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By: Roger Garfitt
ISBN: 9780099571957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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We follow him back to the Norfolk village where as a small child he had glimpsed the world through his grandfather's eyes and we are inside his head as he gradually cuts loose from the real world, eventually being committed to a locked ward in a mental hospital.
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By: Lavinia Greenlaw
ISBN: 9780571332274
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2017
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The Importance of Music to Girls is award-winning poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw's vivid and engaging portrait of what music means to us as we grow up.
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By: Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 9780061227998
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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When her journals began, 34-year-old Oates was already a recipient of the National Book Award (1969), with many O Henry awards, and others, under her literary belt. This volume focuses on excerpts from that first decade, 1973-1983, one of the productive of Oates' long career.
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By: John Cheever
ISBN: 9780099529538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he was a great writer, but one whose acute levels of perception often crippled him as a person.
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By: Valerie Eliot
ISBN: 9780571290925
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A vivid and personal documentation of T. S. Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life.
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By: John Haffenden
ISBN: 9780571316342
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The Letters of T. S. Eliot series provides a vivid and personal documentation of T. S. Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life.
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By: Benjamin Zephaniah
ISBN: 9781471168956
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2019
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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The stunning autobiography of the poet, writer, lyricist and activist, Benjamin Zephaniah.
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By: Kamal Ahmed
ISBN: 9781408889244
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Zachary Leader
ISBN: 9780099520931
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By the time Herzog was published in 1964, Saul Bellow was probably the most acclaimed novelist in America. This book traces Bellow's life away from the desk, as polemicist, teacher, husband, father and lover. It also spans the period from Bellow's birth in 1915 to the publication of Herzog in 1964.
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By: Lesley Pearse
ISBN: 9780241453209
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 29th February 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 9780008146597
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as weve never seen her before.
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By: Michael Mewshaw
ISBN: 9781640091498
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Counterpoint
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By: A.M. Homes
ISBN: 9781847080110
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2008
Publisher: Granta Books
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A famously enigmatic writer reveals the truth about her past.
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By: Frederick Forsyth
ISBN: 9780552171700
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2016
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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At eighteen, Forsyth was the youngest pilot to qualify with the RAF. At twenty-five, he was stationed in East Berlin as a journalist during the Cold War. He wrote his game-changing first novel, The Day of the Jackal and never looked back. He's been shot at, he's been arrested, he's even been seduced by an undercover agent. This is his story.
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By: Elias Canetti
ISBN: 9781847083555
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2011
Publisher: Granta Books
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The third part of the Nobel Prize Winner's classic autobiography, reissued by Granta in a stunning new paperback edition.
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By: Simon Gray
ISBN: 9781847080547
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2008
Publisher: Granta Books
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Few diarists have been as frank about themselves, and even fewer as entertaining as Simon Gray.
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By: Simon Gray
ISBN: 9781847080554
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: Granta Books
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Gray intertwines scenes from his adult and his childish self to produce a brilliant and moving counterpoint of life's unsteady progress.
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By: Simon Gray
ISBN: 9781847080585
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Granta Books
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The complete boxed set.
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By: Elias Canetti
ISBN: 9781847083562
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2011
Publisher: Granta Books
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The first part of the Nobel Prize winner's classic autobiography, reissued by Granta in a stunning new paperback edition.
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By: Elias Canetti
ISBN: 9781847083579
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2011
Publisher: Granta Books
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The second part of the Nobel Prize winner's classic autobiography, reissued by Granta in a stunning new paperback edition.
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By: Professor John Carey
ISBN: 9780571310937
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2015
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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John Carey's hugely acclaimed memoir, in which he reflects on a life immersed in literature.
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By: Janice Galloway
ISBN: 9781847080998
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2009
Publisher: Granta Books
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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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By: Laurie Lee
ISBN: 9780241243671
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Henry David Thoreau
ISBN: 9781784872410
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.
