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(Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
By: Sir Andrew Motion
ISBN: 9780571228041
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
UK Publication Date: 18th May 2023
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A beautifully written memoir touchingly recounting a country childhood shattered by a mother's terrible riding accident.
(Paperback)
By: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
ISBN: 9780099572244
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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While Ngugi enjoys scouting trips, chess tournaments and reading about Biggles at the prestigious Alliance School near Nairobi, things are changing at home. He arrives back for his first visit since starting school to find his house razed to the ground and the entire village moved up the road closer to a guard checkpoint.
(Paperback)
By: Marina Warner
ISBN: 9780008347628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.
Wonderful a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination JENNY UGLOW(Paperback)
By: Marina Warner
ISBN: 9780008347598
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.
Wonderful a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination JENNY UGLOW(Hardback)
By: Marina Warner
ISBN: 9780008347581
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 9th March 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.
Wonderful a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination JENNY UGLOW(Paperback)
By: Caroline Moorehead
ISBN: 9780749016562
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 19th June 2014
Publisher: Allison & Busby
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A must-have companion to Allison & Busby's perennial topseller, Iris Origo's WWII diary War in Val d'Orcia
(Paperback)
By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson
ISBN: 9780753825778
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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First full-length biography for 30 years of the great First World War poet.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Barry Gifford
ISBN: 9780857867643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: Canongate Books
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The only oral, composite biography of Jack Kerouac. Being reissued, with a revised introduction, in the year of the film of his most famous novel, On the Road.
(Paperback)
By: Edna O'Brien
ISBN: 9781474616812
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 11th June 2020
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A portrait of the relationship between James Joyce and Nora Barnacle
(Paperback)
By: Gordon Bowker
ISBN: 9780753828601
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2012
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Long-awaited and comprehensive biography of the great Irish author James Joyce, who died 70 years ago
(Paperback)
By: Michael Bloch
ISBN: 9780719565502
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 22nd July 2010
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The authorized biography of 'the greatest diarist of our times'
(Paperback)
By: Peter J. Leithart
ISBN: 9780785293330
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 13th October 2022
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
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This edition will include updated text that highlights the new film adaptations inspired by Austens books and characters, and a reading guide perfect for deeper thought or book club discussions.
(Hardback)
By: Tobias Churton
ISBN: 9781780287508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
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A brilliant new biography of the mystic poet and artist William Blake - and the first to explore his startlingly original quest for spiritual truth, as well as the profound lessons he has for us all today.
(Paperback)
By: Julia Scheeres
ISBN: 9781640092167
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Counterpoint
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(Paperback)
By: Bevis Hillier
ISBN: 9780719564444
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2007
Publisher: John Murray Press
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John Betjeman was the best-loved English poet since Tennyson and became an institution - a 'teddy bear to the nation'.
(Paperback)
By: Adam Sisman
ISBN: 9781408849460
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Salman Rushdie
ISBN: 9780099563440
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Muslim scholar, had issued him with a death sentence. This book offers an account of how he was forced to live in hiding for over a decade.
(Hardback)
By: Adrian Hardiman
ISBN: 9781786691583
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An accessible and original book about Joyce, by a hugely respected figure in Ireland. A brilliant recreation of the late 19th- and early 20th-century legal system in Ireland.
(Paperback)
By: Adrian Hardiman
ISBN: 9781786691590
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An accessible and original book about Joyce, by a hugely respected figure in Ireland. A brilliant recreation of the late 19th- and early 20th-century legal system in Ireland.
(Paperback)
By: William Hjortsberg
ISBN: 9781619021051
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 12th February 2013
Publisher: Counterpoint
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When Brautigan took his own life in September of 1984 his close friends and network of artists and writers were devastated though not entirely surprised. To many, Brautigan was shrouded in enigma, erratic and unpredictable in his habits and presentation. This title offers portraits of a man destroyed by his genius.
(Hardback)
By: Malorie Blackman
ISBN: 9781529118674
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th October 2022
Publisher: Cornerstone
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The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering and inspiring account of a life in books.
Malorie Blackman OBE is one of Britain's best loved and most widely-read writers.
(Paperback)
By: Lucasta Miller
ISBN: 9781529110906
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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*A BOOK TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2021 IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN*
The epitaph John Keats composed for his own gravestone - 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water' - seemingly damned him to oblivion.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Alan Bennett
ISBN: 9781781256503
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2017
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A concise collection of Alan Bennett's latest diaries - and more.
(Hardback, Main)
By: Alan Bennett
ISBN: 9781781256497
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A new collection of Alan Bennett's diaries and more
