Literary Figures

Vanessa 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...

Apologies 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.

At 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...

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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 novel in nearly a decade. He travelled for the first time to Venice and there, at a duck shoot in the...

Apologies 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 *...

A 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...

An 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 ...

'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: 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...

Johnson, 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...

'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...

The 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...

Apologies 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

At 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...

Apologies 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...

John 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Itself 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...

An 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...

'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 . . ...

Over 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...

Monk'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...

This 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, 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...

Apologies 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)...

Agatha 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...

Apologies 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

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Apologies 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)...

In 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,...

Nicholas 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...

In 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...

Take 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...

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Bruce 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...

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The 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...