Biography: writers

Lambda Literary Award finalistIn 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place.

Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer is an engaging narrative that contains new and important findings about Laurence's life and career.

Just Mary and Maggie Muggins are names that will arouse memories in those who grew up with CBC radio and television in the 1940s and 1950s.

This book reveals how the author dealt with a life that, as far he was concerned, had been challenged spiritually and ethically.

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Après les récits captivants du livre Era il mio paese (2014) Cristiano Parafioriti revient avec les autres histories sur Galati Mamertino, son village natal en Sicile.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Voices From The Past Series)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

The ultimate meaning of the Russian Revolution which took place on March 7, 1917, can be best understood through the pages of the Journal of Leo Tolstoi which is here printed.

This book makes no attempt to fill the place either of a critical study or a definitive biography.

Beacon Lights of History is a 14-volume set first published in 1902.

A Personal Record (1912) both documents and fictionalizes Joseph Conrad's early life and the opening stages of his careers as a writer and as a seaman.

James Allen's "e;The Eight Pillars of Prosperity"e; is a timeless classic that offers profound insights and practical wisdom on achieving lasting success and fulfillment.

Xavior Zevon's book Crazy Chick Magnet sees him getting a rough start at life as a nerdy kid with awkward tendencies and a bowl haircut to boot.

Who Can I Turn to Now, tells the story of my life.

International bestseller Le la Slimani's elegant meditation on life and death, art and beauty, translated by Sam Taylor 'A revelation - I have never felt more seen by a book, nor have I been so gripped' KATY HESSEL'An engaging meditation' DAILY TELEGRAPHIn 2019, Le la Slimani was commissioned by her editor to spend a sleepless night alone in a museum and to document the experience.

Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.

WITH A NEW FOREWORD AND REVISED INTRODUCTION'A superb biography .

'I wanted to climb inside this book and live there' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE'This witty, fascinating book is a delight.

'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait'- GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***'Worsley's sparkling biography brings a fresh eye to Christie's life and work, firmly busting the myth that she, or her novels, were cosy.

Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives?

'During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed.

DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical.

The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering and inspiring account of a life in books.

'One of my favourite living writers: intelligent, lucid and, most impressive of all, funny' - Jonathan CoeIf we're talking agoraphobia, we're talking books.

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford PrizeThe Top Ten BestsellerWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the MonthA Sunday Times Paperback of the Year 'If you want to read a book that moves you both at the level of sentence and the quality of language and with the emotional depth of its subject matter, then A Fortunate Woman is definitely the book you should be reading' - Samanth Subramanian, Baillie Gifford judgeWhen Polly Morland is clearing out her mother's house she finds a book that will lead her to a remarkable figure living on her own doorstep: the country doctor who works in the same remote, wooded valley she has lived in for many years.

Two magnificent memoirs by Aleksandar Hemon, presented together in a glorious single edition: together they make a major work from one of our major writers.

Down and Out in Paris and London was George Orwell's first published book.

Homage to Catalonia remains one of the most famous accounts of the Spanish Civil War.

'Dazzlingly and daringly written' Rachel Cooke, ObserverW-3 is a small psychiatric ward in a large university hospital, a world of pills and passes dispensed by an all-powerful staff, a world of veteran patients with grab-bags of tricks, a world of dishevelled, moment-to-moment existence on the edge of permanence.

'Brown Baby is a beautifully intimate and soul-searching memoir.

Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.

'One of the most eloquent thinkers about our life in language' The Sunday TimesTime Lived, Without Its Flow is a beautiful, unflinching essay on the nature of grief from critically acclaimed poet Denise Riley.

Explosive and unforgiving, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater describes in searing detail the pleasure, pain and mind-expanding powers of opium.

A joyful, playful celebration of Lewis Carroll's love of language combined with an introduction to his life and the origin of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, exquisitely illustrated by Julia Sarda.

Hailed as one of the greatest western novelists of all time, French author Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) first became famous for his debut novel "e;Madame Bovary"e; (1857), a seminal work of literary realism that resulted in Flaubert being put on trail for obscenity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, theologian, literary critic, philosopher, and co-founder of the English Romantic Movement.

First published in 1915, this volume contains Theophile Gautier's biography of the French poet, art critic, and essayist Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867).

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet, art critic, and essayist who was among the first people to translate the work of Edgar Allen Poe.

"e;Remembering Keats"e; is a brand-new collection of poetry and essays by various authors dedicated to English Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821).

"e;My Reminiscences"e; is Rabindranath Tagore's 1917 memoir written just before he embarked on a trip to Europe and America in 1912 due to his bad health.

As a remedy to sleeplessness, Charles Dickens used to take to wandering the streets of London at night for long stretches of time.

In 1763, an 11-year-old boy named Thomas Chatterton began publishing mature works of poetry.

First published in 1914, "e;Shelley - An Essay"e; is a treatise on the life and work of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley by Francis Thompson.