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The magnum opus of one one of Europes greatest living writers.

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The magnum opus of one of Europes greatest living writers.

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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

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The definitive single-volume biography of Siegfried Sassoon, from the world's leading scholar of the great war poet

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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.

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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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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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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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The Costa-award winning memoir on what it means to grow old, reissued alongside Athill's extensive backlist.

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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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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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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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A dazzling portrait of a community of intellectual exiles, during the extraordinary summer of 1936.

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A glittering group biography from the award winning author of The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi.

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An absorbing and imaginative memoir of manic depression by one of Canada's bestselling authors.

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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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'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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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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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

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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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Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously JILLY COOPER

Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer

A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021

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The prize-winning biography of Wordsworth's beloved sister, champion, muse who was at the heart of the Romantic movement in Britain - reissued to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Dorothy's birth.

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No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. To his international admirers Burns was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, and to his political enemies a 'traitor'. This biography presents the remarkable life, loves and struggles of this great poet.