(Paperback)
By: Lara Feigel
ISBN: 9781408877555
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th October 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Laura Beatty
ISBN: 9781838954383
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2024
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A strange, wild, brilliant personal journey - across land and through time - in which Laura Beatty travels back two thousand years to rescue from obscurity Aristotle's friend and Chaucer's inspiration, the forgotten philosopher who grandfathered botany and the English novel.
(Paperback)
By: Dr Steven Powell
ISBN: 9781501367311
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"The first biography of James Ellroy, telling the ... story of his lifelong obsessions with crime, sex, and America's secret history"--
(Paperback)
By: Christina Jarvis
ISBN: 9781644213919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2024
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Valerie Lawson
ISBN: 9780733626371
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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The story of Mary Poppins, the quintessentially English and utterly magical children's nanny, is remarkable enough. But the story of Mary Poppins' creator - Australian Pamela Lyndon Travers - as this first biography reveals, is just as unexpected and remarkable.
(Hardback)
By: Pat Thomas
ISBN: 9781648230363
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th December 2023
Publisher: powerHouse Books,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Rachel Barrowman
ISBN: 9780864739926
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's greatest fiction writers. His long literary career includes seventeen adult novels, thirteen novels for children, a short story collection, and screenplays for TV and film. Acclaimed biographer Rachel Barrowman interweaves the story of Gee's life with his fiction, illuminating the unassuming man in the grey cardy alongside his unsettling stories.
(Paperback)
By: Natasha Trethewey
ISBN: 9781408840207
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Kerrie Davies
ISBN: 9781761470936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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After the success and celebrity of her coming of age novel My Brilliant Career, published when Miles Franklin was only 21, she disappeared. This is the story of the decade that made her second career as a fearless advocate for working women.
(Hardback)
By: Mary Ann Caws
ISBN: 9781789145540
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th April 2022
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A biography of the flamboyant and unapologetically avant-garde Mina Loy.
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By: Dr Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780349017129
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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In this treasured modern classic, one of America's most celebrated memoirists and poets, Maya Angelou, shares the deepest personal story of her life: the story of her relationship with her mother.
(Paperback)
By: Patrick Mackie
ISBN: 9781783786008
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Granta Books
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Re-encounter the music of Mozart through the compositions that made him one of modernity's most important figures.
(Hardback)
By: Patrick Mackie
ISBN: 9781783785995
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Granta Books
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The music and life of one of modernity's most prevalent figures through the compositions that shaped him, from a dazzling new writer of non-fiction.
(Paperback)
By: Bixley Donovan
ISBN: 9781927262023
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Upstart Press Ltd
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Take a peek behind the curtain to discover the boy, the youth, the man behind some of the greatest works of English literature. The life and times of William Shakespeare, richly imagined in this unique biography told using the Bard's own quotes.
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By: Kazuo Ishiguro
ISBN: 9780571346547
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 11th December 2017
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs is the lecture of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro.
(Hardback)
By: Ann Jefferson
ISBN: 9780691197876
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Stefan Zweig
ISBN: 9781782276364
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2020
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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A dazzling, tour de force biography of the one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, by one of the bestselling writers of the twentieth.
(Paperback)
By: Lesley Chamberlain
ISBN: 9781911590460
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 27th January 2022
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Tove Jansson
ISBN: 9781908745941
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2024
Publisher: Sort of Books
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Features Tove's seven page prose poem, The Island, published for the first time in the UK
(Hardback)
By: Sarah Krasnostein
ISBN: 9781760643904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Black Inc.
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(Paperback)
By: Monica Dickens
ISBN: 9780349016016
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A charming, funny and fascinating account of a young trainee nurse during the Second World War.
(Paperback)
By: Les Wilson
ISBN: 9781913393779
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2023
Publisher: Saraband
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(Paperback)
By: Rebecca Solnit
ISBN: 9781783785520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2022
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.
(Paperback)
By: D.J. Taylor
ISBN: 9781472132987
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The definitive biography of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
