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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.
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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
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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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(Hardback)
By: Bjrn Meidal
ISBN: 9789171262486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Bokforlaget Max Strom
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Presents a comprehensive photographic biography of Sweden's influential writer and playwright. This title offers more than 500 contemporary photographs from Strindberg's world Stockholm, the archipelago, Berlin, Paris and all the other places that have contributed in shaping the world-renowned playwright and writer.
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By: Uwe Neumahr
ISBN: 9781805330714
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2025
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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"--
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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.
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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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