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By: Sarah Knights
ISBN: 9780349011493
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer
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By: Sarah Knights
ISBN: 9780349011516
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 8th June 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The author of A Life of David Garnett, short-listed for the Slightly Fox Best First Biography Prize and for the James Tait Black Prize, now turns to the pioneering photographer, admired by Man Ray: Barbara Ker-Seymer and her outre circle of avant-garde artists of London of the 1940s and 50s.
(Hardback)
By: Philip Greene
ISBN: 9780399174902
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Suzanne Fagence Cooper
ISBN: 9781787476981
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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'To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, religion, all in one' - how the works of John Ruskin can teach us how to see our own world more clearly
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By: John Garth
ISBN: 9780007119530
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture
Acclaimed as the best book about Tolkien, this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkiens wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings.
(Hardback)
By: Richard Bradford
ISBN: 9781448218141
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 19th January 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The first biography to examine Mailer's life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of America from the end of World War II to the election of Barack Obama.
(Hardback)
By: Lance Richardson
ISBN: 9781784743017
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
UK Publication Date: 16th October 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Fiona Sampson
ISBN: 9781788162081
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 24th February 2022
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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How Britain's most famous female poet invented herself and defied her times.
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By: Nicholson Baker
ISBN: 9781847083517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2011
Publisher: Granta Books
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Baker's startlingly honest, very funny account of his obsession with John Updike.
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By: Clare Peake
ISBN: 9781780333854
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A moving memoir from Mervyn Peake's daughter.
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By: Rick Emerson
ISBN: 9781637740422
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: BenBella Books
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"Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the Worlds Most Notorious Diaries is the true story of a young-adult blockbuster . . . of a terror that stalked 1980s America . . . and of the ruthless charlatan behind both"--
(Paperback)
By: Mark Bostridge
ISBN: 9780349015019
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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To tie-in with the new collection of letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby - Between Friends - a reissue of the definitive biography of the author of Testament of Youth. With a new introduction by Mark Bostridge.
(Paperback)
By: Laurie Lee
ISBN: 9780241243671
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Nigel Nicolson
ISBN: 9781474619820
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2021
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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'You cannot find peace by avoiding life' Virginia Woolf
An intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author of them all - 'All you need to know about the modernist, feminist icon' TIME OUT
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By: Quentin Bell
ISBN: 9780712674508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1996
UK Publication Date: 7th March 1996
Publisher: Vintage
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As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers.
Compelling, moving and entertaining, Quentin Bell's biography was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize.
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By: Henry David Thoreau
ISBN: 9781784872410
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITS
In 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts.
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By: Walt Whitman
ISBN: 9781598536140
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: The Library of America
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The incomparable wisdom of America's greatest poet, distilled from his late-in-life conversations with Horace Traubel.
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By: Roger Lewis
ISBN: 9781444708691
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 10th May 2012
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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From the author of the critically acclaimed Christmas bestseller Seasonal Suicide Notes.
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By: Mark Doty
ISBN: 9781787332430
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 16th April 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In What Is the Grass, Doty a poet, a lover of men, a New Yorker, and an American keeps company with Whitman and his mutable, landmark work, Leaves of Grass, tracing the resonances between his own experience and the legendary poets life and work.
What is it, then, between us Whitman asks.
(Paperback)
By: Alan Garner
ISBN: 9780008306007
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR
From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England.
(Hardback)
By: Masha Gessen
ISBN: 9780805242461
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Schocken Books
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The story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia as told through the history of the Soviet solution to the Jewish question, in which, in 1929, the Soviet Union declared the area of Birobidzhan a homeland for Jews.
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By: Peter Ackroyd
ISBN: 9780099287476
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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As well as his enduring masterpieces, The Moonstone often called the first true detective novel and the sensational The Woman in White, he produced an intriguing array of lesser-known works.
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By: John Higgs
ISBN: 9781474614337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2019
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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'If a thing loves, it is infinite' William Blake
A short, impassioned argument for why the visionary artist William Blake is important in the twenty-first century
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By: Professor John Carey
ISBN: 9780571231645
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2010
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The first authorised biography of one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century - now in paperback.
