(Paperback)
By: Jessica J. Lee
ISBN: 9780349008332
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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She swims to explore the natural history of fresh water and to examine her own place in the world. Turning is a nature memoir chronicling Jessica J. Lee's year of swimming in the lakes around Berlin.
(Paperback)
By: Allen Kurzweil
ISBN: 9780062416803
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Paperback, Main)
By: David Storey
ISBN: 9780571360321
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A masterpiece memoir by an extraordinary literary figure: rugby player, artist, acclaimed playwright and Booker Prize winning novelist.
(Hardback)
By: Chris Maclean
ISBN: 9780947503604
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Potton & Burton
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(Paperback)
By: Christina Stead
ISBN: 9780522862041
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Janet Frame
ISBN: 9780349018546
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The acclaimed autobiography of New Zealand's most revered writer. Introduced by Jane Campion, who made An Angel at My Table into an award-winning film.
(Paperback)
By: Pablo Neruda
ISBN: 9780374538125
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
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"The classic memoir of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, now expanded with newly discovered material"--
(Paperback)
By: Helene Hanff
ISBN: 9780751503845
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1993
UK Publication Date: 1st September 1982
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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This book is the story of the love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London.
(Hardback, Main)
By: Alasdair Gray
ISBN: 9781841956404
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
UK Publication Date: 22nd October 2010
Publisher: Canongate Books
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The autobiography in words and pictures of one of Britain's most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray
(Paperback)
By: Graham Greene
ISBN: 9780099282570
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1999
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 1999
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster.
(Hardback, Main)
By: David Storey
ISBN: 9780571360314
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A powerful memoir by an extraordinary literary figure; rugby player, artist, acclaimed playwright and Booker Prize winning novelist.
(Hardback)
By: Chris Paling
ISBN: 9781472134875
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 17th June 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The confessions of a midlist writer - what nobody sets out to be, but the destination of most.
(Paperback)
By: Chris Paling
ISBN: 9781472134882
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The confessions of a midlist writer - what nobody sets out to be, but the destination of most.
(Paperback)
By: Alvin Schwartz
ISBN: 9781594771088
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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Writer Alvin Schwartz received a great deal of attention from fans when he began talking publicly about his seventeen-year stint writing "Superman" and "Batman" comics. One of the individuals who contacted him was no ordinary fan, but a seven-foot Buddhist monk named Thongden, a tulpa or individual who was thought into being by a Tibetan mystic.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Louis MacNeice
ISBN: 9780571234387
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 17th January 2013
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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An essential collection of poems from one of Ireland's most treasured poets.
(Paperback, 20th Anniversary Edition edition)
By: Lorna Sage
ISBN: 9781841150437
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960's, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place and illuminates the lives of three generations of women.
(Hardback)
By: Elaine Showalter
ISBN: 9780349012292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby, written from 1920 to 1935, tell the story of an extraordinary friendship that created a model for a new kind of independent woman, after the First World War.
(Paperback)
By: Richard Wright
ISBN: 9781784876135
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: James Salter
ISBN: 9781447250708
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2014
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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An unforgettable book of passion, ambition, and what it means to become a writer.
(Paperback)
By: Christopher Hitchens
ISBN: 9781612196725
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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Meet Christopher Hitchens - one of this generation's greatest, and most divisive, thinkers.
(Paperback)
By: John Walsh
ISBN: 9781472133472
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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An elegy to a golden age of literature, Circus of Dreams divulges how the British literary scene underwent an unrecognisable transformation in the 1980s, almost eclipsing writers of the previous generation.
(Paperback)
By: Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780007487240
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Agatha Christies personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels.
(Paperback, Reprint)
By: Catherine Gildiner
ISBN: 9781770412569
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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(Hardback)
By: Catherine Gildiner
ISBN: 9781770412255
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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The third volume of Gildiner's memoirs takes us through her hijinks in Oxford (Cathy meets the British social system), inner-city Cleveland (Cathy teaches and challenges authority), and Toronto (Cathy lives in notorious Rochdale and meets her future husband).
