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(Hardback, New edition)
By: Patrick Wright
ISBN: 9781912248605
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 8th December 2020
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
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The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influentialpost-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s.
(Paperback, 2nd New edition)
By: Patrick Wright
ISBN: 9781913462581
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 8th June 2021
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
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The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influentialpost-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s.
(Hardback, Main)
By: Adam Sisman
ISBN: 9781800817784
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 12th October 2023
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carr was alive
(Paperback)
By: Selina Hastings
ISBN: 9780719565557
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 8th July 2010
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers
(Paperback)
By: Simon Gray
ISBN: 9781847080547
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2008
Publisher: Granta Books
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Few diarists have been as frank about themselves, and even fewer as entertaining as Simon Gray.
(Paperback)
By: Simon Gray
ISBN: 9781847080554
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: Granta Books
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Gray intertwines scenes from his adult and his childish self to produce a brilliant and moving counterpoint of life's unsteady progress.
(Paperback)
By: Simon Gray
ISBN: 9781847080721
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: Granta Books
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In this volume, Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Can he kick the habit of sixty years
(Paperback)
By: Simon Gray
ISBN: 9781847080585
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Granta Books
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The complete boxed set.
(Paperback)
By: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
ISBN: 9780099594031
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD
This is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject.
(Paperback)
By: Elias Canetti
ISBN: 9781847083579
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2011
Publisher: Granta Books
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The second part of the Nobel Prize winner's classic autobiography, reissued by Granta in a stunning new paperback edition.
(Paperback)
By: Diana Souhami
ISBN: 9781780878782
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
UK Publication Date: 28th March 2013
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The scandalous life of one of England's great eccentrics.
(Paperback)
By: Will Brooker
ISBN: 9781529136029
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2022
Publisher: Cornerstone
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(Paperback)
By: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
ISBN: 9781784708337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Michael Maar
ISBN: 9781786631848
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Verso Books
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A leading German scholar reveals his astonishing discovery about Nabokov's influential novel
(Hardback)
By: Helen Smith
ISBN: 9780224081818
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017
Over a career spanning nearly fifty years Edward Garnett editor, critic and publishers reader would become one of the most influential men in twentieth-century British literature.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Professor John Carey
ISBN: 9780571310937
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2015
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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John Carey's hugely acclaimed memoir, in which he reflects on a life immersed in literature.
(Paperback)
By: Annie Ernaux
ISBN: 9781644214138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Karen Olsson
ISBN: 9781526607546
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th July 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Aida Edemariam
ISBN: 9780007459629
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 21st February 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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(Paperback)
By: Anthony Holden
ISBN: 9780349117706
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Masterly biography of Leigh Hunt - publisher, poet, critic and Republican, and the mentor of Keats and Shelley
(Paperback)
By: Bill Goldstein
ISBN: 9781408894552
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 20th September 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Janice Galloway
ISBN: 9781847080998
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2009
Publisher: Granta Books
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One of Britain's greatest contemporary novelists turns her focus, in luminous, powerful prose, to her eccentric childhood in the fifties and sixties.
(Hardback, Main)
By: Julia Copus
ISBN: 9780571313532
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered 'far and away the best living woman poet' in her day.
(Paperback)
By: Claire Tomalin
ISBN: 9780241963289
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
UK Publication Date: 21st June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets; he was an unhappy husband and a desolate widower; he wrote bitter attacks on the English class system yet prized the friendship of aristocrats.
