Life, Love and the Archers: Recollections, Reviews and Other Prose by Wendy Cope
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Category: Literary
Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour. For the first time, Life, Love and the Archers brings together the best of her prose - recollections, reviews and essays from the light-hearted to the serious, taken from a lifeti ...Show more
Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather by Karen Lamb
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Category: Literary
Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather is the long-overdue biography of Australian author Thea Astley (1925 - 2004). Over a fifty-year writing career, Astley published more than a dozen novels and short story collections, including The Acolyte, The Slow Natives and, finally, Drylands in 1999. She was th ...Show more
Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart
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Category: Literary
Gary Shteyngart's parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer, or at least an accountant, something their distracted son was simply not cut out to do. Fusing English and Russian, his mother created the term Failurchka - 'Little Failure' - which she applied to her son. With love. Mostly. A candid and p ...Show more
Machiavelli: A Portrait by Christopher Celenza
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Category: Literary
Machiavellian used to describe the ruthless cunning of the power-obsessed and the pitiless is never meant as a compliment. But the man whose"name became shorthand for all that is ugly in politics was more engaging and nuanced than his reputation suggests. Christopher S. Celenza s Machiavelli: A Portrait ...Show more
Tennessee Williams by John Lahr
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Category: Literary
John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched b ...Show more
Virginia Woolf: A Portrait by Viviane Forrester
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Category: Literary
Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Forrester's biography draws on revelations about the author that often remain buried and carefully applies the ...Show more
B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal by J C Hallman
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Category: Literary
A funny, frisky, often outrageous book about love, literature, and modern life--and a wink of the eye to"U and I," Nicholson Baker's classic book about John Updike--by an award-winning author called "wonderfully bright" by "The New York Times Book Review." Nearly twenty-five years ago, Nicholson Baker p ...Show more
Inside a Pearl My Years in Paris by Edmund White
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Category: Literary
Edmund White was forty-three years old when he moved to Paris in 1983. He spoke no French and knew just two people in the entire city, but soon discovered the anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. White fell passionately in love with Paris, its beauty in the half-light and eternal mists; i ...Show more
Evelyn Waugh by Martin Stannard
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Category: Literary
This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 voulme set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge i ...Show more
Updike by Adam Begley
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Category: Literary
Updike is Adam Begley's masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike--a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work.In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portr ...Show more
Sempre Susan - A Memoir of Susan Sontag by Sigrid Nunez
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Category: Literary
From the author of the novel The Friend, a poignant, intimate memoir of one of America's most esteemed and fascinating cultural figures, and a deeply felt tribute. Sigrid Nunez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure known for her polemical essays, blinding ...Show more
Being There by David Malouf
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Category: Literary
Words, music, art and performance. The stuff of a satisfying life. After exploring the idea of home, where and what it is in A First Place, what does it mean to be a writer and where writing begins in The Writing Life, David Malouf moves on to words and music and art and performance in Being There. With ...Show more