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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: 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
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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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By: Paula Byrne
ISBN: 9780008322205
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th April 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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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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By: Robert Crawford
ISBN: 9781844139309
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.
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By: Sylvia Plath
ISBN: 9780571327805
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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By: David Hare
ISBN: 9780571327942
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The beautiful, signed, limited edition version of David Hare's shockingly funny and brilliant memoir.
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By: Emma Reyes
ISBN: 9781474606615
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 9th August 2018
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The extraordinary, posthumously published memoir in letters of a Colombian artist whose writing was championed by Gabriel Garca Mrquez - 'startling and astringently poetic' The New York Times
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By: Lucasta Miller
ISBN: 9780099287148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2002
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A fascinating and wonderfully readable deconstruction of the countless myths that have grown up around the Bronts.
Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte 'biography' appearing.
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By: Daniel Swift
ISBN: 9780099593355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 8th February 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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An extraordinary book of real passionate research Edmund de Waal
In 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War.
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By: Charles Bukowski
ISBN: 9781574230581
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 24th April 1998
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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The last journals of Charles Bukowski, illustrated by the comic art of Robert Crumb. Following a world-weary Bukowski as he nears the end of his life, most of the entries are written in the middle of the night, during the precious hours when the ever-present shadow of mortality was held at bay.
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By: Homero Aridjis
ISBN: 9780914671404
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Archipelago Books
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By: Judy Golding
ISBN: 9780571273423
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The critically acclaimed family memoir by the daughter of one of our best-loved and most influential authors.
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By: Robert B Silvers
ISBN: 9781590173343
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2009
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other.
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By: Robert B Silvers
ISBN: 9781590174876
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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A companion volume to The Company They Kept, in this book more of our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other.
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By: Simon Gray
ISBN: 9781847088482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Granta Books
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Collected in one spellbinding volume for the first time, these are the digressive, exuberant, rip-roaringly funny diaries of one of Britain's best playwrights and heaviest smokers
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By: Daphne Du Maurier
ISBN: 9781844082353
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2007
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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This companion to the work of one of Britain's best-loved bestselling novelists which celebrates the centenary of her birth.
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By: Michael Rosen
ISBN: 9780571312023
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 4th January 2018
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The incredible story of Emile Zola's escape to London in the aftermath of the scandalous Dreyfus Affair.
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By: Simon Gray
ISBN: 9780571254910
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A beautiful new edition collecting together Gray's two early diaries published by Faber.
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By: Henry Adams
ISBN: 9781598530605
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
Publisher: The Library of America
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