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By: Nancy Spain
ISBN: 9781474618458
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 10th December 2020
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author - a woman very much ahead of her time.
'She was bold, she was brave, she was funny, she was feisty. I owe her a great deal in leading the way' Sandi Toksvig
(Paperback)
By: William Graves
ISBN: 9780712601160
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2001
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2001
Publisher: Vintage
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William Graves conveys the texture of life in Majorca, where he lived from the age of five in the household of his father, the poet Robert Graves. The book is also a portrait of Robert Graves, his "Muses" and his entourage, and a study of how the son of a famous father finds his own identity.
(Paperback)
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.
(Paperback)
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
(Paperback, Main)
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.
(Paperback)
By: Barry Miles
ISBN: 9781780221205
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th January 2015
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Paul Auster
ISBN: 9780571283248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2013
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Paul Auster's unforgettable account of the abandonment of his family by his father, told from the point of view of his mother.
(Paperback)
By: Minrose Gwin
ISBN: 9780062046345
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Meredith Hall
ISBN: 9780807072745
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether.
(Paperback)
By: David Thomson
ISBN: 9780099359913
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1994
UK Publication Date: 17th February 1994
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo. He stayed for ten years.
This memoir, acknowledged as a masterpiece, grew out of two great loves - for Woodbrook and for Phoebe, his pupil.
(Hardback)
By: DK
ISBN: 9780241301944
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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By: Terence Blacker
ISBN: 9780091913878
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2008
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Though born into privilege and inheriting a fortune, Willie Donaldson ended up dying alone in a seedy rented flat, his computer still logged on to a lesbian porn site. To some, he had been a great, under-rated comic writers, and to others, a dangerous force of corruption and decadence. This book unravels the truth of Willie Donaldson's story.
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By: Claire Lorrimer
ISBN: 9781473633988
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Author Claire Lorrimer's fascinating autobiography: a rich tapestry of a life and remarkable career that has spanned the twentieth century.
(Hardback)
By: Nino Strachey
ISBN: 9781529306934
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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How a generation of bold, sexually liberated and gender transgressive Bright Young Things in the 1920s and 30s rejuvenated the ageing Bloomsbury set, giving them a new and relevant voice.
(Paperback)
By: Nino Strachey
ISBN: 9781529306941
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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How a generation of bold, sexually liberated and gender transgressive Bright Young Things in the 1920s and 30s rejuvenated the ageing Bloomsbury set, giving them a new and relevant voice.
(Hardback)
By: Diane Middlebrook
ISBN: 9781619023314
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Counterpoint
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(Paperback)
By: Eileen Horne
ISBN: 9780857055194
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The true story of the English publisher who dared to bring the works of Emile Zola to a Victorian audience, and paid a heavy price.
(Paperback)
By: Carla Kaplan
ISBN: 9780385490368
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
UK Publication Date: 2nd December 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Jerome Charyn
ISBN: 9781934137987
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
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A passionate and deeply researched reassessment of Emily Dickinsons life and singular legacy in American arts and letters
(Paperback)
By: Bruce Piasecki
ISBN: 9781667819129
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Hardback)
By: Paul Zimmer
ISBN: 9780816640195
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Paperback)
By: W.D. Snodgrass
ISBN: 9781880238769
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1999
Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
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Blends Russell Baker's Growing Up and Roethke's The Poet and His Craft with Snodgrass's unique spice.
(Paperback, 5th Revised edition)
By: Jared Cade
ISBN: 9780720613902
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
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By: Mr Edward J. Hughes
ISBN: 9781780234939
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2015
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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One of France's most high-profile writers and a Nobel Prize-winner, Albert Camus experienced both public adulation and acrimonious rejection during his career, which was cut short by a fatal car accident in 1960. Edward J. Hughes unravels the life of a complex personality whose work and stance were the subjects of intense interest and scrutiny.
