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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...
Victor Hugo
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The Imago: E. L. Grant Watson and Australia
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White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
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Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot
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Lawson
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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...
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...
Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev
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The Writer's Journey: In the Footsteps of the Literary Greats: Volume 1
Author: Travis Elborough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous authors on the journeys which inspired their greatest works in...
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022
Author: Katherine Rundell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing....
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...
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...
Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians
Author: Justin Martin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set...
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home
Author: Alexander Wolff (author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and exceptional literary journey.' - Philippe Sands In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander...
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...
The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir
Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...
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...
Bruce Chatwin
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Why Dante Matters: An Intelligent Person's Guide
Author: Professor John Took Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a poet who, as T. S. Eliot...
Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
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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...
C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
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A Voyage Round John Mortimer
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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...
George Mackay Brown
Author: Maggie Fergusson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide...
Young Eliot: From St. Louis to the Waste Land
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Author: Robert Crawford (University of St Andrews) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 A groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century's most important poets On the fiftieth anniversary...
The Lady with the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire
Author: Laura Claridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The untold story of Blanche Knopf, the singular woman who helped define American literature Left off her company's fifth anniversary tribute...
Gamelife: A Memoir
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Author: Michael W Clune (Case Western Reserve University, Ohio) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In telling the story of his youth through seven computer games, critically acclaimed author Michael...
Patrick White: A Life
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Graham Greene:: The Enemy Within
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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 Life of Kingsley Amis
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The Washerwoman's Dream: The Extraordinary Life of Winifred Steger 1882-1981
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Reading My Father: A Memoir
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The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Biography of Stieg Larsson
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Salinger
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Dearest Munx
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The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
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Lew Wallace: An Autobiography V2
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This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew
Author: Julia Copus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The British poet Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers, including...