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(Hardback)
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.
(Paperback)
By: Nicholas Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780099289975
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2000
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A biography of Bruce Chatwin, based on private notebooks, diaries, letters and hundreds of interviews. It illuminates the many sides of Chatwin, from Sotheby's director, archaeologist, "Sunday Times" journalist and traveller to devoted husband and active gay, socialite and loner.
(Hardback, Main)
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.
(Paperback)
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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(Paperback)
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.
(Hardback)
By: Arthur Gelb
ISBN: 9780399159114
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.
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(Paperback)
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.
(Paperback)
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.
(Paperback, Main)
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
(Paperback)
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.
(Paperback)
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.
(Paperback)
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.
(Paperback)
By: Christopher Hitchens
ISBN: 9781612196725
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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Meet Christopher Hitchens - one of this generation's greatest, and most divisive, thinkers.
(Paperback)
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.
(Paperback)
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.
(Paperback, Reprint)
By: Catherine Gildiner
ISBN: 9781770412569
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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(Hardback)
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).
(Hardback)
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.
(Paperback)
By: David Castrono
ISBN: 9781593761530
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: Counterpoint
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(Paperback, Main)
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.
(Paperback)
By: Daphne Du Maurier
ISBN: 9780099333319
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2007
UK Publication Date: 5th May 1994
Publisher: Cornerstone
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The definitive biography of Daphne Du Maurier, one of history's greatest psychological thriller novelists
Rebecca, published in 1938, brought its author instant international acclaim, capturing the popular imagination with its haunting atmosphere of suspense and mystery.
(Paperback)
By: David Foster Wallace
ISBN: 9781612197418
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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"Expanded and with a new introduction by David Streitfeld"
(Paperback)
By: Malachy McCourt
ISBN: 9781478917045
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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(Paperback)
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'
