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By: Daisy Dunn
ISBN: 9780007554324
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man's wife and made it known to the world through his verse. This superb book gives a rare portrait of life during one of the most critical moments in world history through the eyes of one of Rome's greatest writers.
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By: Howard Sounes
ISBN: 9781847675606
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
UK Publication Date: 14th January 2010
Publisher: Canongate Books
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This updated biography features a new preface by the author as well as an expanded notes section
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By: Simon Callow
ISBN: 9780007445318
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An exuberant and entertaining biography of Charles Dickens that captures the essence of the great novelist.
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By: Claire Tomalin
ISBN: 9780141036939
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 21st June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, and a great novelist. This book paints a fresh portrait of Dickens, capturing the complex character of this great genius.
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By: Claire Harman
ISBN: 9780241963661
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors, watching five beloved siblings sicken and die, haunted by unrequited love: Charlotte Bronte's life has all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. This book presents an illuminating account of one of our best-loved novelists.
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By: John Walsh
ISBN: 9781472133472
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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An elegy to a golden age of literature, Circus of Dreams divulges how the British literary scene underwent an unrecognisable transformation in the 1980s, almost eclipsing writers of the previous generation.
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By: Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007487240
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Agatha Christies personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels.
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By: Catherine Gildiner
ISBN: 9781770412255
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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The third volume of Gildiner's memoirs takes us through her hijinks in Oxford (Cathy meets the British social system), inner-city Cleveland (Cathy teaches and challenges authority), and Toronto (Cathy lives in notorious Rochdale and meets her future husband).
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By: Edna O'Brien
ISBN: 9780571276271
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Edna O'Brien's Country Girl is an astonishingly honest and compelling memoir from one the greatest names in twentieth century literature.
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By: David Castrono
ISBN: 9781593761530
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: Counterpoint
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By: A. N. Wilson
ISBN: 9781848879508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2014
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A. N. Wilson is one of the most popular and bestselling historians and biographers writing in Britain today and in Dante In Love he brings to life one of the western canon's most enigmatic figures.
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By: Malachy McCourt
ISBN: 9781478917045
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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By: James Lees-Milne
ISBN: 9780719566813
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2007
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The first of three abridged volumes of 'the greatest diarist of our times'
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By: Gary Snyder
ISBN: 9781619025462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Counterpoint
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Shares nearly 250 letters exhanged between the authors from 1973 to 2013 on topics ranging from religion, spirituality, and environmentalism to the relationship between art and commerce.
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By: Lyndall Gordon
ISBN: 9781844088911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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From the renowned and award-winning biographer of Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and Mary Wollstonecraft among others, a universal story about mothers and daughters.
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By: Leonora Carrington
ISBN: 9781681370606
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 18th May 2017
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Leonora Carrington is perhaps the most enchanting of the women Surrealists. This book describes the events of 1940, when, after her longtime lover artist Max Ernst was sent to a concentration camp, Carrington was "led across the border of Knowledge" and imprisoned in a sanatorium for the insane.
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By: Henry Hitchings
ISBN: 9780719566325
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2006
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Journey into the history of English and discover how words have entered our language to make it what it is today.
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By: David Margolick
ISBN: 9781590517130
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Other Press LLC
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(Paperback)
By: Nigel Barnes
ISBN: 9780720613223
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
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(Paperback)
By: Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN: 9780349012216
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 13th February 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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By: Dylan Thomas
ISBN: 9781474607995
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2017
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The first volume of the definitive collection of Dylan Thomas's letters.
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By: Dylan Thomas
ISBN: 9781474608008
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2017
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The second volume of the definitive collection of Dylan Thomas's letters.
(Hardback)
By: Levi Lionel Leland
ISBN: 9781507224137
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
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A stunning, curated celebration of the master of the macabre! Featuring a die-cut cover, foil accents, and original illustrations, this perfectly packaged gift book dives into the life and works of the famed horror writer and adds a sophisticated touch to desks and bookshelves.
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By: Artemis Cooper
ISBN: 9781848549265
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2017
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The authorised biography of Elizabeth Jane Howard from the award-winning author of Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
