Biography & Autobiography: Literary
"Eric and Us"The Postscript Edition
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With 38 b/w photographs, 1 map. Paperback, 200 pages. Size: 216 x 135 mm. Weight: 37g.
Author: Buddicom, Jacintha Venables, Dione
ISBN: 0955370817
Publisher: Finlay Publisher
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
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"A Lie About My Father"
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A memoir of two lost men: a father and his child. It is about forgiving, about examining the way men are made and how they fall apart, about understanding that in order to have a good son you must have a good father. \ New ed. Paperback, 336 pages. Size: 197 x 128 mm. Weight: 231g.
Author: Burnside, John
ISBN: 0099479532
Publisher: Vintage
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
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"John Milton"Life, Work, and Thought
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The first biography of Milton based on original research for 40 years, and first to take account of new thinking about 17th-century England. Milton is seen here as flawed, passionate, ruthless, and ambitious, as well as one of the most accomplished writers of the time and author of the most influential narrative poem in English. With 48 halftones. Hardback, 512 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 917g.
Author: Campbell, Gordon Corns, Thomas N.
ISBN: 0199289840
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
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"Off the Road"Twenty Years With Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg
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Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Kerouac's seminal 'On the Road', Carolyn Cassady's 'Off the Road' tells the intimate story of two of the most famous, and yet most enigmatic, figures in modern literature - Jack Kerouac and his friend, travelling companion and hero, Neal Cassady. Written by the woman who loved them both - as wife of Cassady, sometime lover of Kerouac - it is the remarkable record of marriage to the man whose exploits, as Dean Moriarty in 'On the Road', caught the imagination of a generation and fired that Beat Movement. With ill. Paperback, 480 pages. Weight: 399g.
Author: Cassady, Carolyn
ISBN: 0948238372
Publisher: Black Spring Press Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
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"Dickens"Shadows and Ghosts
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With 38 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations. Paperback, 132 pages. Weight: 287g.
Author: Cundill, Barry
ISBN: 1902645502
Publisher: Highgate Publications (Beverley) Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
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"Sleeping Arrangements"
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Features an American memoir of growing up in New York with eccentric uncles. New ed. Paperback, 240 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 202g.
Author: Cunningham, Laura Shaine
ISBN: 0747579326
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
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"Virginia Woolf"
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Attempts to answer the question - 'in what does Virginia Woolf's greatness consist?' With 40 b&w photographs. Paperback, 250 pages. Size: 230 x 142 mm. Weight: 510g.
Author: Curtis, Anthony
ISBN: 190579147X
Publisher: Haus Publishing Limited
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
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"Party of the Century"The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black-And-White Ball
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In 1966, everyone who was anyone wanted an invitation to Truman Capote's Black and White Dance in New York, and guests included Frank Sinatra, Norman Mailer and more. Illustrated with photographs and drawings of the guests, this work is for anyone interested in American popular culture and the lifestyles of the rich, famous, and talented. With illustrations. Hardback, 304 pages. Size: 239 x 162 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author: Davis, Deborah
ISBN: 0471659665
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Date: 2006 (United States)
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"Write From the Heart"The Extraordinary Real Life Story of Glasgow's Favourite Novelist
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Tells the story of how, against all odds, Margaret Thomson Davis became a successful writer. From an early age, Margaret's father would tell her and her younger brother frightening bedtime stories. And, when her brother then had nightmares, young Margaret would make up a 'nice' story to calm him down and get him off to sleep. With 8 pp black & white photographs. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 421g.
Author: Davis, Margaret Thomson
ISBN: 1845020928
Publisher: Black and White Publishing
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
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"Melville"His World and Work
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Herman Melville was born into a family that in the fledgling republic had lost money and status. This work traces Melville's growth from the bawdy storytelling of Typee through the spiritual preoccupations building up to Moby-Dick, and the profound disillusionment of later works. It uncovers autobiographical traces throughout Melville's writing. New ed. Paperback, 432 pages. Size: 197 x 130 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Delbanco, Andrew
ISBN: 0330371088
Publisher: Pan MacMillan
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
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"Wartime Notebooks"And Other Texts
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Coverdale, Linda (trans.) Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelists of post-war France. This work, retrieved from the papers she left at her death, consists of four notebooks written between 1943 and 1949 followed by ten previously unpublished short stories and autobiographical texts. Hardback, 400 pages. Size: 216 x 153 mm. Weight: 622g.
Author: Duras, Marguerite
ISBN: 1847242510
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
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"I Feel Bad About My Neck"And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
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Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director Nora Ephron turns her sharp wit on to her own life. This work includes her insights such as: never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from; if the shoe doesn't fit in the shoe store, it's never going to fit; and if only one third of your clothes are mistakes, you're ahead of the game. Paperback, 224 pages. Weight: 457g.
Author: Ephron, Nora
ISBN: 0552773816
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
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"The Tree"
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A series of recollections that concern both the childhood and work of the writer John Fowles. For him, the tree is the best analogue of prose fiction, symbolising the wild side of our psyche, and he stresses the importance in art of the unpredictable, the unaccountable and the intuitive. New ed. Paperback, 94 pages. Size: 199 x 129 mm. Weight: 98g.
Author: Fowles, John
ISBN: 0099282836
Publisher: Vintage
Date: 2000 (United Kingdom)
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"A Son of the Middle Border"The Classic of American Realism
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An odyssey of a farm boy who - informed by the full brute force of a homesteader's life on the vast unbroken prairie - would become a pre-eminent American writer of the early 20th century. This work recounts author's journey from a rural childhood to the study of literature and the sciences in Boston. Paperback, 364 pages. Size: 220 x 140 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Garland, Hamlin
ISBN: 087351565X
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.
Date: 2006 (United States)
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"Alasdair Gray"A Secretary's Biography
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A biography of Alasdair Gray that looks at the people, events, books, paintings, plays, poems and circumstances that conspired to make him what he is. Hardback, 352 pages. Size: 234 x 153 mm. Weight: 730g.
Author: Glass, Rodge
ISBN: 074759015X
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
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