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By: Alan Bennett
ISBN: 9781781256497
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A new collection of Alan Bennett's diaries and more
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By: T. S. Eliot
ISBN: 9780571316380
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The eighth volume in the acclaimed series of selected letters from T. S. Eliot.
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By: Ted Hughes
ISBN: 9780571221387
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Delve into the letters of one of the most respected and cherished poets of the 20th century.
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By: Ted Hughes
ISBN: 9780571221394
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2009
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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This selection includes correspondence from Hughes's marriage to Sylvia Plath, and his letters to those he trusted reveal much about his feelings for her.
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By: Julian Barnes
ISBN: 9780099584537
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed
In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; then, finally, he gives us the story of his own grief, unflinchingly observed.
This is a book of intense honesty and insight;
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By: Christopher Isherwood
ISBN: 9780099561224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTON
Subtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in Londons Bohemia.
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By: Armistead Maupin
ISBN: 9781784161040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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In this funny, poignant and unflinchingly honest memoir, one of the worlds best-loved storytellers explains how he evolved from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to claim their own lives.
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By: Christina Jarvis
ISBN: 9781644212257
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 12th January 2023
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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By: Diana Athill
ISBN: 9781783787449
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2022
Publisher: Granta Books
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Diana Athill's account of her turbulent relationship with Black Power activist Hakim Jamal in the 1960s: raw and unflinching, a memoir of friendship, love, mania and injustice.
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By: Max Mallowan
ISBN: 9780007331246
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Agatha Christies widowers recollections of his archaeological triumphs and life with Agatha.
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By: John McGahern
ISBN: 9780571228119
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2006
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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'A glowing masterpiece.' - Hilary Mantel; the moving story of the great Irish novelist's childhood and family
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By: Gregor Von Rezzori
ISBN: 9781590172469
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2008
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2008
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Called "a rich, disquietingly good book" by The New York Times, the five interconnected stories in Memoirs of an Anti-Semite provide a panoramic yet intimate view of the deterioration of the European aristocracy in the years preceding World War II and the difficult decades that followed.
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By: Jesmyn Ward
ISBN: 9781408898727
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 19th April 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: J. G. Ballard
ISBN: 9780007272341
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, Empire of the Sun, this revelatory autobiography charts the course of his astonishing life.
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By: Michael Frayn
ISBN: 9780571270590
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A charming, moving and witty childhood memoir from one of Britain's best-loved writers.
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By: Christopher Isherwood
ISBN: 9780099561231
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOW
In 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties.
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By: Lady Antonia Fraser
ISBN: 9781780227948
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2015
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians.
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By: Isabel Allende
ISBN: 9780063021723
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Harold Evans
ISBN: 9780349122458
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* A moving memoir by a unique character which delivers a penetrating insight into some of the major events in post-war Britain
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By: Czeslaw Milosz
ISBN: 9780141392288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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After The Second World War, the author was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In this book, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation.
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By: Okey Ndibe
ISBN: 9781616958633
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Soho Press Inc
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The author of Foreign Gods, Inc. and Arrows of Rain tells his own immigrant's tale, where what is lost in translation is often as hilarious as it is harrowing.
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By: Angela Huth
ISBN: 9781472127044
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 14th February 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Angela Huth is one of our best-loved English authors: a writer of great elegance, compassion and nuanced observation. Not the Whole Story is her long-awaited memoir . . .
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By: Tove Jansson
ISBN: 9781908745934
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2021
Publisher: Sort of Books
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Tove's tribute to her island refuge and the art of Tuulikki Pietila.
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By: Julian Barnes
ISBN: 9780099523741
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher brother, a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard.
