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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama)
Author: C. S. Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in...
Capote: A Biography
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Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus...
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: Winner of the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award 2023
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Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
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Author: Doris Lessing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 "I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands." The experiences absorbed through...
Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters
Author: Rosanna Warren (University of Chicago) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 720 Though less of a household name than his contemporaries in early twentieth century Paris, Jewish homosexual poet Max...
Kahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders
Author: Kahlil G. Gibran Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 A comprehensive illustrated biography of Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction The Prophet. Kahlil...
Shakespeare's Wife
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Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet
Author: Elaine Feinstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century, yet his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy....
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited
Author: Philip Eade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Brisk, lively and wonderfully entertaining' John Banville 'Excellent ... read this book' Literary Review 'The best single-volume life of the author...
The Life of a Long Distance Writer
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I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Author: Miranda Seymour Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best...
This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew
Author: Julia Copus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'An exquisitely told account of the life of a half-forgotten London poet whose work was admired by Hardy, Sassoon and Virginia...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Among the greatest of poets, TS Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives and a church-going...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case
Author: Michael Rosen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Pronounced guilty of libel and sentenced to a year in prison, novelist Emile Zola went on the run. Zola's crime had...
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
Author: Paul Auster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 'Exhilarating.' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 'Sharp-eyed and revealing.' The New Yorker 'Brilliant . . ....
Virginia Woolf
Author: Nigel Nicolson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'You cannot find peace by avoiding life' Virginia Woolf An intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author...
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus...
Virginia Woolf
Author: Nigel Nicolson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'You cannot find peace by avoiding life' Virginia Woolf An intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author...
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Author: Matthew Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The Waste Land is said to be the greatest poem of the age. It is thought to describe the moral decay...
Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars
Author: Daisy Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like...
Vera Brittain: A Life
Author: Mark Bostridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The definitive biography of Vera Brittain, acclaimed author of Testament of Youth. With a new introduction by Mark Bostridge. 'Riveting and...
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers
Author: William Palmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read' NICK COHEN, Critic 'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The revealing of T. S. Eliot's hidden muse - Emily Hale, the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem...
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir
Author: Marina Warner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching...
Orwell's Roses
Author: Rebecca Solnit (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'I loved this book... An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times' - Margaret Atwood Outside my work the thing...
Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars
Author: Daisy Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like...
A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
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Author: Cyrus Grace Dunham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 A "stunning" (Hanif Abdurraqib), "unputdownable" (Mary Karr) meditation on queerness, family, and desire. How do you know if you are...
Henry and Banjo
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Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now,...
Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence
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Author: Frances Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his...
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage...
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
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Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev
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Emperors in Lilliput: Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen Murray-Smith of Overland
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A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846: 'Sizzles and steams . . . Beautifully written.' (The Times)
Author: Francesca Wade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and read...
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
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Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now,...
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
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Author: Lucasta Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short...
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
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Author: Paul Auster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling...
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
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Author: Hilary Spurling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into...
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
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Author: Dorian Lynskey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey's account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory." --George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and...
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage
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House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann
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Author: Evelyn Juers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In 1933, the author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner, Nelly Kroeger, fled Nazi Germany, finding refuge first in...
Patrick White: A Life
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Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautifully told. It is high time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh were once again household names.' - Mail on Sunday...
Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
Author: Thomas Travisano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1 An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James...
The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Biography of Stieg Larsson
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