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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

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In her beautifully told biography, Frances Wilson brings Dorothy Wordsworth to life in all her complexity

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The incredible story of Emile Zola's escape to London in the aftermath of the scandalous Dreyfus Affair.

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The Importance of Music to Girls tells the story of the adventures that music leads us into - getting drunk, falling in love, cutting our hair, wanting to change the world - as well as the darker side of the adolescent years: loneliness, bullying, getting arrested.

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The untold story of Blanche Knopf, the singular woman who helped define American literature.

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The true story of the man who inspired John le Carre's most famous character, and an amazing life story of an author and spy.

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Byron Rogers biography of Wales s national poet and vicar, R.S. Thomas has been hailed as a masterpiece , even as a work of genius , by reviewers from Craig Brown to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The masterful final volume of the diaries described by the Evening Standard's literary editor as 'one of the treasures of contemporary English literature'.

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A brilliant and insightful celebration of the imaginative genius of Charles Dickens, published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his death.

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How a single year turned Chaucer into a poet, and sparked the creation of The Canterbury Tales. Now available in paperback.

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An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe--highlighting his fascination and feuds with science

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The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carr was alive

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Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favourite "hero-criminal," the talented Tom Ripley. The author maps out this richly bizarre life from her birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, "Strangers On a Train", to her self-exile in Europe.

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A critically acclaimed biography of a cultural titan who embodied an age.

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The first part of the Nobel Prize winner's classic autobiography, reissued by Granta in a stunning new paperback edition.

Part portrait of Britain's greatest man of letters, part guide to life, a witty and erudite re-evaluation of Dr Johnson's enduring importance and relevance.

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Village rectories, the traditional family homes of church ministers, have had a long association with writers in Britain. In this book, each chapter explores the life of a writer during the time they lived at a particular rectory/ parsonage or vicarage and the effect it had on them.

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Time to Be in Earnest is P. D. James's extraordinary memoir of her early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age.

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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

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Focuses on Virginia Woolf, one of the towering figures of literary modernism. Following the chronology of Woolf's life, this title considers each of the novels in context, gives due prominence to her dazzlingly inventive essays, traces the contentious course of her afterlife, and shows why Virginia Woolf continues to haunt and inspire us.

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This beautiful book is an absorbing account of the creation of a garden which will appeal equally to gardeners and those with an interest in Virginia and Leonard Woolf.

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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

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* A moving, funny memoir by a great writer - from her wartime childhood to her stints as a teacher, lady's maid, actress and writer...