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Literary Biographies

  • Virginia Woolf And Vanessa Bell: A Very Close Conspiracy

    Jane Dunn
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  • The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

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    THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF SPY-WRITING LEGEND JOHN LE CARRE 'As recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial Tim...

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  • Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

    Icon Books
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    'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline C...

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  • The Secret Lives Of Booksellers & Librarians - True Stories Of The Magic Of Reading (Paperback)

    James Patterson, Matt Eversmann
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    No. 1 bestselling author James Patterson shares true stories from booksellers and librarians in this love letter to the heroes of literacy, who ope...

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  • Memoirs of My Former Self

    Wordsworth Books
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  • Hermit: A Memoir of Finding Freedom

    Wordsworth Books
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  • The Little Book of Mark Twain: Wit and wisdom from the great American writer

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    Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, is one of the most famous writers in American (and world) literature. Twain h...

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  • Writers Who Changed History

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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...

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  • Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance (Paperback)

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

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  • Orwell

    Wordsworth Books
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  • The Bronte Sisters: Life, Loss and Literature

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

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  • Just Sayin': My Life In Words

    Cornerstone
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    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...

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    Orwell

    D.J. Taylor
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  • Shakespeare: The World as a Stage

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

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  • The Wonderful World of James Herriot (Hardcover)

    James Herriot
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    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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  • Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse

    Wordsworth Books
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    National Geographic Traveller's the best books on European cities, 2019In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway was approaching fifty and hadn't published a...

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    After Kathy Acker: A Biography

    Chris Kraus
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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...

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  • Climbing Higher: Sindiwe Magona

    Dianne Shober
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  • A Moveable Feast (Paperback)

    Ernest Hemingway
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    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...

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    Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work

    Mason Currey
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    '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 ...

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  • Goodbye Christopher Robin: A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh

    Wordsworth Books
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    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 ...

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  • J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography

    Humphrey Carpenter
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    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...

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    Jane Austen: A Life

    Wordsworth Books
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    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...

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  • Jane Was Here: An illustrated guide to Jane Austen's England

    Wordsworth Books
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    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...

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