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This biography is an authoritative account of the novelist, journalist, nationalist, feminist and larrikin Stella Miles Franklin, author of My Brilliant Career and a great literary figure. This account follows her story from her beginnings in the Australian bush, through her publishing success and time spent in Chicago, USA.

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Known worldwide for his horror creations in best-selling books and popular film adaptations, Stephen King spent years in obscurity trying to find his voice and his audience. For much of his career he chose to remain in the small-town Maine of his youth. This title traces his evolution from would-be "Pulp" magazine writer to master of his craft.

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The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time, written with complete access to the archives stored in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre.

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David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. He tries to understand what it means to desire so desperately, as his mother did to the end of her life, to try almost anything in order to go on living and, when the time comes, to die with dignity.

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The poet Sylvia Townsend Warner rose to sudden fame with the publication of her classic feminist novel Lolly Willowes in 1926, but never became a conventional member of London literary life, pursuing instead a long writing career in her own individualistic manner. This book deals with her life and work.

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When Bridget Harrison arrived in Manhattan to work for America's most famous tabloid, the New York Post, she was in at the deep end from day one. Dispatched by day to cover murders and muggings in the roughest corners of New York, by night she began to write a column about her search for love in a dating shark tank.

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Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria's favourite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. This biography shows him as a Romantic as well as a Victorian, exploring both the poems and Tennyson's attempts at play writing, as well as the pressures of his age and the personal relationships that made the man.

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Originally published by Fourth Estate in 1996, when it was short-listed for the Whitbread Prize.

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Vanity Fair, published in serial parts in 1847-8, made William Makepeace Thackeray famous 'all but at the top of the tree', he told his mother, 'and having a great fight up there with Dickens'.

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In this delightful sequel to Peeling the Onion, Gnter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up, of their father, who was always at work on a new book, always at the margins of their lives.

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The life of William Morris (1834-1896) is revealed in significant new detail by his complete surviving correspondence, brought together here for the first time and including many previously unpublished letters. This collection not only bears witness to Morris's day-to-day activities and friendships, but also reflects his keen response to landscape

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These volumes continue the only complete edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834- 1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer, and designer. Covering the years 1881 through 1888, they treat the most dramatic period in another facet of Morris's career: his work as a political activ

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These volumes bring to a close the only comprehensive edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834-1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer, and designer. Volumes III and IV, taken together, give in detail the comments and observations that articulate his problematic political and a

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With stories mov[ing] from country-hick hilarious to poignant and touching ("Savannah Morning News"), "The Cracker Queen" is a celebration of living out loud, finding humor in desperate situations, and loving life in spite of hardships.

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"With a new afterword, 1992"--Title page verso.

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On a narrow cobbled street in a northern mill town young Harry Bernstein and his family face a daily struggle to make ends meet.

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This candid account traces Llewellyn's life from her earliest days through to her nursing training, her marriage, life in Bohemian Adelaide in the 60s and 70s, and the beginning of her life as a writer.