Biography: writers

Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman s bold, new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul and what it means to be a self.

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A famous poet, a mysterious death and a story stranger than fiction.

A deeply moving and personal portrait of the extraordinary life of Sir Terry Pratchett, written with unparalleled insight and filled with funny anecdotes, this is the only official biography of one of our finest authors.

'Outstanding.

'Utterly engaging.

*The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller*Rose Tremain (or Rosie as she was then) grew up in post-war London a city still partly in ruins, where both food and affection were fiercely rationed.

A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain.

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The year is 1851.

A wonderfully candid and insightful account of a writer s life William BoydLuck, good or bad, plays an important part in a writer s career.

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THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017Over a career spanning nearly fifty years Edward Garnett editor, critic and publisher s reader would become one of the most influential men in twentieth-century British literature.

The first full biography of a neglected genius and one of the great Modernists, lavishly illustrated in colour throughout I would like to have done anything as good as David Jones has done Dylan ThomasAs a poet, visual artist and essayist, David Jones is one of the great Modernists.

Words have power.

Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarkable new translation.

When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario?

In early 2014, after many years living abroad, Sam Miller returned to his childhood home in London.

The years from 1939 to 1955 proved to be the most prolific of Graham Greene's life.

Before her death in 2002, Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham: 'after I met Eric I never looked at anyone else again.

'Hastings is one of our greatest living biographers' Simon Heffer, Daily TelegraphSybille Bedford's life contained all the grand feeling and seismic events of the twentieth century: war and peace, love and trauma, friendship and death.

The final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer G nter Grass a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, and the world.

Patrick Deeley's train journey home to rural East Galway in autumn 1978 was a pilgrimage of grief: his giant of a father had been felled, the hurley-making workshop silenced.

Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T.

FREDERICK FORSYTH HAS SEEN IT ALL.

Ngugi wa Thiong o s powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978.

The great leader of the women s suffrage movement tells the story of her struggles in her own words.

'I was wowed and moved' Tracy Chevalier Anne Bront is the forgotten Bront sister, overshadowed by her older siblings - virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily and dissolute Branwell.

*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize*In late eighteenth-century London, a group of extraordinary people gathered around a dining table once a week.

What would happen if society was run by women?

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Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSelected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the GuardianWhen Ngugi wa Thiong o arrives at the prestigious Makerere University, it embodies all the potential and excitement of the early 1960s.

The poet George Barker was convinced that his biography could never be written.

'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England.

***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.

Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess.

After returning from a trip to Brunei, Anthony Burgess, initially believing he has only a year to live, begins to write - novels, film scripts, television series, articles.

Albert Camus is among the most significant French writers of the twentieth century.

Unquestionably one of the greatest novelists of his time, Graham Greene had always guarded his privacy, remaining aloof, mysterious and unpredictable.

The final volume of the definitive authorised biography of one of the greatest American writers.

In this exquisite, haunting book, John Burnside describes his coming of age from the industrial misery of Cowdenbeath and Corby to the new world of Cambridge.

He was a debt-ridden dandy, a mid-ranking novelist armed with enormous political ambition.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Canny, infuriating, cynical and generous by turns, Felix Dennis was a true one-off.

'The mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck - It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.

'Laura Thompson's outstanding biography .

The Waugh family has been writing books since the nineteenth century.

'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times6 April 2007Writing income for the year so far: minus 300'I feel that this might just be the year in which something happens.

'Breathtaking untold story .

'A delightful memoir' Kate Saunders, The Times'Fabulous .

Agatha Christie s 80 novels and short-story collections have sold over 2 billion copies in more than 45 languages, more than any other author.