(Paperback)
By: Barbara Pym
ISBN: 9781529091946
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A unique autobiography of Barbara Pym, celebrated author of Quartet in Autumn, includes an introduction by Jilly Cooper
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By: Kerrie Davies
ISBN: 9780702259661
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
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An innovative, imaginative work of biography, examining Bertha and Henry Lawson's marriage through a modern lens.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Rachel Cusk
ISBN: 9780571351640
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 16th May 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Written in the months after Rachel Cusk's divorce, Aftermath is a masterly work charting the largely unwritten journey back to order from the chaos that is left when a family breaks apart.
(Paperback)
By: Laura Thompson
ISBN: 9781472269560
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2020
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A definitive biography of the author, now fully updated with a new introduction to mark 100 years of Agatha Christie publishing
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By: Lucy Worsley
ISBN: 9781529303919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 31st August 2023
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A ground-breaking biography of Agatha Christie from acclaimed historian Lucy Worsley
(Hardback)
By: Robert E. Meagher
ISBN: 9781643138213
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th February 2022
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in ours, producing a brilliant study of Camuss life and influence for those readers who, in Camus's words, cannot live without dialogue and friendship.
(Paperback)
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: Dr Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780349017112
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The fifth volume in Maya Angelou's bestselling autobiography is reissued in a new look to mark its induction to the Virago Modern Classics list, alongside several of the author's most celebrated works.
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By: Claire Harman
ISBN: 9781529918342
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 11th January 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Penelope Lively
ISBN: 9781405966993
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 14th November 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Daniel Handler
ISBN: 9780861549429
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 27th June 2024
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The tender memoir of a writing life from the bestselling author of A Series of Unfortunate Events.
(Paperback)
By: David 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.
(Hardback)
By: Patrick Donovan
ISBN: 9781914414473
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2022
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
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(Paperback)
By: Grantlee Kieza
ISBN: 9780733335914
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: ABC Books
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(Hardback)
By: Avril Horner
ISBN: 9781526173744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 19th March 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This biography of Barbara Comyns reveals a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose complicated life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs, spies and high society.
(Paperback)
By: John Rodden
ISBN: 9780691228419
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived Yes, according to Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. He charts the astonishing passage of a litterateur into a legend.
(Hardback)
By: John Rodden
ISBN: 9780691182742
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived Yes, according to Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. He charts the astonishing passage of a litterateur into a legend.
(Paperback)
By: Chloe Hooper
ISBN: 9781761103513
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Chloe Hooper
ISBN: 9781761424649
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
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(Paperback, Main - Classic edition)
By: Reinaldo Arenas
ISBN: 9781781258682
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2017
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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An insight into the brutal and beautiful life of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, detailing his struggles with homosexuality, censorship and political tumult.
(Paperback)
By: Bell Hooks
ISBN: 9781685890797
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 20th July 2023
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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Beyond the Secret Garden: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett (with a Foreword by Jacqueline Wilson)
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By: Ann Thwaite
ISBN: 9780715654187
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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The definitive and revealing life story of the author ofThe Secret Garden,Ann Thwaite creates a sympathetic but balanced and eye-opening biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett who enchanted numerous generations of children.
(Hardback)
By: Eric Robertson
ISBN: 9781789145205
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 16th May 2022
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A new account of innovative French poet, novelist, essayist and film writer Blaise Cendrars.
(Paperback)
By: Douglas Murray
ISBN: 9781529340068
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th October 2020
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The definitive biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, the lover of Oscar Wilde and 'the other man' in the renowned scandal, by the acclaimed author of The Strange Death of Europe and The Madness of Crowds. With a new Foreword and revised Introduction.
