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The Green Fool by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: $25.33$17.73My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be seen talking to, but he left doors open as he passed. A delightful autobiographical novel from one of Ireland's best-loved... -
In the Footsteps of Du Fu by Michael Wood 9781398515444
RRP: $33.13$21.61'Superb... Beautifully written and thoroughly researched' - Guardian A beautifully illustrated travelogue, chronicling the life and work of one of the world greatest poets. Du Fu (712-70) is one of China's greatest poets. His career coincided with... -
North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
RRP: $19.48$13.77From Fleet Street to the television, North Face of Soho is the fascinating and hilarious fourth volume of memoir from much-loved author, poet and broadcaster Clive James.'[James] delivers his gags with honed elegance' - Sunday TimesIt is 1968. Newly... -
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $39.00$26.25Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years.Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes us from scenes of a teenage home-life coloured by tragedy and silence... -
Wandering Through Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon 9781529153415
RRP: $39.00$27.87'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 . . ... -
The Essential Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore 9780674417045
RRP: $50.60$41.38The Essential Tagore showcases the genius of India's Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diverse serious writer the world has ever known.Marking the 150th anniversary of Tagore's birth, this ambitious... -
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John Le Carre 9780241976890
RRP: $19.48$13.86THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF SPY-WRITING LEGEND JOHN LE CARRE*NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION PICTURE*'As recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial TimesFrom his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a... -
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
RRP: $19.48$12.95Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging... -
Between the Covers: Jilly Cooper on sex, socialising and survival by Jilly Cooper
RRP: $17.53$11.54'No one else can make me laugh and cry quite like Jilly Cooper.' Gill Sims'Jilly Cooper's non-fiction is just as entertaining as her novels.' Pandora Sykes____________________'One truth I have learnt, as middle age enmeshes me like Virginia creeper, is... -
A Tale Of Love And Darkness by Amos Oz
RRP: $21.43$15.15Discover Amos Oz's most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation*OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE*'A hero of mine, a moral as well as... -
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
RRP: $21.43$15.93***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4***NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Gordon has reunited mother and... -
Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo by Peter Richardson
RRP: $46.80$35.96A superbly crafted study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation, achievement, and continuing relevance. Savage Journey is a "supremely crafted" study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation and achievement. Focusing on Thompson's... -
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
RRP: $19.48$13.86'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless. I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no... -
D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider by John Worthen
RRP: $35.08$25.25D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider is an illuminating and clear-sighted portrait of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant, radical and misunderstood writers.John Worthen follows Lawrence's from his awkward and intense youth in... -
An Angel At My Table: The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame
RRP: $25.33$16.77NOW AN AWARD-WINNING FILM ON NETFLIX 'One of the great autobiographies written in the twentieth century' MICHAEL HOLROYD, SUNDAY TIMES'Irresistibly readable, commendably honest' FLEUR ADCOCK, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'The Janet Frame of An Angel at My... -
Pam Ayres - The Works: The Classic Collection by Pam Ayres
RRP: $25.33$17.73The Works contains 120 of Pam Ayres' best-known poems, including 'The Battery Hen', 'Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?', 'Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire, Mother' and, of course, 'Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth'.This... -
Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby 9780241996478
RRP: $19.48$13.86'A joyful examination of two artists from different centuries and the unlikely parallels in their life and work' Guardian'An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to reread Great Expectations whilst listening to Sign o'the Times'... -
Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith
RRP: $11.68$8.70One of Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 and an FT Best Book of the YearThought-provoking and deeply consoling, a perfectly distilled set of essays on the strangest year many of us have experienced, from one of our wisest and most humane... -
Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist - the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate by Simon Armitage
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Extremely funny' Sunday Telegraph _____________________________A poet is a rock star without the sex'n'drugs, or the rock'n'roll. But that never stopped Simon Armitage dreaming, and in Gig, he explores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in... -
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins
RRP: $48.75$32.23WINNER OF THE 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION'Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real Terry.' - Neil Gaiman'Sometimes joyfully, sometimes painfully,... -
The Story of a Life: ‘A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement’ Telegraph by Konstantin Paustovsky
RRP: $29.23$22.13Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarkable new translation.'Outstanding... A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement' Telegraph'One of the great Russian autobiographies, as fresh now as the day it... -
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $25.33$17.73Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman'As near perfect a life of Austen as we are likely to get:... -
Tangled Paths: A Life of Aby Warburg by Hans C Hoenes 9781789148510
RRP: $48.75$34.36Tangled Paths tells the life story of Aby Warburg, one of the most influential historians of art and culture of the twentieth century. It also tells the story of a man who, throughout his life, struggled to assert his place in the world. Charting... -
Collected Poems by Laurie Lee 9780241625170
RRP: $39.00$27.87A landmark new collection of poems from the author of Cider with RosieLaurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His evocative poetry springs from his deep connection with nature, as he tracks the seasons changing and the years turning... -
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
RRP: $21.43$14.27Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Collins Classics) by Frederick Douglass
RRP: $5.83$4.56HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. Born into slavery during the early nineteenth century,... -
Women Like Us: A Memoir by Amanda Prowse
RRP: $17.53$11.95Amanda Prowse has built a bestselling career on the lives of fictional women. Now she turns the pen on her own life. I guess the first question to ask is, what kind of woman am I? Well, you know those women who saunter into a room, immaculately... -
Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl 9780241677292
RRP: $15.58$11.29We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.This beautiful edition of Boy, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is perfect for Dahl fans old and new.So, enter... -
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes by Maya Angelou
RRP: $19.48$13.26A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography, beginning with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD... -
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
RRP: $29.23$24.47*THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh, the creator of the immensely popular blog 'Hyperbole and a Half' and #1 New York Times bestselling author, returns with her new collection. Solutions and Other Problems... -
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses by Bess Lovejoy
RRP: $19.48$13.16In the long run, we're all dead. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated and even filed away in a... -
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne
RRP: $25.33$16.54A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England's greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his... -
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson
RRP: $17.53$12.58'Wonderfully readable... Emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them' MAIL ON SUNDAY. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald... -
Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel 9780993009372
RRP: $19.50$13.38Mireille Gansel grew up in the traumatic aftermath of her family losing everything-including their native languages-to Nazi Germany. In the 1960s and 70s, she translated poets from East Berlin and Vietnam to help broadcast their defiance to the rest of... -
Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann by Frederic Spotts 9780300218008
RRP: $68.25$66.90Son of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann's comparatively short life was as artistically productive as it was devastatingly dislocated. Best-known today as the author of... -
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour
RRP: $21.43$13.88'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022 An... -
Selected Letters by Charlotte Bronte
RRP: $19.48$13.86'Dangerous as lucifer matches.' That was how Arthur Nicholls, Charlotte Bronte's husband for the last nine months of her life, described her letters. Full of acute observations, pithy character sketches, and passionate convictions, the letters are our... -
One Pair of Feet: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens ... she's blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe by Monica Dickens
RRP: $19.48$13.26INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearted and blissfully funny' NINA STIBBE ' Humorous, moving and fascinating' CLARE MACKINTOSH Considering herself unsuitable for any other... -
The Writer's Garden: How gardens inspired the world's great authors by Jackie Bennett 9780711277168
RRP: $58.50$37.83See inside the gardens where literary giants from Tolstoy to Agatha Christie created some of their finest works in this visually stunning and fascinating book. Discover the flower gardens, vegetable plots, landscapes and writing hideaways of 30 great... -
Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson
RRP: $39.00$27.87A Financial Times Music Book of the Year 2023'Key to understanding black British history' - Sunday Times'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie SmithRecognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential political and...