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LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

A book like no other the tale of a gripping quest to discover the identity of historys most notorious murderer and a literary high-wire act from the legendary writer and director of Withnail and I.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

A book like no other the tale of a gripping quest to discover the identity of historys most notorious murderer and a literary high-wire act from the legendary writer and director of Withnail and I.

(Paperback)

One of Britain's greatest contemporary novelists turns her focus, in luminous, powerful prose, to her eccentric childhood in the fifties and sixties.

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The first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered 'far and away the best living woman poet' in her day.

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Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets; he was an unhappy husband and a desolate widower; he wrote bitter attacks on the English class system yet prized the friendship of aristocrats.

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The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer

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The author of A Life of David Garnett, short-listed for the Slightly Fox Best First Biography Prize and for the James Tait Black Prize, now turns to the pioneering photographer, admired by Man Ray: Barbara Ker-Seymer and her outre circle of avant-garde artists of London of the 1940s and 50s.

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'To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, religion, all in one' - how the works of John Ruskin can teach us how to see our own world more clearly

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* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture

Acclaimed as the best book about Tolkien, this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkiens wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings.

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The first biography to examine Mailer's life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of America from the end of World War II to the election of Barack Obama.

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How Britain's most famous female poet invented herself and defied her times.

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Baker's startlingly honest, very funny account of his obsession with John Updike.

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A moving memoir from Mervyn Peake's daughter.

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"Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the Worlds Most Notorious Diaries is the true story of a young-adult blockbuster . . . of a terror that stalked 1980s America . . . and of the ruthless charlatan behind both"--

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To tie-in with the new collection of letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby - Between Friends - a reissue of the definitive biography of the author of Testament of Youth. With a new introduction by Mark Bostridge.

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The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess milie du Chtelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds.

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITS

In 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts.

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The incomparable wisdom of America's greatest poet, distilled from his late-in-life conversations with Horace Traubel.

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In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot'

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From the author of the critically acclaimed Christmas bestseller Seasonal Suicide Notes.

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In What Is the Grass, Doty a poet, a lover of men, a New Yorker, and an American keeps company with Whitman and his mutable, landmark work, Leaves of Grass, tracing the resonances between his own experience and the legendary poets life and work.

What is it, then, between us Whitman asks.

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A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America.

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A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR

From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England.