Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Ambition and Betrayal (HB) by Laurence Leamer
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
'A glittering insight into the high society world of Capote's swans. The ruthless betrayal of the muse by the artist leaves you breathless.' Anna Pasternak 'There are certain women,' Truman Capote wrote, 'who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich.' These women captivated and enchanted Cap ...Show more
The Secret Life of John le Carre by Adam Sisman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carre was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait ...Show more
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carre 1945-2020 by John le Carré, John le Carre
$26.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
A collection of letters from John le Carre, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood to his final yearsA Private Spy spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carre's own life but the turbulent times to which he was witness ...Show more
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef
$12.00 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo of horns honking; the shouts of street vendors; the television sets and radios blaring from every sidewalk. Nadia Wassef knows this song by heart. In 2002, with her siste ...Show more
Wandering Through Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals and summers spent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Donna ...Show more
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith by Richard Bradford
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace' - Patricia Highsmith (New Year's Eve, 1947). Made famous by the great success of her psychol ...Show more
William Shakespeare: a Brief Life by Tiffany Stern (Series edited by); Paul Menzer; Peter Holland (Series edited by); Zachary Lesser (Series edited by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies | Series: Arden Insights Ser.
This engaging and fresh biography begins by examining how Shakespeare's life turns into myth so comfortably as to seduce even the most sceptical scholar. The early departure, the late return. Public success, private loss. A twilight of plays about family reunions, a death at home in the biggest house in ...Show more
P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters by P. G. Wodehouse
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
This is the definitive edition of P.G. Wodehouse's letters, edited with a commentary by Oxford academic Sophie Ratcliffe. One of the funniest and most admired writers of the twentieth century, P.G. Wodehouse always shied away from the idea of a biography. A quiet, retiring man, he expressed himself thro ...Show more
Eleven Letters to You by Helen Elliott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
Helen Elliott’s Eleven Letters to You is a profoundly original memoir, an intimate account of growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne in the fifties and sixties, before feminism. This sparkling, wonderfully absorbing book is written in the form of eleven letters to those neighbours, relatives, friends, ...Show more
Not Just Jane: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature by Shelley DeWees
$10.00 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
"Not Just Jane restores seven of England's most fascinating and subversive literary voices to their rightful places in history. Shelley DeWees tells each woman writer's story with wit, passion, and an astute understanding of the society in which she lived and wrote." -Dr. Amanda Foreman, New York Times ...Show more
42 The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams by Kevin Jon Davies (Editor); Douglas Adams
$59.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
Over 60 boxes full of notebooks, research, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches, to-do lists, hard drives and even poems...Welcome to the incredible archive of Douglas Adams. After his death in 2001, Douglas Adams's papers were loaned to his old Cambridge college, St John's. Reproduced here, in facsimile ...Show more
How We Might Live At Home with Jane and William Morris by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
William Morris - poet, designer, campaigner, hero of the Arts & Crafts movement - was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still with us today: but his wife Jane is too often relegated to a footnote, an artist's model given no history or personal ...Show more