Biography: writers

A Dangerous Liaison tells the intense, passionate and sometimes painful story of how these two brilliant free-thinkers - and rivals - came to a share a relationship that was to last over fifty years.

A funny, direct, lively and moving account of growing up in small-town Ireland.

Vanity Fair, published in serial parts in 1847-8, made William Makepeace Thackeray famous 'all but at the top of the tree', he told his mother, 'and having a great fight up there with Dickens'.

To mark the publication of Stop What You're Doing and Read This!

'Britain's greatest living nature writer' The TimesRediscover the extraodinary power of nature and the British wilderness, from award-winning naturalist and author Richard MabeyIn the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression.

Few writers have had as many distinct lives as Bruce Chatwin and few have been as compelling in person as in print.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Rivals, now a major series on Disney+During the ten years she lived at the edge of Putney Common Jilly Cooper walked daily on this expanse of green.

WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/ACKERLY PRIZE.

'Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional'The must-read gift for every runner: a compelling meditation on the power of running and a fascinating insight into the life of this internationally bestselling writer.

The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess milie du Ch telet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds.

In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot'

The life of Rosamond Lehmann was as romantic and harrowing as that of any of her fictional heroines.

EDITED BY AVRIL HORNER AND ANNE ROWE Destroy this and all letters.

First published between 1860-1861, "e;The Uncommercial Traveller"e; is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

This antiquarian volume contains 'A Backward Glance', Edith Wharton's detailed account of her life, both pubic and private.

This vintage book contains a detailed biography of William Blake.

A beautiful biography, thoroughly researched from family records, this biography looks past the success of her books to see the real women.

Dieses eBook: "Fragmente aus dem Tagebuche eines Geistersehers" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

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My father comes into focus for me on a Liars' Club afternoon.

As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African-American teenager named Patrick and his classmates.

The first instalment of his famed autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs is a hilarious and touching introduction to the life of the author, broadcaster, critic and poet, Clive James.

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'Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists.

The need to outgrow one's childhood influences and establish an individual identity is common to us all, but for Christopher Milne it was an especially difficult experience in view of the unique problems he faced as the son of A.

I loved A Curious Friendship.

The life of Siegfried Sassoon has been recorded and interpreted in literature and film for over half a century.

In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B.

My Days is the only memoir from R.

Novelist Celia Brayfield had never lived more than a taxi ride from Soho, until one day she decided to take a year off.

The fifth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small.

This is an unconventional memoir - a book of reflections upon the things that have been most important in Pamela Hansford Johnson's life.

From the author of The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon's The Book of My Lives is an unforgettable memoir of a life forever marked by international conflict.

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Journeying from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, Red Dust Road is a heart-stopping memoir, a story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny.

On childhood holidays to the western coast, Tim Winton's days followed a joyous rhythm.

In 1776 Foote's was the most talked-of name in the English-speaking world.

This remarkable double biography celebrates the interlocking lives of two of the greatest eccentrics of the 20th century: the brilliant and bizarre Quentin Crisp and the outlandish Philip O'Connor, whose careers first became entwined in Fitzrovia during the Second World War.

'What distinguished Clare is an unspectacular joy and a love for the inexorable one-thing-after-anotherness of the world' Seamus Heaney John Clare (1793-1864) was a great Romantic poet, with a name to rival that of Blake, Byron, Wordsworth or Shelley - and a life to match.

`In one of tje funniest biographies I have ever read, Lewis assembles all the excellently entertaining anecdotes about this deeply loved, much mocked, sometimes reviled figure whose departure has robbed the litarary world of its social smartness and any worthwhile eccentricity .

The Letters of Kenneth Tynan- drama critic, talent snob, intellectual dandy, inveterate campaigner - provide a record of a soul: written between the ages of 11 and 53, they not only chart the extraordinary parabola of his career but show the constancy of his quest for grace, style and effortless wit.

Candia McWilliam had just joined the judging panel of the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 2006 when she started to lose her sight.

Taha Hussein's classic autobiographical novelThe Dayshelped usher in the era of modern Arabic writing and remains one of the most influential and best-known works of Arabic literatureFor the first time, the three-part autobiography of one of modern Egypt's greatest writers and thinkers is available in a single paperback volume.

You're about to turn thirty, all your friends are getting engaged and pregnant - and your body-clock is ticking.

'You're Joseph Heller's daughter?

Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved.

John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century.

Though born into privilege and inheriting a fortune, Willie Donaldson ended up dying alone in a seedy rented flat, his computer still logged on to a lesbian porn site.