Biography: writers

The greatest plays of Terence Rattigan (1911-77) - including The Browning Version, The Deep Blue Sea, Separate Tables and The Winslow Boy - are now established classics.

"e;Entertaining, moving, informative, intelligently hopeful: I know of few other books like this one to warm the cockles of a booklover's heart.

On every page of this delicious book you will meet characters and situations that tell you this could only be New York.

A homage to a remarkable poet and his world.

In 1995, Adam Gopnik and his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris.

Martin Amis's life could itself provide the formula for an enthralling work of fiction.

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMENWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NOGA ARIKHA'Provocative but often funny, encyclopedic but down to earth .

In "e;Subconscious Religion,"e; Russell H.

A fascinating retelling of Oskar Schindler's extraordinary story and how it came to the world's attention through Thomas Keneally's Booker Prize-winning novel and the subsequent multiple Oscar-winning film, Schindler's List*27th January 2019: 25th anniversary of the movie, which will be re-released in the UK and Australia*In 1980 Thomas Keneally walked into a shop in Beverley Hills to buy a briefcase, an impulse that was to change his life.

There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever.

A full account of the tragic life of John "e;Jack"e; Kipling, son of Rudyard Kipling, lost in battle during World War I.

Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint's treasure was contested by the mongrel crew of the Hispaniola.

Many of the places, people, legends and seasons that formed Brown's vision and work are presented here, with poems appearing among the prose.

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her.

George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes.

LET NOT THE WAVES OF THE SEA is Simon Stephenson's account of his journey following the loss of his brother in the Indian Ocean tsunami.

In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably.

William Henry Davies was born in the Pillgwenlly district of Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, a busy port on July 3rd, 1871.

Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy.

This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century's most innovative and influential novelists.

Louise Erdrich is one of the most critically and commercially successful Native American writers.

This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth.

Paul Auster provides the first extended analysis of Auster's essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects.

This is the first dedicated biography of the extraordinary Irish woman, Eva Gore-Booth.

An adolescent girl is mocked when she takes a bath with her peers, because her genitals look like those of a boy.

Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy.

An adolescent girl is mocked when she takes a bath with her peers, because her genitals look like those of a boy.

Louise Erdrich is one of the most critically and commercially successful Native American writers.

This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth.

Paul Auster provides the first extended analysis of Auster's essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects.

This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century's most innovative and influential novelists.

The definitive illustrated biography of one of the most unique and beloved children's authors of the 20th century, the creator of the Moomins.

**WINNER of the 2019 PEN Ackerley Prize**'A major literary talent .

Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since.

This carefully crafted ebook: "Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

The most authoritative life of Eliot ever written, by acclaimed biographer Lyndall GordonT.

Winner of the Macallan Gold Dagger 2000 for non-fictionEdward Bunker's life is beyond the imaginings of most fiction writers.

This play, which contains biographical information relating to Herman Melville, is fundamentally an exploration of the ways in which these two things take place.

In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he had fled with his family as a child at the start of the Korean War.

Elizabeth Gaskell is equally well known as Mrs Gaskell.

Elizabeth Gaskell is equally well known as Mrs Gaskell.

Gender can be rendered invisible when the gendered nature of institutions is ignored or when the genders of participants in events or movements are not identified.

Gender can be rendered invisible when the gendered nature of institutions is ignored or when the genders of participants in events or movements are not identified.

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM, was born in Kirriemuir, Angus the ninth of ten children on May 9th, 1860.

This volume of Advances in Gender Research gives space and voice to trans peoples' experiences and interactions with various social institutions, including but not limited to, social media, healthcare and medicalization, the criminal justice system, and the family.

This volume of Advances in Gender Research gives space and voice to trans peoples' experiences and interactions with various social institutions, including but not limited to, social media, healthcare and medicalization, the criminal justice system, and the family.

The last decade has seen significant changes in global attitudes, policies and practices that impact the lives of trans people, but the world of sport has been slow to follow these initiatives.

'A hard-hitting beautiful memoir.

Yvonne Kapp, best known today for her biography of Eleanor Marx, was a remarkable woman whose life spanned virtually the entire twentieth century.

Basrayatha is a literary tribute by author Muhammad Khudayyir to the city of his birth, Basra, on the Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq.