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The Orientalist: In Search of a Man caught between East and West
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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults...
The Bloomsbury Group Memoir Club
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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...
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
Author: Orlando Figes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The acclaimed historical portrait of the love triangle between an opera star, a writer and an impresario - and...
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...
Strange Antics: A History of Seduction
Author: Clement Knox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as...
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...
Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The third and...
Books That Saved My Life: Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure
Author: Michael McGirr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A profound, funny and uplifting collection of reminiscences about a life in books Here are forty texts to read at some...
The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography
Author: Benjamin Zephaniah Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 *BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his...
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...
Jacob's Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading
Author: Susan Hill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The...
Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind
Author: Alan Jacobs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Should we still bother with the supposedly great works of past ages? Aristotle believed that men were naturally superior to women....
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...
Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation
Author: Adel Iskandar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 568 Edward W. Said (1935?2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary...
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...
Pessoa: An Experimental Life
Author: Richard Zenith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1088 A monumental biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers 'A completely superb and magisterial life of...
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
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Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost, comes a deeply moving tale of a father and son's...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003
Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ......
Orwell's England
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 All of Orwell's brilliant writing on England and Englishness collected in a single volume Much of George Orwell's best...
The Sixteen Satires
Author: Juvenal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of...
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error...
Poetics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, Aristotle's Poetics remains equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature....
The Histories
Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The work that established the study of history in the western world, Herodotus's The Histories is a dazzling contemporary account...