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Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'One of our finest writers.' Neil Gaiman 'One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past100 years.'...

A brilliant hybrid of myth, history and fantasy from Sylvia Townsend Warner, one of the twentieth century's great novelists Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged...

Sylvia Townsend Warner's tale of a Victorian woman's love for her husband's mistress is an extraordinary re-imagining of historical fiction The story of a young English aristocrat, who - cut...

A joyful, rule-breaking experiment in biography, which celebrates 'country life' as a state of mind 1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and...

Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'One of our finest writers.' Neil Gaiman 'One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past100 years.'...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Some general wear on binding but otherwise good copy.What does it mean for a woman writer to find herself — truly find herself...

A joyful, rule-breaking experiment in biography, which celebrates 'country life' as a state of mind 1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and...

A love story set in Victorian England by one of the most original writers of the twentieth century Leaving her orphanage at sixteen, Sukey Bond finds employment as a servant...

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In Letters of Note: Cats , Shaun Usher collects together the most engaging missives that celebrate, eulogise, rail against and analyse the idiosyncratic ways of our feline companions. James Joyce,...

This comprehensive edition of Sylvia Plath's letters is a work of immense scholarship and care, presenting a complete and historically accurate text of the known and extant letters Plath wrote...

These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall...

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Edition: 1st ed., 1st printingCondition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA work of historical fiction, "Sylvia" chronicles the life of Sylvia Mattner, a young woman of...

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' It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human...

'I love Jane Gardam, especially Old Filth' Nina Stibbe'One of the finest writers around. Old Filth has stayed with me for years...Can't think of anyone who achieves so much with...