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By: Jake Poller
ISBN: 9781789144277
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2021
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A timely new biography of one of the 20th century's most provocative intellectuals.
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By: Michael Eaude
ISBN: 9781789148374
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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An exploration of the unique, contradictory genius of architect Antoni Gaud.
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By: David A. Shafer
ISBN: 9781780235707
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2016
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A new, critical biography of enigmatic French theorist, writer, actor and artist Antonin Artaud examining Artaud's work in relation to his life, as well as the many influential figures he came into contact with.
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By: David Ellis
ISBN: 9781789146820
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2023
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A concise, clear-eyed account of the flamboyant poet Byrons life and work.
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By: John Goodby
ISBN: 9781789149326
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A new portrait of Dylan Thomas, which reveals an inventive, dedicated writer.
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By: Verna Kale
ISBN: 9781780235783
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2016
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A thoroughly researched, balanced new biography of author, journalist and adventurer Ernest Hemingway.
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By: Bartholomew Ryan
ISBN: 9781789149340
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A compelling, timely exploration of Fernando Pessoas profound, innovative ideas.
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By: Max Saunders
ISBN: 9781789147018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2023
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A concise, cogent biography of avant-garde writer, critic and publisher Ford Madox Ford.
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By: James S. Williams
ISBN: 9781789148312
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2023
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Charts the key turning points in the short, extraordinary life of Frantz Fanon.
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By: Professor Ritchie Robertson
ISBN: 9781789146066
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th July 2022
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A concise yet comprehensive critical biography of crucial German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
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By: Professor Lara Vetter
ISBN: 9781789147599
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2023
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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The fascinating life and work of the groundbreaking, free-spirited modernist poet H.D.
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By: Kathryn Brown
ISBN: 9781789143812
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2021
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A new, critical biography of the innovative and influential French artist Henri Matisse.
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By: Ruth Antosh
ISBN: 9781789148725
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A concise, cogent biography of influential modernist writer J.-K. Huysmans.
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By: Jess Cotton
ISBN: 9781789143911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2023
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A biography of perhaps the most important poet of his generation, John Ashbery.
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By: Paul R. Laird
ISBN: 9781780239101
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Leonard Bernstein (19181990) was one of twentieth-century music's most successful and recognisable figures. In a career spanning five decades he conducted many of the world's leading orchestras, and composed scores for landmark musicals such as Candide and West Side Story
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By: Kevin J. Hayes
ISBN: 9781780239743
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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In this new account of a gifted, charismatic character, Kevin J. Hayes reviews Twain's life, from his early journalism to his masterpiece Huckleberry Finn , and from the travelogue Life on the Mississippi to his final work, the sprawling, episodic Mark Twain's Autobiography Mark Twain is a fresh, clear-sighted account of a crucial American writer.
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By: Jon Kear
ISBN: 9781780235738
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A new, critical account of the life and work of influential French painter Paul Cezanne.
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By: Patrick Armstrong
ISBN: 9781789147629
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2023
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A new account of the brilliant and influential, yet combative naturalist Richard Owen.
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By: Christina Guillaumier
ISBN: 9781789149517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 16th September 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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An absorbing, wide-ranging and incisive biography of celebrated composer Sergei Prokofiev.
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By: Matt ffytche
ISBN: 9781789145793
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 16th May 2022
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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An engaging and accessible biography of Sigmund Freud.
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By: Kirk Curnutt
ISBN: 9781780239989
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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The Sound and the Fury (his fourth novel), Faulkner produced a dazzling series of masterpieces - novels and stories that alternately exhilarated and exacerbated critics and left readers gasping to keep pace with his storytelling innovations.
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By: Cheryl R. Hopson
ISBN: 9781789147957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Explores the creativity and life of anthropologist, folklorist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston.
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By: Professor Ritchie Robertson
ISBN: 9781836391012
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2026
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2025
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A revealing portrait of Romantic writer, composer and public figure E.T.A. Hoffmann.
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By: Emmanuelle Fantin
ISBN: 9781836391036
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2026
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2025
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Provides new insights into the influential, yet enigmatic intellectual Jean Baudrillard.
