(Paperback)
By: Farrukh Dhondy
ISBN: 9781804295243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Verso Books
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The rebellious life of a novelist, screenwriter and revolutionary activist
(Hardback)
By: Patricia Grace
ISBN: 9780143775614
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780349017105
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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For Virago's 50th anniversary, we are reissuing the second title in Maya Angelou's bestselling autobiography series in a new look to celebrate its induction to the Virago Modern Classics list.
(Paperback)
By: Barbara Anderson
ISBN: 9780864735904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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This classic autobiography is a moving life story that reveals great insight into the making of a major writer. Broken down into three parts, the book details Anderson's childhood, the years she spent primarily as a mother and the wife of a naval officer, before concluding with her return to school and a renewal of the desire to write.
(Paperback)
By: Barbara Anderson
ISBN: 9780864736024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Broken down into three distinct parts, the book details Anderson's childhood, along with the years she spent primarily as a mother and the wife of a prominent naval officer, before concluding with her return to school and a renewal of the desire to write late in life.
(Paperback)
By: Bastian Fox Phelan
ISBN: 9781925818987
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Co
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(Hardback)
By: Clare Finney
ISBN: 9780711266766
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 8th June 2023
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
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Hungry Heart is a moving memoir exploring the manifold ways in which food has defined both the life of author Clare Finney and also how it becomes interwined in almost every modern day relationship, including that with ourselves.
(Paperback, New Edition)
By: Clare Finney
ISBN: 9780711266773
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 13th June 2024
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
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Renowned food writer Claire Finney reveals some of her all-time favourite recipes in Hungry Heart. Includes moving stories about foods place in her life and wider society.
(Hardback)
By: Lindsey Hilsum
ISBN: 9781784745349
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 19th September 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Thomas Clerc
ISBN: 9781250214904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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"Show me where you live and I'll tell you who you are": this sly commentary on materialism finds drama in the domestic and dark humor in every doomed attempt to express ourselves through what we own.
(Paperback)
By: Eleanor Hogan
ISBN: 9781742236599
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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Both famous in their day, Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill were bestselling writers who told of life in the vast Australian interior. Eleanor Hogan reflects on the lives and work of these indefatigable women. With sensitivity and insight, she wonders whether their work speaks to us today and what their legacies as fearless female outliers might be.
(Paperback)
By: Tim Winton
ISBN: 9780143574095
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: A. A. Milne
ISBN: 9780715655047
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th July 2023
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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With characteristic self-deprecating humour, A.A. Milne recalls the formative events of his life: from a blissfully happy childhood to the writing ofWinnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin.
(Paperback)
By: Tim Winton
ISBN: 9780143785972
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Barbara Else
ISBN: 9780143777618
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9781844086115
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A collection of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers, Maya Angelou.
(Paperback)
By: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9781784874001
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th December 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780141192246
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. From their meeting in 1921, Vladimir's letters to his beloved Vera form a narrative arc that tells a forty-six year-long love story. This book features these letters that tell us much about the man and the writer.
(Paperback)
By: Christina Jarvis
ISBN: 9781644213919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2024
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Natasha Trethewey
ISBN: 9781408840207
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780349017129
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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In this treasured modern classic, one of America's most celebrated memoirists and poets, Maya Angelou, shares the deepest personal story of her life: the story of her relationship with her mother.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
ISBN: 9780571346547
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 11th December 2017
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs is the lecture of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Tove Jansson
ISBN: 9781908745941
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2024
Publisher: Sort of Books
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Features Tove's seven page prose poem, The Island, published for the first time in the UK
(Paperback)
By: Monica Dickens
ISBN: 9780349016016
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A charming, funny and fascinating account of a young trainee nurse during the Second World War.
