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Facts and Fiction by Michael Holroyd
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63'As deft and devastating as a piece of non-fiction writing in miniature as you're ever likely to read ... A collection to be savoured, its urbanity, wisdom and humorous probing best digested at... -
On Wheels by Michael Holroyd 9780701187439
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Michael Holroyd confronts an army of automobiles in this charming book. Weaving together memoir and historical anecdote, he traces his relationship with cars through a lifetime of biography. Learning... -
A Dog's Life Michael Holroyd 9781848665248
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Eustace is undisputed patriarch of the Farquhar family. That is, he would be if everyone stopped mumbling, let him get on with his shaving and find his way downstairs. It's not Henry's fault that he... -
Book of Secrets by Michael Holroyd 9781250007667
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250007667Author Michael HolroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador... -
Augustus John: The New Biography Michael Holroyd 9781845951849
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.74This 1997 revised and updated biography of the celebrated artist, using the mass of new material which has come to light since Holroyd's two-volume first edition in the mid 1970s, reveals the... -
The Good Bohemian: The Letters of Ida John by Michael Holroyd
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'It is right that, after more than one hundred years, she should have her say' John Carey, Sunday Times Twelve days before her twenty-fourth birthday, on the foggy morning of Saturday 12 January... -
Basil Street Blues: A Memoir by Michael Holroyd 9780393321746
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.32Renowned biographer Michael Holroyd had always assumed that his own family was perfectly English, or at least perfectly ordinary. But an investigation into the Holroyd past-guided by old photograph... -
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Bernard Shaw by Michael Holroyd 9780099749011 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £2.70Holroyd has done a masterly job of cutting down his huge biography to a lively and manageable one-volume life - the definitive Shaw for the general reader and the student. It has verve and pace, the... -
Mosaic: A Family Memoir Revisited by Michael Holroyd 9780393327687
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.05After writing the definitive biographies of Lytton Strachey and George Bernard Shaw, Michael Holroyd turned his hand to a more personal subject: his own family. The result was Basil Street Blues,... -
Works on Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography by Michael Holroyd 9781619022768
Booksplease Price: £14.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619022768Author Michael HolroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CounterpointPublisher... -
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd 9780312429492
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £28.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312429492Author Michael HolroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 620Imprint St. Martins... -
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: 'masterly'GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 'An absolute tour de force'Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every... -
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The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble 9781782118305 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.67NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: 'masterly' GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 'An absolute tour de force' Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys... -
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The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble 9781782118336 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.98NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017: 'masterly'GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 'An absolute tour de force'Fran may be old but she's not going without a fight. So she dyes her hair, enjoys every... -
The Daphne Du Maurier Companion Daphne Du Maurier 9781844082353
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88'A marvellous celebration of du Maurier's life, work and cultural legacy' SARAH WATERS 'She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense' GUARDIAN 'One of the last century's most... -
The Du Mauriers Daphne Du Maurier 9781844080649
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA. 'Miss du Maurier creates on the grand scale . . . observation, sympathy, courage, a sense of the romantic, are here' OBSERVER 'It is my pick of the Spring... -
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A Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble 9780140122282 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.42Liz, Alix and Esther are old friends whose lives continue to cross and uncross. As the years pass, they are more than ever disposed to question, to re-evaluate, to examine their motives and... -
Breaking Light by Karin Altenberg
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Steeped in its bleak and beautiful landscape, Mortford is a place of secrets and memories: of bitter divisions and shattered dreams. Returning to this Dartmoor village where he grew up, Gabriel... -
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Breaking Light by Karin Altenberg 9781780877174 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Steeped in its bleak and beautiful landscape, Mortford is a place of secrets and memories: of bitter divisions and shattered dreams. Returning to this Dartmoor village where he grew up, Gabriel... -
Writers in Conversation: v. 3 by Christopher Bigsby 9780956422347
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.91WRITERS IN CONVERSATION compiles Christopher Bigsby's interviews with the world's greatest writers from a decade of the Arthur Miller Centre's International Literary Festival at the University of... -
In Collaboration with British Literary Biography: Haunting Conversations by Jane McVeigh 9783319583822
Booksplease Price: £80.72This book is about one person's reading and what has been learnt about how the lives of other people, particularly authors, have been written in British literary biographies over the last fifty years... -
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.23A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, Margaret Drabble'sThe Millstone won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1965.It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is... -
In Collaboration with British Literary Biography: Haunting Conversations by Jane McVeigh 9783319863948
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £71.54This book is about one person's reading and what has been learnt about how the lives of other people, particularly authors, have been written in British literary biographies over the last fifty years... -
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Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain 9780099548430 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.05'One of the great imaginative creations in English literature' Daily TelegraphA dazzling novel of loyalty and dreams set in Restoration England.The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and... -
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 9781513264707
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.30"Shaw will not allow complacency; he hates second-hand opinions; he attacks fashion; he continually challenges and unsettles, questioning and provoking us even when he is making us laugh. And he... -
Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales by Mark Bostridge 9780826475732
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £28.91Biography is well recognised as a peculiarly British vice. Lives for Sale is an anthology of essays by some of the best biographers now writing in Britain. They tell of the ups and downs of life... -
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The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble 9780140297164 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £3.00It is 1905, and Bessie is a small child living in a South Yorkshire mining town. Unusually gifted, she sits quietly and studies hard, waiting for the day when she can sit the Cambridge entrance exam... -
The Art of Dora Carrington by Jane Hill 9780713657265
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.99At the age of 38, Dora Carrington (1893-1932) committed suicide, unable to contemplate living without her companion, Lytton Strachey, who had died a few weeks before. The association with Lytton and... -
Shakespeare's Creative Legacies: Artists, Writers, Performers, Readers by Peter Holbrook 9781474234481
Booksplease Price: £29.88We celebrate Shakespeare as a creator of plays and poems, characters and ideas, words and worlds. But so too, in the four centuries since his death in 1616, have thinkers, writers, artists and... -
Young Romantics by Daisy Hay 9781408809723
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.99'A most impressive achievement' Michael Holroyd 'Enthralling' Sunday Times 'Masterly' Telegraph _______________________ 'The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn' - John Keats In Young... -
Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales by Mark Bostridge 9780826487841
Booksplease Price: £18.18Biography is well recognised as a peculiarly British vice. This new anthology is a collection of essays by some of the best biographers now writing in Britain. They tell of the ups and downs of life... -
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories by Margaret Drabble
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades, she examines the intense private worlds and... -
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble 9780241979174
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is young and... -
Portraits of Women: Gwen John and Her Forgotten Contemporaries Alison Thomas 9780745618289
Booksplease Price: £21.84This is the first major group study of the lives and work of Edna Clarke Hall, Gwen John, Ida Nettleship and Gwen Smith whose work constitutes a previously neglected area of twentieth century British... -
Painted Ladies by Lynn Bushell 9781912240487
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16For twenty-five years, the legendary Marthe has been Pierre Bonnard's companion and muse. His new model Renee, lovely and captivating, thinks it's time her rival stepped aside. But Marthe won't give... -
Life Writing by Sara Haslam
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Life Writing offers the novice writer engaging and creative activities, making use of insightful, relevant readings from well-known authors to illustrate the techniques presented. This volume makes... -
Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable Ball, she decides she has no choice but to... -
Island of Wings by Karin Altenberg
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.66Longlisted for the Orange Prize 2012. 1830. Neil and Lizzie MacKenzie, a newly married young couple, arrive at the remotest part of the British Isles: St Kilda. He is a minister determined to save... -
Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'One of the great imaginative creations in English literature' Daily TelegraphA dazzling novel of loyalty and dreams set in Restoration England.The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and... -
The Confessions of Frannie Langton: The Costa Book Awards First Novel Winner 2019 by Sara Collins
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A haunting tale about one woman's fight to tell her story, The Confessions of Frannie Langton leads you through laudanum-laced dressing rooms and dark-as-night alleys, into the heart of Georgian...