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'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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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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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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The definitive one-volume biography of a literary legend.

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The definitive one-volume biography of a literary legend.

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The definitive one-volume biography of a literary legend.

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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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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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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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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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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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An updated edition of this modern classic, SHADOWLANDS tells the tragic love story of C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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A keepsake coloring book of Dolly Parton quotes.

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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.