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(Paperback)
By: Nora Ephron
ISBN: 9780552777377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2012
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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If there is any solace in growing older, it is that you will find yourself guffawing in hysterical recognition at the situations the author describes, from the impossibility of trying to remember people's names at parties, to struggling with the new technology. This title focuses on what we all struggle with as we journey into our later years.
(Hardback)
By: Glen David Gold
ISBN: 9781473620162
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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From the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a shocking, big-hearted memoir about his bizarre upbringing in California in the 1970s and how he survived it.
(Paperback)
By: Glen David Gold
ISBN: 9781473620186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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From the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a shocking, big-hearted memoir about his bizarre upbringing in California in the 1970s and how he survived it.
(Paperback)
By: Annie Ernaux
ISBN: 9781644213612
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Miranda Seymour
ISBN: 9781471138584
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2019
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: William Palmer
ISBN: 9781472144997
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 28th July 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A work of non-fiction about eleven writers, including Dylan Thomas, Kingsley Amis, Patrick Hamilton, Jean Rhys and Elizabeth Bishop, and drink in their lives and work.
(Paperback)
By: William Palmer
ISBN: 9781472145000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A work of non-fiction about eleven writers, including Dylan Thomas, Kingsley Amis, Patrick Hamilton, Jean Rhys and Elizabeth Bishop, and drink in their lives and work.
(Paperback)
By: Jane Miller
ISBN: 9780349007571
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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'Jane Miller's collected journalism is a treasure trove of literary, personal and political marvels. The writing is a joy, as is the observation, wit and humanity that underpin it: like Montaigne, only funnier'
Matthew d'Ancona, Guardian and Evening Standard columnist
(Paperback, Main)
By: Fiona Sampson
ISBN: 9781781255292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2018
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Mary Shelley as never before - a new biography that shows the woman behind Frankenstein.
(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.
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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
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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'.
