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By: Michelle Dean

ISBN: 9780349005409
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Sharp tells the riveting stories of the fiercely intelligent, glamorous and iconoclastic twentieth-century women who made their way to Manhattan to forge spectacular literary careers, from Dorothy Parker to Joan Didion.


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By: Michelle Dean

ISBN: 9780349005393
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Sharp tells the riveting stories of the fiercely intelligent, glamorous and iconoclastic twentieth-century women who made their way to Manhattan to forge spectacular literary careers, from Dorothy Parker to Joan Didion.


(Paperback)

By: Michelle Dean

ISBN: 9780349005423
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Sharp tells the riveting stories of the fiercely intelligent, glamorous and iconoclastic twentieth-century women who made their way to Manhattan to forge spectacular literary careers, from Dorothy Parker to Joan Didion.


(Paperback)

By: Pter Ndas

ISBN: 9781250338235
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2025
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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The magnum opus of one one of Europes greatest living writers.


(Paperback)

By: Pter Ndas

ISBN: 9781250338242
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2025
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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The magnum opus of one of Europes greatest living writers.


(Hardback)

By: Brigitta Olubas

ISBN: 9780349012889
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 17th November 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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At last - the authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Great Fire, The Transit of Venus and Greene on Capri, winner of the National Book Award, the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction


(Hardback)

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

ISBN: 9780715633892
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2013
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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The definitive single-volume biography of Siegfried Sassoon, from the world's leading scholar of the great war poet


(Paperback)

By: Jos Saramago

ISBN: 9780099520481
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, Jos Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and mother to live in a series of cramped lodgings in a working-class neighbourhood of Lisbon.


(Paperback)

By: Jos Saramago

ISBN: 9781784871833
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A delightful insight into the formation of an artist who would become one of the world's most respected writers.

Born in 1922 in the tiny Portuguese village of Azinhaga, Jos Saramago was only a baby when his family moved to a series of cramped lodgings in a working-class neighbourhood of Lisbon.


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By: Silvana Paternostro

ISBN: 9781644210024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 20th August 2020
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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An oral history biography of the legendary Latin American writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garca Mrquez, brimming with atmosphere and insight from those that knew him.


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By: Silvana Paternostro

ISBN: 9781609808969
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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An oral history biography of the legendary Latin American writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garca Mrquez, brimming with atmosphere and insight from those that knew him.


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By: Diana Athill

ISBN: 9781783787456
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Granta Books
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The Costa-award winning memoir on what it means to grow old, reissued alongside Athill's extensive backlist.


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By: Jan-Erik Pettersson

ISBN: 9781849165013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2012
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A biography of Stieg Larsson reveals how his life and work shaped the stories of his bestselling novels.


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By: Will Tosh

ISBN: 9781529390476
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 13th June 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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An alternative biography of Shakespeare seen through the lens of queer Elizabethan England.
From the Head of Research at The Globe, London.


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By: Jean Sprackland

ISBN: 9780099532439
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, beached whales and a perfect cup from a Cunard liner.


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By: Volker Weidermann

ISBN: 9781782272977
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2017
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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A dazzling portrait of a community of intellectual exiles, during the extraordinary summer of 1936.


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By: Andrew McConnell Stott

ISBN: 9781847678720
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th January 2015
Publisher: Canongate Books
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A glittering group biography from the award winning author of The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi.


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By: Miriam Toews

ISBN: 9780571278695
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2013
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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An absorbing and imaginative memoir of manic depression by one of Canada's bestselling authors.


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By: Samantha Ellis

ISBN: 9781784701116
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 4th January 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Anne Bronte is the forgotten Bronte sister, overshadowed by her older siblings - virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily and dissolute Branwell. Tragic, virginal, sweet, stoic, selfless, Anne. The less talented Bronte, the other Bronte.


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By: Professor Selina Todd

ISBN: 9781784703486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'Anyone who values what is best in British theatre and film will want to join Selina Todd as she digs deep into the brilliance of Delaney's work - and her character. Delaney's strong female characters - teenager Jo and her single mother, Helen - asserted that working-class women wanted more than suburban housewifery.


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By: Elaine Feinstein

ISBN: 9781474605571
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The first biography of the former Poet Laureate, famous for his marriage to Sylvia Plath, the subject of his bestseller, BIRTHDAY LETTERS, which has sold over 200,000 copies in hardback.


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By: Jonathan Bate

ISBN: 9780008118211
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE

Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. It will be the standard biography of Ted Hughes for a long time to come Sunday Times

Seldom has the life of a writer rattled along with such furious activity A moving, fascinating biography The Times


(Paperback)

By: John Lahr

ISBN: 9781408831458
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 10th September 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Vera Brittain

ISBN: 9781844088706
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 22nd March 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The wonderful biography of Winifred Holtby and her friendship with Vera Brittain, now reissued as a Virago Modern Classic.

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