
Remembering the Boys brings to life the correspondence of Western Reserve Academy alumni serving in World War II. In these eloquent letters, most of them written to the Academy's headmaster,...
Winston and Celementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills
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Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly throughout the fifty-seven years of their life together, from the passionate and charming exchanges of their courtship until the year before...
Heysen to Heysen: Selected Letters of Hans Heysen and Nora Heysen
The prominent Australian artist Nora Heysen has been said to have worked in the shadow of her father Hans Heysen, one of Australia's most recognised landscape painters. Letters between the...
Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford
The book titled Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford by the author Nancy Mitford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
"Dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times: The
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In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna. Elias describes the arrangement to his brother Georges as a "functional" marriage. Meanwhile, an intense intellectual love affair develops...
The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
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An engaging, and intimate look at one of the most feared and respected critics of our time. 'Be light, stinging, insolent, and melancholy' were the words hanging over the desk...
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection
Published to co-incide with the pbk of Claire Tomalin's Whitbread Prize-winning biography The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the...
Selected Letters of Rebecca West
From the time that George Bernard Shaw remarked that "Rebecca West could handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely", West's writings and her politics...
Letters to Vera
Vladimir Nabokov's letters to his beloved wife, translated and edited by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Vera Slonim...
Selected Poems and Letters
An essential introduction to one of the most inventive and provocative poets A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and...
Essays and Letters
An excellent companion to our edition of H lderlin's Selected Poems and Fragments, this collection of prose and letters introduces the reader to the man behind the art One of...
Letters 1941-1985
The first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century Italo Calvino, Italy's most important postwar novelist, was also an influential...
George Orwell: A Life in Letters
The first ever paperback publication of Orwell's remarkable letters Personal as well as political, Orwell's letters offer a fascinating window into the mind of a phenomenal man. We are privy...
The Orwell Diaries
Available to a general readership for the first time, Orwell's diaries give a fascinating insight into the mind of one of England's most prominent social commentators George Orwell was an...
A Russian Journal
Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune....
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour
Book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson's descriptions...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American
When Daniel Patrick Moynihan died in 2003 the Economist described him as a philosopher-politician-diplomat who two centuries earlier would not have been out of place among the Founding Fathers. Though...
You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl From Ukraine
***A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*** *** Shortlisted for the Children's Book of the Year: Older Non Fiction The Week Junior Book Awards *** Featured on This Morning, Steph's...
There and Back: Diaries 1999-2009: The brand new volume from the
'A social history of Britain spanning four decades, told with unflagging empathy and wit ' Jonathan Coe, Observer THE FOURTH VOLUME OF MICHAEL PALIN'S BESTSELLING DIARIES There and Back is...
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters
Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame - and scandal - before...
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929
Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents a period of anxious and fast-moving professional recovery and...
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-1922
With the first publication, in this edition, of all the surviving letters of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), readers will for the first time be able to follow the thoughts, ideas and...
The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 2: The Public Years
'All goes well with me - everybody treats me kindly, from the Governor downwards. I hope soon to have writing materials: then I shall write first a book called Introduction...
The Letters of Muriel Spark (Volume 1)
The first of two volumes of the letters of Muriel Spark, one of the greatest and most fascinating writers of the twentieth century. *One of the TLS Books of the...
The Letters of Muriel Spark (Volume 1)
The first of two volumes of the letters of Muriel Spark, one of the greatest and most fascinating writers of the twentieth century. *One of the TLS Books of the...
Letters
The book titled Letters by the author Gustave Flaubert. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998 (Volume 3)
A rollercoaster ride driven by the Palin hallmarks of humour, curiosity and a sense of adventure. Michael Palin was not the BBC's first choice for the travel series AROUND THE...
Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power - 'Riotously candid'
Sunday Times Political Book of the Year A Book of the Year pick in the New Statesman , Financial Times , Telegraph , Guardian , Mail on Sunday and The...
The Parallel Path: Love, Grit and Walking the North
Whatever Jenn Ashworth turns her hand to, I'm there to read it' BENJAMIN MYERS, author of The Offing 'With honesty, humour and determination, Ashworth's journey takes the reader from coast...
Letters of J B Yeats
John Butler Yeats was the father of the poet W.B. Yeats and the painter Jack Yeats. This selection of his letters covers the period 1898 to his death in 1922....
Henry Handel Richardson Vol 1: 1874-1915
Volume 1 of a three volume set containing Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence in its entirety. This three volume set marks the first time any Australian literary writer has had his/her...
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 6, 1934-1936
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 6 (June 1934-June 1936) traces the completion and publication of Hemingway's experimental nonfiction book Green Hills of Africa and work on stories including 'The...
Letters: A New Selection
General and students of nineteenth-century English literature and history.
The Light of Truth
A comprehensive collection of writings from journalist, lecturer, anti-lynching activist, and early civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells. This is the latest addition to the African American classics series edited...
English Journey
'The finest book ever written about England and the English' Stuart Maconie 'J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that...
Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers....