(Hardback)
By: Rebecca Solnit
ISBN: 9781783785452
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Granta Books
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Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world.
(Hardback)
By: Michael Jago
ISBN: 9781849545136
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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The true story of the man who inspired John le Carre's most famous character, and an amazing life story of an author and spy.
(Hardback, Main)
By: A. N. Wilson
ISBN: 9781786497918
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A brilliant and insightful celebration of the imaginative genius of Charles Dickens, published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his death.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Paul Strohm
ISBN: 9781781250600
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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How a single year turned Chaucer into a poet, and sparked the creation of The Canterbury Tales. Now available in paperback.
(Paperback)
By: Elias Canetti
ISBN: 9781847083562
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2011
Publisher: Granta Books
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The first part of the Nobel Prize winner's classic autobiography, reissued by Granta in a stunning new paperback edition.
(Hardback)
By: Deborah Alun-Jones
ISBN: 9780500516775
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Village rectories, the traditional family homes of church ministers, have had a long association with writers in Britain. In this book, each chapter explores the life of a writer during the time they lived at a particular rectory/ parsonage or vicarage and the effect it had on them.
(Hardback)
By: George Tiffin
ISBN: 9781781859377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A celebration of the world's greatest movie actresses from the stars of the golden age to the icons of cinema's second century in classic scenes and beautiful images.
(Paperback)
By: Iris Origo
ISBN: 9781782272687
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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An extremely moving account of the lonely life of the unloved and tragic genius - described as the greatest modern Italian poet.
(Hardback)
By: Anne Hall
ISBN: 9781913491246
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2021
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
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(Paperback)
By: Lorna Sage
ISBN: 9780008329679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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One of the most critically acclaimed memoirs ever written.
One of the ten books novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography that make up our Matchbook Classics series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist.
(Paperback)
By: Gary Lachman
ISBN: 9780399173080
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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"Historian Gary Lachman, a friend of Wilson and a scholar of his work, provides [a] ... biography that delves into the life, thought, and evolution of ... the ... intellectual [rebel who wrote The outsider]"--Amazon.com.
(Hardback)
By: Neil R Storey
ISBN: 9781399071079
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th July 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula is an affectionate and revealing biography of the man who created the vampire novel that would define the genre and lead to a new age in Gothic horror literature.
(Hardback)
By: Franck Salameh
ISBN: 9780739184004
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Charles Corm: An Intellectual Biography of a Twentieth-Century Lebanese Young Phoenician delves into the history of the modern Middle East and an inquiry into Lebanese intellectual, cultural, and political life as incarnated in the ideas, and as illustrated by the times, works, and activities of Charles Corm (18941963).
(Paperback)
By: Professor Mark Hussey
ISBN: 9781408894415
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Ferdinand Mount
ISBN: 9780747596479
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A pitch-perfect memoir, brilliantly funny, wise and moving, of family, friends and political life over the last sixty years
(Hardback)
By: Geoffrey Bond
ISBN: 9781912690718
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
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(Paperback)
By: Thomas Dilworth
ISBN: 9781784708009
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The first full biography of a neglected genius and one of the great Modernists, lavishly illustrated in colour throughout
I would like to have done anything as good as David Jones has done Dylan Thomas
As a poet, visual artist and essayist, David Jones is one of the great Modernists.
(Hardback)
By: Alex Christofi
ISBN: 9781472964694
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 21st January 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A highly original and immersive new biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, published to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth
(Paperback)
By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9781840228045
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 21st January 2021
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Orwells subjects inDown and Out in Paris and LondonandThe Road to Wigan Pierare the political and social upheavals of his time. He focusses on the sense of profound injustice, incipient violence, and malign betrayal that were ubiquitous in Europe in the 1930s.
(Hardback)
By: Matthew Dennison
ISBN: 9781786697738
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The story of Kenneth Grahame, author of the children's classic Wind in the Willows, and of the vision of English pastoral that inspired it.
(Paperback)
By: Lea Ypi
ISBN: 9780241567265
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Miranda Seymour
ISBN: 9781471138577
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Leslie Brody
ISBN: 9781582434537
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Counterpoint
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(Paperback)
By: John T. Flanagan
ISBN: 9780816659449
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1941
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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