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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...
Edith Wharton
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Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist
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Colette's France: Her Life and Loves
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Chasing Science: Science as a Spectator Sport
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Wodehouse: A Life
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The Singular Mark Twain: 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...
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...
Soseki: Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist
Author: John Nathan (Takashima Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the father of the modern novel...
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...
The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das
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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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Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
Author: Jason McBride Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 "It's shocking to learn that this is McBride's first book...Eat Your Mind does everything a good biography should and more" -Los...
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...
Zola and the Victorians: Censorship in the Age of Hypocrisy
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Charles Dickens
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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 . . ....
James and Nora
Author: Edna O'Brien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 It was June 10th, Barnacle Day. He saw her in Nassau Street and they stopped to talk. She thought his blue...
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...
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
Author: Michelle Dean Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'This is such a great idea for a book, and Michelle Dean carries...
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...
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
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American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light
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Isaac B. Singer: A Life
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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'...
Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Loves
Author: John Sutherland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A brilliant biography - John Sutherland has brought Monica Jones to life as she deserves.' Claire Tomalin 'Eye-opening... in this account...
Edith Sitwell: Avant garde poet, English genius
Author: Richard Greene Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 For the better part of forty years, Edith Sitwell's poetry has been neglected by critics. But born into a family of...
Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces
Author: Patrick Mackie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A dazzling celebration and recalibration of Mozart's genius, written with an energy to match its subject' - Ian Bostridge Mozart is...
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...
U & I: A True Story
Author: Nicholson Baker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book about John Updike,...
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...
Orwell's Roses
Author: Rebecca Solnit (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Outside my work the thing I care most about is gardening' wrote George Orwell in 1940. Inspired by her encounter...
Purgatory: A Prison Diary
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Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books
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Memoirs
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Author: Pablo Neruda Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda, the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of...
The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words
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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...
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
Author: Joseph Farrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his...