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Irne died a month later, aged only thirty-nine.

Her biographers take advantage of access to diaries, unpublished documents and surviving family members to examine Irne's remarkable life, from pogroms in Ukraine to gilded holidays in Biarritz, and her troubled relationship with her vain, difficult mother.

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From one of our most astute observers, a haunting and unexpected investigation of the many voices he carries inside himself

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Anorexia, drug addiction and depression were part of the legacy of fame, but so too were great friendship and love.

Drawing on a host of new sources, Katie Waldegrave tells the never-before-told story of how two young women, born into greatness, shaped their own legacies.

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A critical discussion of Pound's poetry.

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WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/ACKERLY PRIZE.

Several months after the death of poet Dannie Abse's wife, Joan, in a car accident, he began to write a diary which is both a record of present grief and a portrait of a marriage that lasted more than fifty years.

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Provides observations on a range of subjects such as: how not to buy plants, the elicit pleasures of bargain-hunting, the misery of writer's block, social democracy, racism, tulipomania, the stubbornness of bank managers, and more. This book offers reader a window onto a solitary life.

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Joseph Conrad's impact has been so profound and far-reaching that, eighty years after his death, he remains an essential cultural reference point.

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This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution.

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Presents an account of the author's childhood in Czernowitz, Ukraine. This title portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past and the terrors of the twentieth century.

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The stories of Rudyard Kipling are read all over the world, by people of all ages, yet no biography has fully explored the complex link between his fascinating life and his writing; Harry Ricketts brings Kipling vividly and touchingly to life - his traumatic childhood, split between India and England (haunting the powerful Jungle Books);

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J B Priestley grew up in Bradford, and served on the front line in the First World War, before attending Cambridge and embarking on a career as a writer. This title follows the development of Priestley's thought from his engagement with social themes to his subsequent disillusion in the post-war period.

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One of America's most beloved novelists provides his remarkable memoirs. "A sweepingly interesting life. . . . Rivals any fiction for tales of geographic or mental adventure".--"The Christian Science Monitor". of photos.

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Thomas Carlyle is an account of a major figure in Victorian literature and a unique commentator on nineteenth-century life.

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Thomas Carlyle was a major figure in Victorian literature and a unique commentator on nineteenth-century life. Born in humble circumstances in the Scottish village of Ecclefechan in 1795, his rise to fame was marked by determination and the development of a distinctive literary voice. This book traces Carlyle's personal and intellectual career.

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A memoir of a most unusual girl growing up in a small town near Niagara Falls in the 50s.

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A short and pungent New Yorker-style profile/extended essay of one of the great literary talents and some would say underachievers of American literature.

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A biography of two of the most interesting literary women to emerge in the early 20th century. Gertrude Stein, American-born, moved to France aged 28, where she met her life long partner, Alice B Toklas.

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From the bestselling author of "The Wordy Shipmates" comes an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. With her trademark smart-alecky insights and reporting, Vowell sets out to discover the emblematic and exceptional history of the 50th state, and in so doing finds America, warts and all.

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Revised edition of this remarkable biography from Lyndall Gordon, the highly acclaimed biographer of T.S.Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Henry James and Mary Wollstonecraft.