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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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(Paperback)
By: Shirley Jackson
ISBN: 9780143127291
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Paperback)
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: 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: 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.
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By: Richard Greene
ISBN: 9781408703977
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The definitive one-volume biography of a literary legend.
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By: Roger McGough
ISBN: 9780099478751
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2006
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2006
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Roger McGough is one of Britain's best-loved poets. Roger first rose to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the pop group The Scaffold, who had two number one hits - "Thank U Very Much" and "Lily The Pink". This is his autobiography, which also contains nostalgic reminiscences and tales of love, life and loss.
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By: David Nokes
ISBN: 9780571226368
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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From leading biographer David Nokes, an original and hugely rewarding portrait of Samuel Johnson, one of the great figures of English Literature.
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By: Kimberly Carlson Aesara
ISBN: 9781098380717
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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SAVED answers the question of whether love for others and love for himself can save Tommy Carlson. It is a story of friends and family, a story of loyalty. It makes one question if there are limits and boundaries to love.
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By: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9780099518259
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded her thoughts with unfailing grace, courage, honesty and wit.
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By: Horace Walpole
ISBN: 9781841593500
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2017
Publisher: Everyman
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Offers an extensive selection of author's letters, arranged by subject so that you can choose from themes including social life, the Court, politics, literature, and the evolution of his Gothic castle and art and book collections at Strawberry Hill.
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By: Ramie Targoff
ISBN: 9781529404890
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th March 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A vividly drawn Joint biography of four extraordinary Renaissance women writers who have been rescued from obscurity by scholar and critically acclaimed author, Ramie Targoff.
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By: Peter Ackroyd
ISBN: 9780749386559
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2006
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Offers a biography of Shakespeare, this book reads like the work of a contemporary meeting Shakespeare. It is a depiction of the world Shakespeare inhabited.
