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Have You Been Good?: A Memoir by Vanessa Nicolson 9781783780785
RRP: $19.48$13.07Vanessa Nicolson is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. She was born to an illustrious name and an unhappy marriage. Her father, the art historian Ben Nicolson, was homosexual and his marriage to Vanessa's Italian mother fell... -
Joyce Carol Oates: Letters To A Biographer by Joyce Carol Oates 9781636141169
RRP: $54.58$35.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141169Author Joyce Carol OatesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S. -
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History by Sir Richard J. Evans 9780349141435
RRP: $29.23$19.11At the time of his death at the age of 95, Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was the most famous historian in the world. His books were translated into more than fifty languages and he was as well known in Brazil and Italy as he was in Britain and the United... -
Faber & Faber: The Untold Story by Toby Faber 9780571339051 [USED COPY]
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Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse by Andrea di Robilant 9781782399407 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$5.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse by Andrea di Robilant
RRP: $19.48$10.35National Geographic Traveller's the best books on European cities, 2019In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway was approaching fifty and hadn't published a novel in nearly a decade. He travelled for the first time to Venice and there, at a duck shoot in the... -
Out of Africa ; and, Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen 9780679724759
RRP: $35.10$24.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724759Author Isak DinesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me – a Memoir by Deirdre Bair
RRP: $25.33$16.69A The Times & Sunday Times Literary Nonfiction Book of the Year'Fascinating... Wonderfully entertaining and absorbing' Sunday Times'Gripping... A story well told.' New York Times Book ReviewFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2020In 1971... -
My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing by Carl Phillips 9780300274141
RRP: $19.48$16.75An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture "Illuminating, deeply endearing essays."-Ron Charles, Washington Post "A lovely, loving letter to aspiring writers."-Diego Baez, Booklist ... -
A Memoir of Jane Austen: and Other Family Recollections by James Edward Austen-Leigh
RRP: $17.53$12.58'I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal obscurity was so complete.' James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the... -
Anne Bronte Reimagined: A View from the Twenty-first Century by Adelle Hay
RRP: $19.48$13.26Anne Bronte: for so long underestimated, from her own day to modern times. But why exactly has this remarkably talented and pioneering author been so overlooked? Anne's writing has often been compared harshly with that of Charlotte and Emily - as if... -
Samuel Johnson: A Life by David Nokes
RRP: $25.33$16.69Johnson, born weak and half-blind, shambolic and poverty-stricken, became the most admired and quoted man in the eighteenth century. Thrown out of Oxford for a lack of funds, he rose to celebrity: author of the Dictionary, a friend to the king, companion... -
The Incest Diary by Anonymous
RRP: $19.48$13.86'Raw, relentless ... Feverish' New Yorker 'This is a devastating book about harm. It's about the harm that is unleashed when one person swaps their humanity for what you can really only call evil' Sunday Times 'A controlled, exquisitely written... -
Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. by Lili Anolik 9781471190247
RRP: $19.48$12.50The goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and a graduate of Hollywood High, Eve Babitz posed in 1963, at age twenty, playing chess with the French artist Marcel Duchamp. She was naked; he was not. The photograph made her an instant icon of art and sex. Babitz... -
A Monk Swimming by Malachy McCourt
RRP: $21.43$14.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566494168Author Malachy McCourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Welcome Rain PublishersPublisher Welcome Rain Publishers -
Young Emma by W. H. Davies
$14.55At the age of fifty, towards the end of the First World War, W. H. Davies decided that he must marry. Spurning London society and the literary circles where he had been lionised since the publication of his Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, he set about... -
Flame Into Being: The Life and Work of D.H. Lawrence by Anthony Burgess
RRP: $19.48$13.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385920Author Anthony BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 197mm... -
Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps by Ursula Buchan
RRP: $21.43$15.15John Buchan's name is known across the world for The Thirty-Nine Steps. In the past one hundred years the classic thriller has never been out of print and has inspired numerous adaptations for film, television, radio and stage, beginning with the... -
Into the Mountain by Charlotte Peacock
RRP: $29.23$19.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916542Author Charlotte PeacockFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
This Wide Terraqueous World by Laird Hunt 9781566896672
RRP: $25.33$20.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566896672Author Laird HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House Press -
Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram Van Velde by Charles Juliet
RRP: $21.43$14.39Itself a mixture of idolatry, deft characterization, and critical insight, "Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram Van Velde" is both an entertaining and insightful contribution to our understanding of the lives and thoughts of two masters.About the... -
George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls
RRP: $29.23$22.13An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in... -
Wandering Through Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon 9781529153422
$25.00'As the author reaches her 9th decade [this makes] for a fascinating insight into her life and world, albeit with discretion and leaving tantalising hints at what lies beyond. One for the fans (and friends).' Crime Time'Leon's elegant, witty prose . . ... -
Great Tales Never End, The: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien by Richard Ovenden
$64.14Over more than four decades J.R.R. Tolkien's son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkien, published some twenty-four volumes of his father's work, much more than his father had succeeded in publishing during his own lifetime. Standing on the mountain... -
Virginia Woolf's Garden: The Story of the Garden at Monk's House by Caroline Zoob 9781909342132
RRP: $58.50$39.78Monk's House in Sussex is the former home of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It was bought by them in 1919 as a country retreat, somewhere they came to read, write and work in the garden. From the overgrown land behind the house they created a brilliant... -
Walking Wounded: The Life and Poetry of Vernon Scannell by James Andrew Taylor 9780199603183
$61.72This uncompromising biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first child, a boxer and brawler, a wife-beater, a bigamist, and a passionately romantic lover. It is also, most... -
T H White: A Biography by Sylvia Townsend Warner
RRP: $27.28$18.06T H White, author of the much-loved The Sword in The Stone, The Once and Future King, The Goshawk, and many other works of English literature, died in Greece from a heart attack in 1964, aged 57. When the eminent novelist and critic Sylvia Townsend... -
Cracks in My Foundation: Bags, Trips, Make-Up Tips, Charity, Glory, and the Darker Side of the Story: Essays and Stories by Marian Keyes by Marian Keyes 9780060787035
RRP: $29.23$19.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060787035Author Marian KeyesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Mallowan's Memoirs: Agatha and the Archaeologist by Max Mallowan
RRP: $19.48$12.95Agatha Christie's widower's recollections of his archaeological triumphs and life with Agatha. In these informal, often witty and always interesting memoirs, Sir Max Mallowan tells the story of his life, from his boyhood at Lancing where he... -
Easier Ways to Say I Love You by Lucy Fry
RRP: $17.53$12.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408597Author Lucy FryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions -
Life of J.k. Huysmans by Brendan King
$24.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903517437Author Robert BaldickFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd -
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen 9780374602390
RRP: $58.50$38.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374602390Author Tove DitlevsenFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
A Winter on the Nile by Anthony Sattin
RRP: $31.18$22.64In the winter of 1849, Florence Nightingale was an unknown 29-year-old - beautiful, well-born and deeply unhappy. After clashing with her parents over her refusal to marry, she had been offered a lifeline by family friends who suggested a trip to Egypt,... -
Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years by Nicholas Frankel
$57.25Nicholas Frankel presents a new and revisionary account of Wilde's final years, spent in poverty and exile on the European continent following his release from an English prison for the crime of "gross indecency" between men. Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant... -
William Wordsworth: A Life by Stephen Gill
RRP: $56.53$40.33In this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat the poet's later years as of little interest, this... -
Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan by Arthur Waley
RRP: $17.53$12.09Take a firsthand journey into a time, society and world full of intrigue. In the tenth century, Japan stood physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Sei Shonagon-a young courtesan of the Heian period-kept a diary, which provides a... -
Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099289975 [USED COPY]
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Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
RRP: $33.13$23.95Bruce Chatwin's death in 1989 brought a meteoric career to an abrupt end, since he burst onto the literary scene in 1977 with his first book, In Patagonia.Chatwin himself was different things to different people: a journalist, a photographer, an art... -
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith by Richard Bradford 9781448217908 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.00$7.18Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Devotion by Patti Smith
RRP: $27.28$23.89The National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process "Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought-provoking enough to deserve...