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From 1837 to 1861, Henry D Thoreau kept a "Journal" that would become the principal imaginative work of his career. This book presents Thoreau's "Journal".

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Full of enticing anecdotes culled from a fifty-year career, this is an engrossing book that provides an insider's view of the changing world of publishing. Jeremy Robson has published an extraordinary range of household names; writers, poets, actors, singers, sports people, cartoonists, newspaper columnists and politicians. .

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An arresting memoir of the final years and tragic suicide of one of twentieth-century Europe's greatest poets, published on the centenary of his birth.

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In this sequel to At the End of Darwin Road, Fiona Kidman takes us through the writing of over twenty more books, of her involvement in New Zealand's literary circles, her championing of writing and writers and the significant people she has met along the way.

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A glimpse into the lives of Countess Sophia Tolstoy and her husband Leo Tolstoy set against the grand and terrifying backdrop of aristocratic Russia

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The autobiography in words and pictures of one of Britain's most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray.

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Aftermath chronicles this perilous journey as the author redefines herself as a single woman and creates a new version of family life for her daughters.

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

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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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One of the most critically acclaimed memoirs ever written.

One of the ten books novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography that make up our Matchbook Classics series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist.

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A pitch-perfect memoir, brilliantly funny, wise and moving, of family, friends and political life over the last sixty years

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Christy Brown was born a victim of cerebral palsy. But the hapless, lolling baby concealed the brilliantly imaginative and sensitive mind of a writer who would take his place among the giants of Irish literature. He recounts his childhood struggle to learn to read, write, paint and finally type, with the toe of his left foot.

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A story of a childhood defined by loneliness, the absence of a father and the grim experience of a Quaker boarding school. But with gun-wielding school masters and sub-standard living conditions, Quaker boarding school wasn't much better.

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Collects Kate Jennings' best short work from the last four decades. She writes incisively about manners and morals, politics and economics, feminism and the writing life. She describes America with the keen eye of an outsider, and looks back at Australia with an expatriate's frankness. A fragmented autobiography and a record of remarkable times.