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By: Marguerite Duras
ISBN: 9781644212394
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th April 2023
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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By: Sarah Watling
ISBN: 9781784707170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Daisy Dunn
ISBN: 9781474615587
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2024
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A real-life Brideshead Revisited that will appeal to fans of Evelyn Waugh, P. G. Wodehouse and Nancy Mitford
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By: Angela Huth
ISBN: 9781472127044
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 14th February 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Angela Huth is one of our best-loved English authors: a writer of great elegance, compassion and nuanced observation. Not the Whole Story is her long-awaited memoir . . .
(Hardback, Main)
By: Tove Jansson
ISBN: 9781908745934
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2021
Publisher: Sort of Books
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Tove's tribute to her island refuge and the art of Tuulikki Pietila.
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By: Julian Barnes
ISBN: 9780099523741
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher brother, a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard.
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By: Matthew Hollis
ISBN: 9780571245994
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2012
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A fascinating exploration of one of Britain's most influential First World War poets.
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By: Gnter Grass
ISBN: 9781784703684
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Gunter Grass - a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, and the world. It features a wealth of stories that is condensed into artful miniatures. Combining poetry, lyric prose and drawings, it is a farewell gift, a sensual, melancholy summation of a life fully lived.
(Hardback)
By: Michael Holroyd
ISBN: 9780701187439
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Weaving together memoir and historical anecdote, he traces his relationship with cars through a lifetime of biography.
Learning to drive was no easy matter for Michael: the lessons required military precision when practising how to get in and out of his car correctly.
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By: Bliss Broyard
ISBN: 9780316008068
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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The 'fascinating and insightful book' (New York Times) in which Bliss Broyard examines her celebrated father's life and illuminates questions of race, identity and the American dream.
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By: Monica Dickens
ISBN: 9780091944681
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2011
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Monica discovered the pleasure of daily banter with the milkman and grocer's boy and the joy of doing an honest day's work, all the while keeping a wry eye on the childish pique of her employers.
(Hardback)
By: Jake Grogan
ISBN: 9781604337518
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Focus
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By: D.J. Taylor
ISBN: 9781472132970
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The definitive biography of one of the greatest writers of the the twentieth century.
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By: D.J. Taylor
ISBN: 9781472132963
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The definitive biography of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
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By: Peter Hessler
ISBN: 9781805462859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 29th August 2024
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China's heartland, chronicling a country in the midst of tumultuous change through the prism of its education system
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By: Lyndall Gordon
ISBN: 9780349006369
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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By: Matthew Dennison
ISBN: 9781784975647
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A beautifully written and produced celebration of the life of Beatrix Potter, one of the nation's best-loved authors.
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By: Mark Jacobson
ISBN: 9780399185731
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2031
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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An intense narrative exploring the huge cult of conspiracy of Milton William Cooper.
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By: Nikolai Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780008350628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An intimate portrait of Patrick OBrian, written by his stepson Nikolai Tolstoy.
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By: Gnter Grass
ISBN: 9780099507598
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. It is a remarkable autobiography and, without question, one of Gunter Grass' finest works. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum.
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By: Hermione Lee
ISBN: 9780099546597
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014
Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography
New York Times Book Reviews 10 Best Books of the Year
Penelope Fitzgerald (19162000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms.
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By: P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9781841591919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 31st March 2014
Publisher: Everyman
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In this series of letters to William Townend, a fellow-writer and friend since their schooldays at Dulwich College, Wodehouse discusses in some detail his literary outlook, writing methods and constant hunt for new plots.
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By: Timothy Brennan
ISBN: 9781526614643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Michael Chabon
ISBN: 9780008286323
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood.
