The Private Life of Lord Byron by Antony Peattie
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Category: Literary Biographies
The Private Life of Lord Byron is a richly woven and intensely researched portrait of an unexamined side of the great literary figure. Lord Byron starved himself compulsively for most, though not all, of his life. His behaviour mystified his friends and other witnesses. Yet he never imagined he was ill; ...Show more
Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir by Hilary Mantel
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Category: Literary Biographies
From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall', a wry, shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, ghosts, hauntings, illness and family. At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her shape is like the full moon, her smile is beaming; the o ...Show more
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
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Category: Literary Biographies
Included in the BEST OF GRANTA series: the Costa-award winning memoir on what it means to grow old.
The Real Enid Blyton by Nadia Cohen
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Category: Literary Biographies
She is the most prolific childrens author in history, but Enid Blyton is also the most controversial. A remarkable woman who wrote hundreds of books in a career spanning forty years, even her razor sharp mind could never have predicted her enormous global audience. Now, fifty years after her death, Enid ...Show more
On Kim Scott : Writers on Writers by Tony Birch
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Category: Literary Biographies
'I value Kim Scott's fiction so highly because I feel that his approach is to put the flags aside. That Deadman Dance asks us not to consider who we were so much as who we could be, collectively, in the future.'Noongar writer Kim Scott has won the Miles Franklin Award twice for his novels. In this movin ...Show more
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies And Other Writing From The London Review Of Books by Hilary Mantel
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Category: Literary Biographies
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel, author of The Wolf Hall trilogy. In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be mo ...Show more
Late Romance - Anthony Hecht--A Poet's Life by David Yezzi
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Category: Literary Biographies
Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) was one of America's greatest poets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and widely recognized as a master of formal verse that drew on wide-ranging cultural and literary sources, as well as Hecht's experiences as a soldier during World War II, during which he fought in Germany and C ...Show more
The Marriage Question - George Eliot's Double Life by Clare Carlisle
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Category: Literary Biographies
In her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot--an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner, George Lewes--writer, philosopher, and married father of three. After "eloping" to Berlin in 1854, th ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 by Helen Garner
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Category: Literary Biographies
Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a powerfully ambitious writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, Helen Garner rails against the confines. A ...Show more
The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance by Ross King
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Category: Literary Biographies
A gripping story of ancient wisdom, new technology and 'the king of the world's booksellers', set in Renaissance Florence'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - th ...Show more
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins
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Category: Literary Biographies
The official biography of the award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett, written by Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the author's literary estate. 'PEOPLE THINK THAT STORIES ARE SHAPED BY PEOPLE. IN FACT, IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.' At the time of his death in 201 ...Show more
James Patterson: the Stories of My Life by James Patterson
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Category: Literary Biographies
'The master storyteller of our times' Hillary Rodham Clinton'The whole story of his truly astonishing life' Bob Woodward'The book was damn near addictive. I loved it' Ron Howard'At times his poignant narrative will bring you to tears' Patricia Cornwell'A compelling account of the life events that shaped ...Show more