(Hardback)
By: Mark Bostridge
ISBN: 9781399416023
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Adle Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love - and the writer who chased after her a century later.
(Paperback)
By: Jacqueline Kent
ISBN: 9781742237503
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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Acclaimed biographer Jacqueline Kent traces the social and political issues that inspired and often hampered Australian radical women writers and their desire to change the world.
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By: Thomas Clerc
ISBN: 9781250214904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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"Show me where you live and I'll tell you who you are": this sly commentary on materialism finds drama in the domestic and dark humor in every doomed attempt to express ourselves through what we own.
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By: Eleanor Hogan
ISBN: 9781742236599
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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Both famous in their day, Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill were bestselling writers who told of life in the vast Australian interior. Eleanor Hogan reflects on the lives and work of these indefatigable women. With sensitivity and insight, she wonders whether their work speaks to us today and what their legacies as fearless female outliers might be.
(Paperback)
By: Tim Winton
ISBN: 9780143574095
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: A. A. Milne
ISBN: 9780715655047
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th July 2023
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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With characteristic self-deprecating humour, A.A. Milne recalls the formative events of his life: from a blissfully happy childhood to the writing ofWinnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin.
(Paperback)
By: Ruth Antosh
ISBN: 9781789148725
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A concise, cogent biography of influential modernist writer J.-K. Huysmans.
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By: Lucy Worsley
ISBN: 9781473632202
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 19th April 2018
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Historian Lucy Worsley visits Jane Austen at home, exploring the author's life through the places which meant the most to her.
(Hardback)
By: Kathryn Sutherland
ISBN: 9781851246267
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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A fascinating insight into the life of one of our best-loved authors through the biographies of objects that crossed her path in life and afterward.
(Paperback)
By: Brenda Niall
ISBN: 9781923058019
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Text Publishing
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One of Australias foremost biographers examines the life of Joan Lindsay, the author of one of Australias most enduring novels Picnic at Hanging Rock
(Paperback)
By: Ron Padgett
ISBN: 9781566891592
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: Coffee House Press
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Ron Padgett remembers the life and times of his friend, the brilliant artist Joe Brainard.
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By: C.-Dimitris Gounelas
ISBN: 9781776920679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Israel Zamir
ISBN: 9781628725216
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Malorie Blackman
ISBN: 9781529118698
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2023
Publisher: Cornerstone
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(Paperback)
By: Tim Winton
ISBN: 9780143785972
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Barbara Else
ISBN: 9780143777618
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)
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(Paperback)
By: Bernadette Brennan
ISBN: 9781760879785
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Leaping into Waterfalls explores the rich, tumultuous life of Gillian Mears, one of Australia's most significant writers of the last forty years.
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By: Dr Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9781844086115
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A collection of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers, Maya Angelou.
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By: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9781784874001
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th December 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780141192246
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. From their meeting in 1921, Vladimir's letters to his beloved Vera form a narrative arc that tells a forty-six year-long love story. This book features these letters that tell us much about the man and the writer.
(Paperback)
By: Laura Thompson
ISBN: 9781789542660
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A biography of the most brilliant of the Mitford sisters, who dazzled and scandalised interwar high society with their wit and sometimes controversial lifestyles.
(Paperback)
By: Emmanuel Carrre
ISBN: 9781846148217
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Limonov is not a fictional character, but he could have been. He's lived a hundred lives. This book tells the story about this charecter.
(Hardback)
By: Sarah Harkness
ISBN: 9781035008933
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 9th May 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A fascinating, evocative history of Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, two poor but idealistic young men who created a Victorian publishing empire.
(Paperback)
By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ISBN: 9780241968772
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features Gabriel Garcia Marquez who was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother asked him to come back with her to the village of his grandparents. In this memoir, he recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured.
