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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: Frances Wilson
ISBN: 9780571366231
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2021
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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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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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: Juliet Barker
ISBN: 9780349122427
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* Abacus reissue of Juliet Barker's unrivalled biography of the Bronte sisters, revised for this edition
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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: New York Review Books
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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: New York Review Books
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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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By: Robert Morrison
ISBN: 9780753827895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer.
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By: Gary Snyder
ISBN: 9781619027763
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Counterpoint
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By: Philip K Dick
ISBN: 9780575132443
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2012
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The final piece of work from one of the world's most visionary authors
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By: Philip Roth
ISBN: 9780099520962
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2007
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible daring and originality
What becomes of 'the facts' after they have been smelted down for art's sake
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By: Emily Brand
ISBN: 9781473664326
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A thrilling family story of aristocratic decadence and decline.
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By: Arturo Barea
ISBN: 9781782274940
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2018
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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Arturo Barea's astonishing Spanish trilogy is both the autobiography of a man and the biography of a nation during the first four decades of the twentieth century, one of the most crucial periods in Spain's long history.
