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This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.Writers Who Chang...

This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of...

Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall...these fictional masterpieces are all recognised as landmarks of English Literature. Sti...

The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering and inspiring account of a life in books.Malori...

Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet...

The perfect gift for fans of All Creatures Great and Small, this is a charming collection of classic stories from James Herriot's much-loved books ...

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Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in...

Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. Loo...

'That word, "vacation," makes me sweat.' Coco Chanel on taking a break'You must do it irregardless, or it will eat its way out of you.' Zora Neale ...

Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's acclaimed biography of A. A. Milne, one of the ...

The original authorised biography, and the only one written by an author who actually met J.R.R. Tolkien, reissued to mark Tolkien's 125th Annivers...

Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, C...

Jane Was Here is a whimsical, illustrated guide to Jane Austen's England - from the settings in her novels and the scenes in the wildly popular tel...

An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices__________________'A father...is a necessary...

'His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelations of both India and himself' - The TimesAn Area o...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITS In 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusett...

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING SAOIRSE RONANWITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHORTHE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE AND ...

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LULLABY, AND TRANSLATED BY SAM TAYLOR'A revelation - I have never felt more seen by a book, nor have...

In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude - rec...

‘This book kept me alive.’Love and Fury is the compelling and intimate account of the life, loves and furies of Margie Orford. In this brave memoir...

'Now that he is dead, we can know him better.'Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep....

John le Carre was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, poli...

Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? As Lucy Worsley says, 'She ...

John le Carre was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, poli...

A story of hope, love and life in the face of cancer, and the miracle of second chancesWhen Delia's beloved first husband Jerry died of cancer in 2...

In How to Feel Better, bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink shares the advice that has seen her through life's ups and downs. From her etiquette f...

A powerful and urgent memoir by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja - a remarkable woman who went from being a beloved star on Chinese children's TV to ...

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There s never been a period when Shakespeare was out of fashion. In his lifetime he was incredibly successful, and soon after his death his works w...

Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels...

Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement'This lucid and riveting new biography at once rescuses Kierkegaard from the scholar...

Pocket Maya Angelou Wisdom is a collection of some of her best and most empowering quotes. This is the ultimate keepsake for fans of Maya Angelou's...

Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary...