Biography: writers

'Make this your next inspirational read.

The poignant biography of Anita Leslie, only woman to have been awarded both the Croix de Guerre and the Africa Star in World War II.

'Fascinating scholarship.

In his touching and amusing memoir Chance Meetings, William Saroyan gives us a glimpse of the characters that have left an indelible impression on his mind for years to come.

'I have tried to depict Arnold Bennett as a man of character and integrity, a fundamentally innocent humorist, a superlative friend, and, to others, not myself, a difficult personality; but I have worked under considerable difficulties, with many interruptions, and the result may be unsatisfactory.

With a rare blend of grace, warmth, and scholarship, Leslie Stainton raises the stakes of our appreciation for the greatest of Spain's modern poets, Federico Garca Lorca.

1816 was the fateful year when the Romantic poet Shelley and his lover Mary shared a hectic creative and sexual menage in Switzerland with Lord Byron.

Ann Bridge, besides being a famous author, was also, in her own words, a person who frequently has, when awake, inexplicable 'knowings' of events taking place at a distance: and, in dreams, am informed, sometimes uncomfortably, of facts of which I can have no knowledge by normal means .

The authorized biography of playwright and novelist, Sir James Barrie.

As a novelist, biographer, editor, and screenwriter, Nicholas Mosley has always been concerned with the central paradox of writing: if by definition fiction is untrue, and biography never complete, is there a form that will enable a writer to get at the truth of a life?

Somerset Maugham was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer.

First published in 1978 Fa ades details the lives of three of the twentieth century's most intriguing literary figures: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell.

From the author of All the Money in the World and The Profession of Violence comes the definitive biography of James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming.

From the author of All the Money in the World, now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott, comes an account of a phenomenon and a legend in her lifetime, Barbara Cartland.

The last of Alexandre Dumas's many mistresses, the American actress Adah Menken, called him "e;the king of romance.

This Latest Volume of Autobiography opens in 1934, in an isolated hamlet in the Cotswolds.

Tolstoy was not always an old man-not always a bearded patriarch fixing the world with the eye of an angry ancient mariner.

Part of Croft-Cooke's series of autobiographical works, The Sensual World.

First published in 1982, this penetrating, immensely readable biography of the brilliant poet, translator, and art critic, F.

First published in 1967, this tells of an Author, publisher, traveller, cricketer, lover of wine: Alec Waugh has been all these in the course of a life which has brought him a host of friends around the world.

The eloquent and intimate biography of one of the most significant figures of the last century.

Dame Edith Sitwell died while this autobiography was in the course of printing.

In this latest volume in Mr.

The appearance of this self-portrait by Patrick White is a literary event for which his readers and admirers have long hoped.

Philip Roth one of the most renowned writers of his generation hardly needs introduction.

An extraordinary book of real passionate research Edmund de WaalIn 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War.

Gustave Flaubert, whose Madame Bovary outraged France's right-thinking bourgeoisie when it was first published in 1857, is brought to life in Frederick Brown's new biography in all his singularity and brilliance.

'[W]hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (.

As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers.

Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces.

'A brilliant, unlikely book' SpectatorHow can we celebrate, challenge and change our remarkable world?

Mary Wesley published her first novel at seventy and went on to write a further nine bestsellers, including the legendary The Camomile Lawn, in a style best described as arsenic without the old lace.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKSOnce upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter.

You put together two things that have not been put together before.

'Superlative.

Of all the poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen most fires the imagination today this is the comprehensive literary biography of the greatest WW1 poetWilfred Owen tragically died in battle just a few days before the Armistice.

'One of the best literary biographies of the year.

A collection of writings by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle WalkerAlan Garner is an exceptional lecturer and essayist.

Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration of the Romantic Movement and the dramatic events that shaped it.

Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years writing for Hollywood, but by 1945 he had all but ceased to write fiction and even abandoned his habit of keeping a diary.

In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W.

'An invigorating discussion of general ills, this collection of autobiographical essays ranges over adultery and parenthood, ghosts and gods, fiction and football.

From Dylan Thomas s eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath s desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton s Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats death warrant in a smudge of arterial blood, the deaths of poets have often cast a backward shadow on their work.

From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down.

The critically acclaimed memoir from the well-loved broadcaster Gerry AndersonGerry Anderson broadcast every day out of Londonderry, which once upon a time was called Doire Colmcille, evolving, under the influence of the English, into LondonDerry in the 17th century.

In this final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries, capstone of a million-word masterwork, he greets advancing age with poignant humour and an unquenchable appetite for the new.

In 1966 Will Cohu's grandparents moved to Bramble Carr, a remote cottage on the Yorkshire moors.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 WELLCOME TRUST BOOK PRIZEHow do you lose music?

WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD NBCC AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE 2017 SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, Spectator and ObserverAngela Carter s life was as unconventional as anything in her fiction.

The definitive biography of Wilkie Collins: the Victorian novelist, playwright, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White, who lived a life of sensation.