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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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Part-biography, part-memoir, Stronger than Death is the story of modernist poet Hart Crane's final year in Mexico; the story of his mother's grief after his death; and an exploration of the author's struggles with mental illness in the years she first discovered the power of Hart's poetry.

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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 poignant biography of Anita Leslie, the only woman to have won the Croix de Guerre and the Africa Star in WWII.

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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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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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A powerful biography of Wordsworth's beloved sister, champion and muse.