(Paperback)
By: Will Tosh
ISBN: 9781529390483
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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An alternative biography of Shakespeare seen through the lens of queer Elizabethan England.
From the Head of Research at The Globe, London.
(Paperback)
By: Francesca Bratton
ISBN: 9781529383379
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Part-biography, part-memoir, Stronger than Death is the story of modernist poet Hart Crane's final year in Mexico; the story of his mother's grief after his death; and an exploration of the author's struggles with mental illness in the years she first discovered the power of Hart's poetry.
(Hardback)
By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
ISBN: 9780241505717
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 20th August 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Jane Carswell
ISBN: 9781925760163
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Transit Lounge Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Mr James Runcie
ISBN: 9781526667779
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th January 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Matthew Dennison
ISBN: 9781788549448
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A concise life of Roald Dahl much-loved author and creator of numerous iconic literary characters.
(Hardback)
By: Matthew Dennison
ISBN: 9781788549417
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A concise life of Roald Dahl much-loved author and creator of numerous iconic literary characters.
(Hardback)
By: Carmel Bird
ISBN: 9781925760927
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Transit Lounge Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Rob Wilkins
ISBN: 9781529176902
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 20th July 2023
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Rob Wilkins
ISBN: 9780857526649
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Paula Byrne
ISBN: 9780008322243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously JILLY COOPER
Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer
A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021
(Paperback, Main)
By: Frances Wilson
ISBN: 9780571366231
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2021
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The prize-winning biography of Wordsworth's beloved sister, champion, muse who was at the heart of the Romantic movement in Britain - reissued to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Dorothy's birth.
(Paperback)
By: Christine Nelson
ISBN: 9781785510601
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
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Drawing on the rich Bronte collection of the Morgan Library & Museum, an intimate portrait of a family of writers is revealed. The remarkable family is discovered through an array of manuscripts, rare printed books, personal documents and private letters.
(Paperback)
By: Deborah Levy
ISBN: 9780241977569
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Joyce Morgan
ISBN: 9781760875176
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2022
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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She was Australian born, an international bestselling author and a member of the glamorous literary, intellectual and society salons of late nineteenth and early twentieth century London and Europe
(Paperback)
By: Karen Bartlett
ISBN: 9781785906152
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 10th May 2022
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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The Diary of Anne Frank is one of the most enduring and bestselling books of all time, yet its history is as complex as it is contested. For the first time, this is the extraordinary true story behind the book, its publication and its significance.
(Hardback)
By: Sara B. Franklin
ISBN: 9781982134341
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Atria Books
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The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th centuryincluding Julia Child, Anne Frank, and Sylvia Plathfinally gets her due, in this colorful biography of legendary editor Judith Jones.
(Paperback)
By: Donald Horne
ISBN: 9781742237299
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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A classic of Australian literature, The Education of Young Donald Trilogy combines Donald Horne's three autobiographies - The Education of Young Donald (1967), Confessions of a New Boy (1985) and Portrait of an Optimist (1988) - in one volume.
(Paperback)
By: Professor Mary Sanders Pollock
ISBN: 9781350385467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780349017082
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The fourth title in Maya Angelou's bestselling seven-volume autobiography is reissued in a new look to celebrate its induction to the Virago Modern Classics list in Virago's 50th anniversary year.
(Paperback)
By: Lyndall Gordon
ISBN: 9780349012100
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The revealing of the hidden muse - Emily Hale - the Hyacinth Girl of The Waste Land poem - who influenced the life and art of T S Eliot. Over 1000 letters of his to her have only now been unlocked. Lyndall Gordon, the acute biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft and Emily Dickinson, brings us a new way to view the great poet.
(Paperback)
By: Lyndall Gordon
ISBN: 9780349012094
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 10th August 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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(Paperback)
By: Suzanne Falkiner
ISBN: 9781921401558
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: UWA Publishing
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Enlisted in 1910 by a Cambridge University sponsored expedition of Western Australia, Grant Watson served as biologist and research aide to celebrated anthropologists A R Brown and Daisy Bates, recording Aboriginal marriage customs. This title presents a fascinating portrait of English writer E L Grant Watson.
(Hardback, Annotated edition)
By: Nicholas Frankel
ISBN: 9781789144147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 17th May 2021
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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An exploration of Oscar Wilde's self-creation as a 'work of art'.
