Biography: literary

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  • Agatha Christie Bingo

    £25.00

    Agatha Christie Bingo

    Play bingo with the Queen of Crime – collect characters, clues and murder weapons on your bingo card to win!

    £25.00
  • Ammonites and leaping fish

    £9.99

    Ammonites and leaping fish

    Taking in old age, the context of one’s life and times, memory, reading and writing, and the identifying cargo of possessions – two ammonites, a cat, a pair of American ducks and a leaping fish sherd, amongst others – this is an elegant, moving and deeply enjoyable memoir by one of our most loved writers.

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    £9.99
  • Bibliographic Austen

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    Bibliographic Austen

    The ‘Biographic’ series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world’s greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each of them in vivid snapshots. The result is a quickfire journey through truths and trivia that is the most entertaining way to follow in the footsteps of the men and women whose lives have most influenced our own.

    SKU: 9781781452929 Category: Tags: ,
    £9.99
  • Blythe spirit

    £25.00

    Blythe spirit

    Ronald Blythe (1922-2023), author of the inimitable ‘Akenfield’, was a prolific and poetic chronicler of rural and spiritual life, nature and literature. He spent a joyful century close to his Suffolk roots, time travelling in his imagination and publishing forty books and thousands of essays. His wide creative network included John and Christine Nash, Cedric Morris, Benjamin Britten, E.M. Forster, Patricia Highsmith and Richard Mabey. From finding Thomas Hardy in February rain and John Clare in country tracks, to talking to his white cat and reading through a dragonfly’s wings, the Blythe gift was to marvel in the everyday. Drawing on unparalleled access to letters, notebooks, published works, drafts, and conversations from decades of friendship, Ian Collins tells the full story of Ronald Blythe.

    £25.00
  • Charles Dickens

    £16.99

    Charles Dickens

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    £16.99
  • Decca

    £16.99

    Decca

    The letters of one of the most idiosyncratic, witty and politically engaged of the Mitford sisters are the stories of the 20th century: gossip and politics, war, the wonders of technological change and poignant personal struggles.

    £16.99
  • Firebrands

    £20.00

    Firebrands

    In 25 witty and vibrant biographical essays, Firebrands introduces us to a selection of brilliant and complex women writers about whom every discerning reader should know.

    £20.00
  • Geoffrey Chaucer

    £8.99

    Geoffrey Chaucer

    Covering Geoffrey Chaucer’s life and work, David Wallace considers the influence and enduring appeal of his body of writing, explores the wide ranging geography and iconic characters in his stories, and discusses how Chaucer’s own experiences contributed to his literature.

    £8.99
  • Goethe

    £25.00

    Goethe

    A ground-breaking biography of one of the greatest writers in history, and the masterpiece that changed our world.

    £25.00
  • Hardy women

    £25.00

    Hardy women

    A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER

    ‘He understands only the women he invents – the others not at all’

    £25.00
  • Hardy women

    £12.99

    Hardy women

    A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones

    ‘He understands only the women he invents – the others not at all’

    £12.99
  • I know why the caged bird sings

    £10.99

    I know why the caged bird sings

    In this, the first volume of her autobiography, writer and poet Maya Angelou reflects on her childhood spent growing up in the American South of the 1930s. There she learned the power of the white townsfolk and suffered the trauma of rape.

    £10.99
  • Ian Fleming

    £14.99

    Ian Fleming

    Here is a fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers. Ian Fleming’s greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, the British national psyche and global politics has shifted over time, as has the interpretation of the life of his author. But Fleming himself was more mysterious and subtle than anything he wrote.Ian’s childhood with his gifted brother Peter and his extraordinary mother set the pattern for his ambition to be ‘the complete man’, and he would strive for the means to achieve this ‘completeness’ all his life.

    SKU: 9781529920604 Category: Tags: ,
    £14.99
  • In pursuit of love

    £20.00

    In pursuit of love

    1863. The daughter of the most famous writer in the world, Victor Hugo, who was also a writer, diarist and composer, suddenly leaves her family’s home on the Channel Islands bound for Nova Scotia. She is in pursuit of a young British soldier, with whom she is desperately in love, but who has rejected her. Eight years later, after stalking him to the Caribbean, where he’s stationed with the army, Adèle Hugo is brought back to Paris by a benevolent former slave woman who has taken pity on her. She is admitted to an asylum where she dies decades later, rich from the inheritance of the rights to her father’s books. This story of hopeless love has inspired writers, composers, and a well-known film by François Truffaut. Yet much about Adèle Hugo’s tragic life has remained shrouded in mystery – not least the true character and identity of the soldier who ultimately contributed to her undoing.

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    £20.00
  • Jane Austen

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    Jane Austen

    In a country parsonage in the late 18th century, there lived a large family of seven children. They were all bright and clever and noisy, so nobody really noticed when little Jane turned quietly into a genius…

    £7.99
  • Jane Austen – daddy’s girl

    £22.00

    Jane Austen – daddy’s girl

    The Reverend George Austen has so often been painted as just a quiet, country clergyman. This book reveals he was anything but and that the parsonage Jane Austen lived in was a very lively and literary place.

    SKU: 9781399071123 Category: Tags: ,
    £22.00