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By: Professor Michael Scammell
ISBN: 9780571255993
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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From award-winning author Michael Scammell comes the first authorized biography of Arthur Koestler.
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By: Lucasta Miller
ISBN: 9780099503590
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A famous poet, a mysterious death and a story stranger than fiction. - this is the lost life and mytserious death of the 'Female Byron'
On 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was found in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, a bottle of prussic acid in her hand.
(Hardback)
By: Tracy Daugherty
ISBN: 9781250282330
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 16th October 2023
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry.
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By: T. S. Eliot
ISBN: 9780571316366
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2017
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The seventh volume in the momentous series of selected letters from T. S. Eliot.
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By: T. S. Eliot
ISBN: 9780571316380
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The eighth volume in the acclaimed series of selected letters from T. S. Eliot.
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By: Ted Hughes
ISBN: 9780571221387
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Delve into the letters of one of the most respected and cherished poets of the 20th century.
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By: Ted Hughes
ISBN: 9780571221394
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2009
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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This selection includes correspondence from Hughes's marriage to Sylvia Plath, and his letters to those he trusted reveal much about his feelings for her.
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By: Julian Barnes
ISBN: 9780099584537
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed
In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; then, finally, he gives us the story of his own grief, unflinchingly observed.
This is a book of intense honesty and insight;
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By: Christopher Isherwood
ISBN: 9780099561224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTON
Subtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in Londons Bohemia.
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By: Allison Gilbert
ISBN: 9781541674356
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Basic Books
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The first biography of Elsie Robinson, the most influential newspaper columnist you've never heard of
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By: Lyndall Gordon
ISBN: 9781844084548
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2011
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* 'As rich as a novel by Henry James' DAILY TELEGRAPH
* 'Will do nothing less than revolutionise the way Dickinson is read for years' GUARDIAN
The definitive biography, out now in paperback
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By: Armistead Maupin
ISBN: 9781784161040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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In this funny, poignant and unflinchingly honest memoir, one of the worlds best-loved storytellers explains how he evolved from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to claim their own lives.
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By: Charles C. Calhoun
ISBN: 9780807070390
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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(Paperback)
By: Lara Feigel
ISBN: 9781408877562
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Lara Feigel
ISBN: 9781408877531
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Christina Jarvis
ISBN: 9781644212257
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 12th January 2023
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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By: Paula Byrne
ISBN: 9780007243778
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of Englands greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, Brideshead Revisited.
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By: Diana Athill
ISBN: 9781783787449
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2022
Publisher: Granta Books
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Diana Athill's account of her turbulent relationship with Black Power activist Hakim Jamal in the 1960s: raw and unflinching, a memoir of friendship, love, mania and injustice.
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By: Joe Moshenska
ISBN: 9781529364293
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A vivid new biography of the great poet and revolutionary who remains as relevant today as ever.
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By: Joe Moshenska
ISBN: 9781529364286
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A vivid new biography of the great poet and revolutionary who remains as relevant today as ever.
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By: Max Mallowan
ISBN: 9780007331246
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Agatha Christies widowers recollections of his archaeological triumphs and life with Agatha.
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By: Reverend Dr Malcolm Guite
ISBN: 9781473611078
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 8th February 2018
Publisher: John Murray Press
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'A splendid celebration of the grizzled figure who "stoppeth one of three" and the tragic artist who created him' - The Times
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By: Miranda Seymour
ISBN: 9781471174155
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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By: John McGahern
ISBN: 9780571228119
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2006
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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'A glowing masterpiece.' - Hilary Mantel; the moving story of the great Irish novelist's childhood and family
