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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...
Waka and Things, Waka as Things
Author: Edward Kamens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part of material...
One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern
Author: R. Howard Bloch (Yale University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending...
Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius
Author: Elaine Fantham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes: Volume Two
Author: Yusuf al-Shirbini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One,...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One
Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural "types"-peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion,...
The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
Author: 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 478 Patronage, power, and competition in the Sultan's court The Sword of Ambition opens a new window onto interreligious rivalry...
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...
Lillian Hellman: The Image, The Woman
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Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today...
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Author: Jia Tolentino Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year 'Magnificent'The Times 'Dazzling' New Statesman 'It filled me with...
Save me, Joe Louis
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How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between
Author: Thomas C Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach...
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 Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
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The Life of a Long Distance Writer
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The Countess from Kirribilli: The mysterious and free-spirited literary sensation who beguiled the world
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Miss Pickerell Goes Undersea
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A Literary Heritage
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Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008
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The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators
Author: Martin Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating...
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...
Dickens and Massachusetts: The Lasting Legacy of the Commonwealth Visits
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The Newspaper of Claremont Street
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The Secret Garden
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Greek Voices in Australia: A Tradition of Prose, Poetry and Drama
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Round the World in Eighty Days
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The Avenel Companion to English and American Literature
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All the WorldÕs a Stage
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Two Little Savages
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn...
The Call of the Tribe: Essays
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that haveshaped the way he thinks and has...
A-Z of Great Writers
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Harvest
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The Faber Book of Reportage
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The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986
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Above Capricorn
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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...
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People
Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn' 'Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only...
The Three Billy-Goats Gruff
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