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Frances Partridge: the last survivor of the Bloomsbury group - the authorised biography.

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How the gonzo literary journalist became a crusader against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America--and the devastating price his work exacted on his life, his health and his career

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From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker comes an unprecedented compilation of over 60 journals, drawing an intimate portrait of her development as an artist, human rights activist and intellectual over four decades of her life

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One of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one of the most talked about. Intellectual and independent, she had the strength to defy polite society with her highly unorthodox private life, so why did she deny her fictional characters the same opportunities

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One of the most highly acclaimed biographies of 2006 -- now published in paperback

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Georgette Heyer remains an enduring international bestseller, read and loved by four generations of readers and extolled by today's bestselling authors. Georgette Heyer wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, when she was seventeen in order to amuse her convalescent brother. This title tells her story.

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Explores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in life. This title includes stories, anecdotes, jokes, absurdities, the odd informal homily, pitfalls and pratfalls, and Yorkshire life and death. It is about the dream and reality of what you are, and what you might have been.

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The true story of Savannah Knoop, JT LeRoy, and one of the most famous literary hoaxes of all time, soon to be a major motion picture - starring Kirsten Stewart.

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Tells the story of Ian Fleming at Goldeneye in Jamaica, where all his novels and stories on James Bond were written. This book includes interviews with Ian's family, his Jamaican lover Blanche Blackwell and many other islanders. It deals with Ian Fleming's life and work.

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loyalty to comrades alive and dead drove him back to active service though still suffering from shell-shock.
Goodbye to All That takes Graves through his convalescence in England, his efforts to protect the poet Siegfried Sassoon, a friend and fellow officer, from the consequences of his public denunciation of the war;

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A master of twentieth century fiction looks back on his life, in a newly-expanded conversation - also includes several key interviews from throughout Greene's career.

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In this witty, intriguing, accessible account, Nicola Shulman interweaves the bloody events of Henry's reign with the story of English love poetry and the life of its first master, Henry's most glamorous and enigmatic subject: Sir Thomas Wyatt.

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'He understands only the women he invents the others not at all'

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An illustrated celebration of the life of Ernest Hemingway.

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Told through the lense of Henry James's relationship with two women who particularly shaped his writing, Henry James is a unforgettable read by one of our best-loved biographers.

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Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. This volume of posthumously collected personal writings is the closest we may ever come to the autobiography of this most private of writers.

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The definitive biography of this most important and loved of America's modernist poets.

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Nadezhda saw it as an opportunity for her husband to mend his shattered life, but it was a trap and he was arrested for the last time.

'My case will never be closed', Osip once said, and it is mostly through the courageous efforts of Nadezhda that his memory has been preserved.

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Hilary is four, not yet five, and she has a mother and a father and an older brother and sisters. She even has a name at home - Billy - that is different from her written-down name. But now that she is in Low Babies in the local convent school, it seems Hilary has something else called responsibilities.

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