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  • Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists: Shelagh Delaney * Edna O'Brien * Lynne Reid Banks * Charlotte Bingham * Nell Dunn * Virginia Ironside * Margaret Forster

    Celia Brayfield
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    'Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it's Oprah's Book Club worthy' Vice In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women'...

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    Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and a Daughter

    Lyndall Gordon
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    Lyndall Gordon was born in 1941 in Cape Town, a place from which `a ship takes fourteen days to reach anywhere that matters'. Born to a mother whos...

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    A Still Life: A Memoir

    Josie George
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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BARBELLION PRIZE 2021 'A manifesto for recalibrating' DAILY MAIL 'I can't think of many books where the reader feels so passio...

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  • Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People

    Rick Gekoski
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    The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn' 'Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only by the ent...

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  • The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

    The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

    Suleika Dawson
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    A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of the Year 2022 A Waterstones Best Book o...

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  • The World of Virginia Woolf: A 1000 Piece Puzzle

    Eleanor Taylor
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    1000-PIECE PUZZLE that makes a perfect gift for fans of Virginia Woolf and her work. INCLUDES A PULL-OUT POSTER so you can spot all the characte...

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  • As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Paperback)
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    As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Paperback)

    Laurie Lee
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    As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie Abandoning the Cotswolds village that r...

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  • Fires Which Burned Brightly: A Life in Progress (Paperback)

    Wordsworth Books
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  • I Am, I Am, I Am (Paperback)

    Maggie O'Farrell
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    Down And Out In Paris And London (Hardcover)

    George Orwell
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    Down and Out in Paris and London was George Orwell's first published book. It is at once a very personal account, and a vivid expose of hard lives ...

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  • My Family And Other Animals

    Gerald Durrell
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    Gerald Durrell's beloved classic memoir, now published as a beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition 'When My Family and Other Animals was ...

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  • Fires Which Burned Brightly (Hardcover)

    Sebastian Faulks
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    In Fires Which Burned Brightly, Faulks, a reluctant memoirist, offers readers a series of detailed snapshots from a life in progress. They include ...

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  • The Crack-up

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    Compiled and published after Fitzgerald's death by his friend, the prominent critic and editor Edmund Wilson, The Crack-Up is a collection of writi...

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  • All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes (Paperback)

    Maya Angelou
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    A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal wo...

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  • The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot (Paperback)

    Rebecca Mead
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    At the age of seventeen, Rebecca Mead read Middlemarch for the first time, and has read it again every five years since, each time interpreting and...

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  • Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home (Paperback)

    Susan Hill
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    Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgot...

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  • Eliot After The Waste Land

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  • 9780141998596

    Rural Hours (Paperback)

    Harriet Baker
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    A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024'A fascinating look at the impact of country home-making on the lives and work of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warn...

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  • Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka

    Karolina Watroba
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  • We Two From Heaven: A Memoir (Paperback)

    James Whyle
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    We Two from Heaven is a singular memoir, a four-part fugue on the tricks and traps of memory, a shuffling of the cards of time. Episodes from the e...

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  • The Life And Lies Of Charles Dickens

    Helena Kelly
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  • The Imperfect Life Of T. S. Eliot (Paperback)

    Lyndall Gordon
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    T. S. Eliot once spoke of a lifetime burning in every moment. He had the mind to conceive a perfect life, and he also had the honesty to admit he c...

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  • Ian Fleming

    Vintage Publishing
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    A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming fam...

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  • Getting Away With Murder (Paperback)

    Lynda La Plante
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    Lynda La Plante has lived an illustrious life and has the stories to prove it.From her early days in Liverpool to her unexpected acceptance into RA...

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