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The Winter Wife by Claire Tomalin 9780573692888
Booksplease Price: £14.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573692888Author Claire TomalinFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint -
The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale by James Atlas
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35The biographer - so often in the shadows, kibbitzing, casting doubt, proving facts - here comes to the stage.James Atlas takes us back to his childhood in suburban Chicago, where he fell in love with... -
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. She tells of... -
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Jane 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... -
Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin 9780143112877
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112877Author Claire TomalinFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint -
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft is the acclaimed bestselling biography by Claire TomalinWinner of the Whitbread First Book PrizeWitty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was... -
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin 9780143122050
Booksplease Price: £23.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143122050Author Claire TomalinFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint -
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin 9780679766766
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £11.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679766766Author Claire TomalinFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint -
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Katherine Mansfield is the celebrated biography be bestselling author Claire Tomalin'One of the best biographies I have ever read: a perfect match of author and subject. It should become a classic' ... -
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From the acclaimed author of Charles Dickens: A Life comes a celebrated biography that casts new light on the remarkable diaries of Samuel Pepys.Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a... -
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin 9780141036939
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless... -
Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The seminal biography of a great poet, novelist and sacred figure in English writing, Thomas Hardy, from bestselling author Clare Tomalin. 'An extraordinary story, beautifully told. Tomalin is the... -
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographersHow did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?From his impoverished... -
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin 9780375725531
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Whitbread Book of the Year 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780375725531Author Claire TomalinForma -
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A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin 9780241239957 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.00A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life... -
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Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin 9780670917679 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £2.58Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great... -
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345803979Author Claire TomalinFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
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Wilkie Collins: Bk 6: Bk. 6 by Peter Ackroyd 9780701169909 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.82Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful clothes, 'as if playing a certain part in the great general drama of... -
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin 9780241963258
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin is the acclaimed story of Nelly Ternan and Charles DickensWinner of the NCR Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize'This is the... -
Eric Gill by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38A gorgeous new edition of Fiona MacCarthy's ground-breaking biography of the artist-craftsman, typographer, and lettercutter, master wood-engraver, and sculptor: Eric Gill.'Fascinating on the work... -
Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King by Claire Tomalin 9780241963296
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.29Mrs Jordan's Profession is the acclaimed biography of Dora Jordan by bestselling author Claire Tomalin'Intelligent, finely made and wonderfully readable. As gripping as the best fiction' Independent... -
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me – a Memoir by Deirdre Bair
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A 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... -
The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens Helena Kelly 9781837731299
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Think you already know the story of Charles Dickens' life? Think again.Almost everything you're familiar with was first mentioned in an authorised biography written by Dickens' close friend John... -
The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens by Helena Kelly 9781837731046
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Think you already know the story of Charles Dickens' life? Think again.Almost everything you're familiar with was first mentioned in an authorised biography written by Dickens' close friend John... -
Charles Dickens by Simon Callow 9780007445318
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42An exuberant and entertaining biography of Charles Dickens that captures the essence of the great novelist. Simon Callow's sparkling biography explores the central importance of the... -
Mrs Griffin Sends Her Love: and other writings by Miss Read
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.35A nostalgic collection on rural schools, childhood and English country life from the much-loved author of VILLAGE SCHOOL.From organising the school summer fete...'Because of our inability to... -
Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'This is my kind of history: carefully researched but so vivid that you are convinced Lucy Worsley was actually there at the party - or the parsonage.' Antonia Fraser'A... -
The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A. N. Wilson 9781786497932
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.29A Book of the Year in The Times & Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Spectator, Irish Times and TLS. 'Superb' Daily Mail, 'Book of the Week''Brilliant' The Times, 'Book of the Week''[A] vivid, detailed... -
Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was none the... -
Virginia Woolf Nigel Nicolson 9781474619820
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'You cannot find peace by avoiding life' Virginia WoolfAn intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author of them all - 'All you need to know about the modernist,... -
Jane Austen Carol Shields 9781474619783
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £8.05Bestselling, award-winning novelist writing about one of the most popular and enduring English novelists - recently voted best author of all time.'Splendid ... a gem' LITERARY REVIEW'An excellent... -
Oliver Twist & Me: In search of Charles Dickens's best-loved character by Nicholas Blincoe 9780349136387
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.55"A fascinating family and social history and a savage indictment of the role of child slavery in the growth of the Industrial Revolution," Catherine Taylor, author of The Stirrings: A Memoir in... -
Among You Taking Notes... Naomi Mitchison 9781399602518
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as they were then' GUARDIAN'She writes vividly and movingly' DAILY... -
Alanbrooke War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke by Lord Alanbrooke
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86'These are almost certainly the last secrets to be unlocked about the British high command in World War II' DAILY MAIL'Superb' SPECTATOR'A fascinating daily snapshot of the direction of the greatest... -
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex... -
London: Vintage Minis Charles Dickens 9781784876081
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85'Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together'Could any writer portray London better than Charles Dickens? Dickens knew the... -
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The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951 by John Julius Norwich 9780753821053 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £4.32The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper)'This is a fabulous, jaw-dropping read' SUNDAY TIMES'Duff Cooper was as close to... -
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951 by Lord John Julius Norwich
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper)'This is a fabulous, jaw-dropping read' SUNDAY TIMES'Duff Cooper was as close to... -
Dante in Love by A. N. Wilson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73With a biographer's eye for detail and a novelist's comprehension of the creative process, A. N. Wilson paints a masterful portrait of Dante Alighieri and unlocks one of the seminal works of... -
James Joyce by Edna O'Brien
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40One of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers turns her attention to one of the country's greatest novelists: James Joyce - in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the iconic classic ULYSSES.'As...