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Fernando Morais provides an exhaustive look at Paulo Coelho's fascinating and varied life, taking several years to research his subject. For the first time, discover the story of the man behind some of the world's most loved books.

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A poignant memoir and tribute to the Oxford poet Nairn
by the author who went on to create The Worm Ouroboros
and the groundbreaking Zimiamvia fantasy trilogy.

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In this sequel to PALIMPSEST, the celebrated novelist Gore Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his.

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Precious Lives is an intimate memoir about living and dying, and especially about the small change and odd currency of everyday life.

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Born in Nabraska of Irish Quaker parents, educated at Dulwich College, and in the `mean streets' of Los Angeles about which he wrote, Raymond Chandler-writer, oil executive, poet, recluse, charmer, gentlman, drunk-was full of contradictions as his origins.

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Though critics traditionally have paid homage to Robert Frost's New England identity by labeling him a regionalist, John Kemp is the first to investigate what was in fact a highly complex relationship between poet and region. Through a frankly revisionist interpretation, he not only demonstrates how Frost's relationship to New England and his attem

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This major interpretation of the life and art of Robert Lowell exposes the full relationship between the poetry and the personal and national experience to which it is so remarkably connected. Steven Axelrod proposes that the key to our understanding of Lowell's poetic achievement lies precisely in this interpenetration of his life and his art. Or

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Her first novel, the shocking Dusty Answer, became wildly successful launching her career as a novelist and, just as her novels depicted the tempestuous lives of her heroines, Rosamond's personal life would be full of heartbreaking affairs and lost loves.

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Philip Roth - one of the most renowned writers of his generation. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award, to his Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral, to his inventive works such as Exit Ghost and Nemesis, Roth has produced literature of the past hundred years. This title tells his story.

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Valerie Hemingway played an intimate, indispensable role in the lives of two generations of Hemingway's. This memoir is the account of what she enjoyed, and what she endured, during her astonishing years of living as a Hemingway.

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A fascinating account of the life of one of the century's great eccentrics - the brilliant Antoine de Saint-Exupery. He flew reconnaissance missions in the War and wrote some strange and wonderful books, including the classic children's story THE LITTLE PRINCE, between theatrically executed airplane crashed.

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A paperback reissue of a critically acclaimed biography which shows Shakespeare as a man among men and a writer among writers. Duncan-Jones takes us through the complexities of life in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean England in a compelling and well-told story.

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What qualities helped Primo Levi survive the demented laboratory of Auschwitz What does Milan Kundera make of being denounced as a subversive writer in communist Czechoslovakia What does Edna O'Brien think drove generations of Irish writers into exile This book explores the importance of region, politics and history in their work.

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Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer working at the forefront of the technological experimentation of the 1920s and 30s.

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For the next five years he was cut off from everything and everybody he knew and loved, from family, friends, and, perhaps above all, from Jill Morrell, the girl he was going to marry.

For five years, John McCarthy had to endure the deprivation - both physical and psychological - of captivity;

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Despite an admission, in 1939, that he had been wrong about Hitler, his reputation never recovered from the stigma of Fascism.After the Second World War, spent in penniless and bitter exile in Canada, he returned to London and, in the last decade of his life, received some measure of the success and recognition he had been denied for so long.

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This biography is an authoritative account of the novelist, journalist, nationalist, feminist and larrikin Stella Miles Franklin, author of My Brilliant Career and a great literary figure. This account follows her story from her beginnings in the Australian bush, through her publishing success and time spent in Chicago, USA.

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Known worldwide for his horror creations in best-selling books and popular film adaptations, Stephen King spent years in obscurity trying to find his voice and his audience. For much of his career he chose to remain in the small-town Maine of his youth. This title traces his evolution from would-be "Pulp" magazine writer to master of his craft.

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The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time, written with complete access to the archives stored in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre.