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Library of Luminaries: Jane Austen: An Illustrated Biography by Zena Alkayat 9781452150215
RRP: $33.05$22.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781452150215Author Zena AlkayatFormat HardbackImprint Chronicle BooksPublisher Chronicle BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 155mm * 155mm * 18mm -
The Voluble Soul: Thomas Traherne's Poetic Style and Thought by Richard Willmott
RRP: $45.83$42.96"The world's fair beauty set my soul on fire." In this first study of the full range of Traherne's poetry Richard Willmott explains his 'metaphysical' poetry to all who are attracted by the beauty of his language, but puzzled by his meaning. He offers... -
A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen by Morten Hoi Jensen
RRP: $53.63$44.64Beautifully written and incisive, this is the first English biography of a major Scandinavian author who is ripe for rediscovery "[An] elegantly realized biography . . . returning the authentic Jacobsen to a new generation of English readers."-Dustin... -
The Tale of the Rose by Consuelo de Saint-Exupery 9780812967173
RRP: $39.00$27.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812967173Author Consuelo de Saint-ExuperyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller by Kathleen Jones 9780748643547
RRP: $64.35$60.18Weaving together intimate details from Katherine Mansfield's letters and journals with the writings of her friends and acquaintances, Kathleen Jones creates a captivating drama of this fragile yet feisty author: her life, loves and passion for writing... -
Shakespeare by Joseph Piercy 9781910821060
RRP: $19.48$13.26Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Shakespeare is a fascinating collection of surprising revelations, quirky characters and other fascinating pieces of trivia from the world of the great English bard. From the stories behind his well-known plays and poems,... -
Brief Lives: Wilkie Collins by Melisa Klimaszewski 9781843919155 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.58$4.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843919155Author Melisa KlimaszewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press LtdWeight(grams) 180gDimensions(mm)... -
Hollywood: A Third Memoir by Larry McMurtry 9781439159965
RRP: $27.30$21.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439159965Author Larry McMurtryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis de Veaux
RRP: $48.75$38.06During her lifetime, Audre Lorde (1934-1992), author of the landmark Cancer Journals, created a mythic identity for herself that retains its vitality to this day. Drawing from the private archives of the poet's estate and numerous interviews, Alexis De... -
Anya Seton: A Writing Life by Lucinda H. MacKethan
RRP: $52.55$39.29Anya Seton was the bestselling author of ten historical novels, including the masterpieces Katherine and The Winthrop Woman, which are still widely beloved over sixty years after their original publication. Yet there has never before been a book-length... -
The Black Veil by Rick Moody 9780316739016
RRP: $42.88$30.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316739016Author Rick MoodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian by Suzanne Raitt 9780198122982
RRP: $195.00$158.79May Sinclair's 1904 novel, The Divine Fire, made her a household name in both Britain and the US. From then on she was a prominent figure in many of the literary and cultural movements of her day. A committed if ambivalent feminist, she published in the... -
Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life: Volume II: The After-War World by Max Saunders 9780199668359
$77.73The second volume of Max Saunders's magisterial biography of Ford Madox Ford takes up the story from Ford's enlistment in the army and departure for France in 1916. Like its predecessor, The After-War World makes full use of previously unpublished and... -
The Diaries of Waguih Ghali: An Egyptian Writer in the Swinging Sixties 1964 - 66 by May Hawas 9789774167805
RRP: $48.73$39.57In 1968 Egyptian novelist and political exile Waguih Ghali committed suicide in the London flat of his editor, friend, and sometime lover, Diana Athill. Ghali left behind six notebooks of diaries that for decades were largely inaccessible to the public... -
The Greatest Need: The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias, a Welsh Jew in Palestine by Jasmine Donahaye 9781909983236
RRP: $21.43$14.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909983236Author Jasmine DonahayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 348g -
A Pearl of Great Price: The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas to Pearl Kazin by Jeff Towns 9781909844681
RRP: $19.50$16.09New York, May, 1950. A warm Spring day and a short, and portly, thirty-five year old Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, pushes through the plush revolving doors of Harper's Bazaar, in the heart of bustling downtown Manhattan. He was taking a chance on offering 'A... -
Who Wrote Bacon?: William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon and James I, a Mystery of the Twenty-first Century by Richard Ramsbotham 9781902636542
RRP: $29.23$24.47For years a popular debate has been raging about whether Shakespeare really was the author of the many famous plays and poems published in his name. Shakespeare could not have accomplished this great feat, argue the doubters, and point instead to other... -
The Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron by Edward Trelawney 9780786707362
$26.95Vividly recalled and brilliantly recorded, Edward Trelawney's intimate, affecting account of Shelley and Byron at the peak of their poetic powers takes these two magnetic personalities out of the shadows of their exile and into the light of his acute... -
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence by David Waldstreicher
RRP: $58.50$37.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809098248Author David WaldstreicherFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir by Professor Wole Soyinka
RRP: $40.95$29.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375755149Author Wole SoyinkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast by Megan Marshall
RRP: $33.13$21.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328745637Author Megan MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm... -
Resurrecting Jane de La Vaudere: Literary Shapeshifter of the Belle Epoque by Sharon Larson
RRP: $163.70$144.55This engrossing narrative recounts the story of Jane de La Vaudere (nee Jeanne Scrive), a prolific and celebrated writer of France's Belle Epoque. Interweaving biography and literary analysis, Sharon Larson examines the ways in which La Vaudere adapted... -
Papillon [movie Tie-In] by Henri Charriere 9780062882462
RRP: $35.08$21.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062882462Author Henri CharriereFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 408g -
Pushing boulders by Athol Williams 9780994667663
RRP: $35.08$29.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994667663Author Athol WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Staging PostPublisher Staging Post -
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi by Michael John Franklin 9781786835406
RRP: $33.13$25.53This is the first biography to foreground the importance of Hester Lynch Piozzi's Welsh heritage throughout her long life. As one anonymous reader put it, 'Few eighteenth-century Welsh writers long resident in England continued to identify as strongly... -
Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Morton N. Cohen
RRP: $52.65$38.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679745624Author Morton N. CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 579gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
RRP: $46.80$31.88In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the most vexing demons yet: her childrenIn the long out-of-print sequel to Life Among the Savages, Jackson's four children have grown from savages into... -
Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters by William Allen Speck 9780300197679
RRP: $50.70$48.46In his lifetime Robert Southey was very much the equal of his fellow 'Lake poets', Coleridge and Wordsworth. But since his death his reputation has been overshadowed by their success. In this new biography W. A. Speck argues that if Southey's poetry is... -
Goronwy Rees by John Harris 9780708316771
RRP: $9.73$7.88After gaining an Oxford fellowship at the age of 21, Goronwy Rees (1909-79) went on to write for the "Guardian" and the "Spectator" before becoming Principal of the universiy College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1953. A Marxist intellectual turned cold... -
Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother by Eve LaPlante 9781451620672
RRP: $37.03$23.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451620672Author Eve LaPlanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
Irene Nemirovsky: Her Life and Works by Jonathan Weiss 9780804754811
RRP: $48.73$38.82On July 13, 1942, French gendarmes arrested Irene Nemirovsky in southern Burgundy. She was deported to Auschwitz where she died on August 19. Who was this woman, author of more than a dozen popular novels and more than thirty short stories, whose... -
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed by Daniel Mark Epstein 9780805071818
RRP: $33.13$25.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805071818Author Daniel Mark EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint St. Martins Press-3plPublisher St. Martins Press-3plWeight(grams) 485g -
Hemingway and Bimini: The Birth of Sport Fishing at "The End of the World" by Ashley Oliphant 9781561649716
RRP: $23.38$17.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561649716Author Ashley OliphantFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
Letters of C. S. Lewis by C S Lewis
RRP: $38.98$25.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062643568Author C S LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Hemingway's Key West by Stuart B McIver 9781561642410
RRP: $15.50$11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561642410Author Stuart B McIverFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 254g -
J. D. Salinger: a Life by Kenneth Slawenski
RRP: $50.70$35.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982596Author Kenneth SlawenskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays by Shirley Hazzard
RRP: $54.60$43.29Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They... -
Jack Kerouac: A Biography by Tom Clark 9780859652506
RRP: $25.33$16.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859652506Author Tom CassidyFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life by Pamela Smith Hill 9780977795567
RRP: $25.25$18.41In Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life, Pamela Smith Hill delves into the complex and often fascinating relationships Wilder formed throughout her life that led to the writing of her classic Little House series. Using Wilder's stories, personal... -
Living and Writing on the Coast of Maine by Lea Wait 9780996408424
RRP: $19.46$16.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996408424Author Lea WaitFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Sheepscot River PressPublisher Sheepscot River PressWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 203mm...