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Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World
Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 OUTSIDERS tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their...
A Moveable Feast
Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest...
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
Author: Janet Malcolm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the...
Harold Robbins: The Man Who Invented Sex
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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...
Kathleen and Frank
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Contemporary Irish Literature: Transforming Tradition
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Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant
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Brontes: Selected Poems
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Amis & Son: Two Literary Generations
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A Long and Winding Road: Xavier Herbert's Literary Journey
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Coleridge: v. 1: Early Visions
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After the Fireworks: A Life of David Ballantyne
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Speak, Nabokov
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Trollope
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Bernard Shaw: v. 4: Last Laugh, 1950-91
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Janet Frame: Complete Autobiography
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The Inner Man: The Life of J.G. Ballard
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Teacher Man
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Fanny Trollope
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Samuel Johnson: A Personal History
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At Home in the World
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Flame into Being: Life and Work of D.H. Lawrence
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Language of Love: Anthology of Australian Love Letters, Poetry and Prose
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Thomas Mann: A Biography
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Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography
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Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard
Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how...
Muriel Spark: The Biography
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Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard
Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how...
Germaine Greer : Untamed Shrew: Untamed Shrew
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Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World
Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 'Radical Wordsworth deserves to take its place as the finest...
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes
Author: Rodrigo Garcia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 "This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone...
Experience
Author: Martin Amis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his...
12 Edmondstone Street
Author: David Malouf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 This remarkable book combines autobiography with a subtle, almost painterly sense of the ways in which the objects which...
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer
Author: Sarah Bakewell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Part biography, part self-help, an original, funny and moving portrait of Montaigne, Renaissance nobleman and essayist How to get...
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times no. 1 memoir now in paperback The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his...
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard
Author: Clare Carlisle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Engrossing ... Carlisle has pulled off the feat of writing a truly Kierkegaardian biography of Kierkegaard' (Julian Baggini, Financial...
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir
Author: Marina Warner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave,...
A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations
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Author: Juliet Nicolson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women All families have...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case
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Author: Michael Rosen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking...
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy
Author: Tove Ditlevsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The classic Danish trilogy hailed as a masterpiece on publication in English last year - now in a single...
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Author: Tom Wolfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Tom Wolfe's genre-defining ride through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87
Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy...
A Moveable Feast
Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for...
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
Author: Vita Sackville-West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries....
Molly Keane: A Life
Author: Sally Phipps Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Molly Keane (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good...
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person...
Home in the World: A Memoir
Author: Amartya Sen, FBA Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectuals Where is 'home'? For...