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By: James Boswell
ISBN: 9780140432213
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1984
UK Publication Date: 31st May 1984
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Evelyn Waugh
ISBN: 9780141182933
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2000
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores the author's Oxford youth, his unexpected conversion, his literary enthusiasms (from P G Wodehouse to Graham Greene) and the perils of basing fictional characters on real people.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Jean Lucey Pratt
ISBN: 9781782115724
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2016
Publisher: Canongate Books
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Virginia Woolf meets Caitlin Moran - the extraordinary journals chronicling one ordinary woman's life, edited and introduced by Simon Garfield.
(Paperback)
By: John le Carr
ISBN: 9780241994559
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9780141186337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This title deals with the two artists, who at the height of their powers, answer their needs to document human struggle.
(Hardback)
By: Abigail Adams
ISBN: 9781598534658
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: The Library of America
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(Paperback)
By: Naomi Mitchison
ISBN: 9781399602518
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A unique wartime diary, written for the mass-observation project, by the doyenne of Scottish literature and celebrated left-wing political thinker Naomi Mitchison.
With a Foreword by Tessa Dunlop, TV presenter and bestselling author
(Paperback)
By: Tom Wilson
ISBN: 9780385685672
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Charles Bukowski
ISBN: 9781574231502
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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The letters contained on this text are filled with passionate, literary and personal observation, providing an insight into both Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli.
(Hardback)
By: Marwan Hisham
ISBN: 9780399590627
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: David O. Chief Brown
ISBN: 9781524796563
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Jenna Bailey
ISBN: 9780571282173
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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An extraordinary true story of motherhood, friendship and a secret magazine, which is both compelling and thought-provoking.
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By: Dora Carrington
ISBN: 9780701187583
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 23rd November 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Dora Carrington was considered an outsider to Bloomsbury. For over a decade she was the companion of gay writer Lytton Strachey, and killed herself, when he died in 1932. She was friends with the greatest minds of the day and her correspondence stars a roster of fascinating characters. This book deals with Carrington's letters.
(Paperback)
By: Dora Carrington
ISBN: 9781845951887
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Christopher Isherwood
ISBN: 9780099555827
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In 1939, Christopher Isherwood and W H Auden emigrated together to the United States. This title describes Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships with such gifted artists and intellectuals as Garbo, Chaplin, Thomas Mann, and more.
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By: Bob Rosenthal
ISBN: 9781936941131
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Little Bookroom,U.S.
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A 26-year-old starving poet needs $60. What else to do but register with a temp agency as a house cleaner The excitement never wanes as he is catapulted into the everyday yet unimaginable worlds behind closed (apartment) doors. Bob knows one thing: dirt will always win.
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By: Guy Debord
ISBN: 9781584350552
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Letters by writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary Guy Debord conjure a vivid picture of the dynamic first years of the Situationist International movement.
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By: Randal Keynes
ISBN: 9781848542020
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Film tie-in: an intimate portrait of Charles Darwin
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By: Derek Jarman
ISBN: 9781784877682
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In non-linear snippets and including photographs of Jarman's artwork, he describes his sexual awakening in post-war England, his early struggles to create and find recognition for his art, and vivid accounts of his friends, lovers, and inspirations.
(Paperback)
By: Mary Wesley
ISBN: 9781784704476
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Before her death in 2002, Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham: 'after I met Eric I never looked at anyone else again.
These remarkable letters, which were inspired by Mary's great love story with Eric, were also the means by which the novelist found her voice.
(Hardback)
By: David Lough
ISBN: 9781786697707
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The first ever collection of the letters between Churchill and his mother sheds revelatory light on the future wartime premier.
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By: Patrick Leigh Fermor
ISBN: 9781473622494
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
UK Publication Date: 15th June 2017
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road
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By: Louise Mortimer
ISBN: 9781472111265
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2014
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The delightful sequel to Dear Lupin. A collection of letters sent by Roger Mortimer to his youngest daughter, Louise, affectionately known as Lumpy.
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By: Charlie Mortimer
ISBN: 9781780332352
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
UK Publication Date: 28th March 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A charming, witty and touching collection of letters from a father to his son, that became a huge bestseller in hardback.
