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By: Jean Strause
ISBN: 9781590174531
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2012
Publisher: New York Review Books
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As Jean Strouse's generous, probing, and deeply imaginative biography shows, however, Alice James was a fascinating and exceptional figure in her own right.
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By: Katharine Smyth
ISBN: 9781786492869
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2020
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A wise, moving debut about the pain of losing a parent and the power of literature to light our way through it.
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By: Joanna Hodgkin
ISBN: 9781844087945
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The story of Lawrence Durrell and his enigmatic first wife, Nancy: love, betrayal and literary endeavour set among the glittering intellectuals of 1930s London, Paris and Corfu
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By: Alvin Schwartz
ISBN: 9781594771088
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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Writer Alvin Schwartz received a great deal of attention from fans when he began talking publicly about his seventeen-year stint writing "Superman" and "Batman" comics. One of the individuals who contacted him was no ordinary fan, but a seven-foot Buddhist monk named Thongden, a tulpa or individual who was thought into being by a Tibetan mystic.
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By: Hilary Spurling
ISBN: 9780141030791
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Arthur Koestler
ISBN: 9781784876173
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The first volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.
In 1931, Arthur Koestler joined the Communist Party, an event he felt to be second only in importance to his birth in shaping his destiny.
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By: Alec Nevala-Lee
ISBN: 9780062571953
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Andrew Greig
ISBN: 9780857381361
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2011
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A fishing trip honoring a dying man's wish becomes a meditation on life, nature and friendship, a literary biography and a celebration of the beauty of the Highlands of Scotland.
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By: Andrea di Robilant
ISBN: 9781782399407
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2019
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The remarkable story of Hemingway's love affair with both the city of Venice and the muse he found there - a young Italian girl who inspired him to complete his great final work.
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By: Louis MacNeice
ISBN: 9780571234387
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 17th January 2013
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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An essential collection of poems from one of Ireland's most treasured poets.
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By: Anne Bernays
ISBN: 9780060958053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Written in two separate voices, here is Bernays and Kaplan's double memoir: a candid, anecdotal account of two children of privilege, one from New York's East Side, the other from the West Side, who came of age in the transformative 1950s. Photos throughout.
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By: Linda Lear
ISBN: 9780141003108
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of biographies: a gifted artist and shrewd businesswoman; a pioneering scientific researcher; a powerful landowner who conserved acres of Lakeland countryside; a daughter who defied her parents with her first tragically short engagement and who, finally was given a second chance of love and happiness.
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By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
ISBN: 9781529114300
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 13th January 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Isabel Huggan
ISBN: 9780676975383
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Elaine Showalter
ISBN: 9780349012285
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Hotlby, written from 1920 to 1935, tell the story of an extraordinary friendship that created a model for a new kind of independent woman, after the First World War.
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By: Elaine Showalter
ISBN: 9780349012292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby, written from 1920 to 1935, tell the story of an extraordinary friendship that created a model for a new kind of independent woman, after the First World War.
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By: Richard Wright
ISBN: 9781784876135
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Ian Collins
ISBN: 9781399819060
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A revealing, intimate biography of England's greatest - and most private - country writer, by his close friend Ian Collins.
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By: Adolfo Bioy Casares
ISBN: 9781681377544
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Paul Auster
ISBN: 9780571353354
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A major re-assessment of the genius of Stephen Crane - best known for The Red Badge of Courage.
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By: Frances Wilson
ISBN: 9781408893654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: James Salter
ISBN: 9781447250708
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2014
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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An unforgettable book of passion, ambition, and what it means to become a writer.
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By: Arthur Gelb
ISBN: 9780399159114
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.
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By: Edna O'Brien
ISBN: 9781474614443
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 23rd January 2020
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The nobility, arrogance and sheer theatre of Byron's life.
