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By: Nikolai Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780008350628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An intimate portrait of Patrick OBrian, written by his stepson Nikolai Tolstoy.
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By: Gnter Grass
ISBN: 9780099507598
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. It is a remarkable autobiography and, without question, one of Gunter Grass' finest works. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum.
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By: Hermione Lee
ISBN: 9780099546597
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014
Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography
New York Times Book Reviews 10 Best Books of the Year
Penelope Fitzgerald (19162000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms.
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By: P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9781841591919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 31st March 2014
Publisher: Everyman
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In this series of letters to William Townend, a fellow-writer and friend since their schooldays at Dulwich College, Wodehouse discusses in some detail his literary outlook, writing methods and constant hunt for new plots.
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By: Timothy Brennan
ISBN: 9781526614643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Michael Chabon
ISBN: 9780008286323
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood.
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By: Lorenza Foschini
ISBN: 9781846272721
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Granta Books
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Part literary mystery, part biography, part curiosity, here is the short, charming (and true) story of one man's obsession with Marcel Proust, and his decades-long quest to collect everything that once belonged to the writer - right down to his overcoat.
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By: Jonathan Bate
ISBN: 9780008167455
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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By: Shirley Jackson
ISBN: 9780143127291
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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By: Ray Bradbury
ISBN: 9781612194219
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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By: Janet Malcolm
ISBN: 9781847085368
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2012
Publisher: Granta Books
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Reading Chekhov is a literary pilgrimage, homage, travelogue, biography, literary criticism and a restrained love letter all rolled into one . It is the work of an iridescent and sympathetic imagination' The Times
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By: Celia Brayfield
ISBN: 9781448217496
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th July 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Laurie Lee
ISBN: 9780241953273
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 15th May 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents a sequence of early recollections, beginning with the dazzling lights and sounds of my first footings on earth in a steep Cotswold valley some three miles long.
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By: William Cash
ISBN: 9781472132185
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 10th September 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Restoration Heart is William Cash's 'restore-a-wreck' memoir of house and heart.
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By: William Cash
ISBN: 9781472132178
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 17th September 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Restoration Heart is William Cash's 'restore-a-wreck' memoir of house and heart.
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By: Ian McIntyre
ISBN: 9781845294694
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2009
UK Publication Date: 8th January 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The most highly acclaimed modern biography of Scotland's most famous poet reissued for the 250th anniversary.
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By: Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson
ISBN: 9781472929143
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Joseph Farrell
ISBN: 9781848668812
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The story of the last years of the author of Treasure Island and Jekyll and Hyde, lived out in the earthly paradise of the Samoan Islands. Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award
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By: Roberto Bolano
ISBN: 9781612190952
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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By: Charlotte Gordon
ISBN: 9780099592396
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
UK Publication Date: 25th February 2016
Publisher: Cornerstone
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***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4***
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.
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By: Nino Strachey
ISBN: 9781841657882
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Evocative, engaging and filled with detail,this book explores the homes of three writers linked to the Bloomsbury Group. Bringing together stories of love and intimacy, of evolving relationships and erotic encounters, with vivid accounts of the settings in which they took place, it offers fresh insights into their complicated, interlocking lives.
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By: Andrew Lycett
ISBN: 9781474602983
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
UK Publication Date: 12th November 2015
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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This definitive biography unravels the intricate story of a misunderstood genius who became Britain's most famous author in his day, published with a brand new introduction on the 150th anniversary of Rudyard Kipling's birth.
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By: Richard Greene
ISBN: 9780349138626
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The definitive one-volume biography of a literary legend.
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By: Richard Greene
ISBN: 9781408713440
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The definitive one-volume biography of a literary legend.
