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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.
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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.
(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
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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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(Paperback)
By: Malorie Blackman
ISBN: 9781529118681
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Cornerstone
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(Hardback)
By: Lucasta Miller
ISBN: 9781787331617
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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*A BOOK TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2021 IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN*
The epitaph John Keats composed for his own gravestone - 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water' - seemingly damned him to oblivion.
(Hardback)
By: John Hanson Mitchell
ISBN: 9781593760267
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2004
Publisher: Counterpoint
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In the mid 1970s, John Hanson Mitchell discovered over 2,000 antique glass plate negatives in the attic of an old estate in Massachusetts, the work of a little-known African American named Robert Gilbert. "Looking for Mr. Gilbert" is filled with music, natural history, African-American history, and the world of early photography as Mitchell uncovers the life of this remarkable American.
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By: Christy Brown
ISBN: 9780749391775
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1990
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Christy Brown was born a victim of cerebral palsy. But the hapless, lolling baby concealed the brilliantly imaginative and sensitive mind of a writer who would take his place among the giants of Irish literature. He recounts his childhood struggle to learn to read, write, paint and finally type, with the toe of his left foot.
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By: Russell Miller
ISBN: 9781844139224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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As the creator of Sherlock Holmes, 'the world's most famous man who never was', Arthur Conan Doyle remains one of our favourite writers; his work is read with affection - and sometimes obsession - the world over. This is his biography.
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By: Catherine Rayner
ISBN: 9781526703125
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2018
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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An insightful biography, exploring the lives of the three Bronte sisters, trailblazing female writers of the nineteenth century.
(Hardback)
By: Andrew Norman
ISBN: 9781399064231
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 30th November 2024
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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The story of the creators of Winnie the Pooh.
(Paperback)
By: Emer O'Sullivan
ISBN: 9781408863169
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Justin Webb
ISBN: 9780857527721
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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A story of a childhood defined by loneliness, the absence of a father and the grim experience of a Quaker boarding school. But with gun-wielding school masters and sub-standard living conditions, Quaker boarding school wasn't much better.
(Hardback)
By: Phil Carradice
ISBN: 9781399071864
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Who are the greatest spy writers of the twentieth century This book narrows the field down to Buchan, Fleming and Le Carre, including accounts of their lives alongside their books. Agree or disagree Carradice makes his case!
