Writers: Their Lives and Works by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured novelist, playwright, or poet, biographical entries trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each individual and influenced their work, revealing insights into the larger-than-life characters, plots, and evocative settings that they c ...Show more
Look! We Have Come Through!: Living With D. H. Lawrence by Lara Feigel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Lara Feigel listens to birds outside her window their circling, strident calls and thinks of D. H. Lawrence. It is the spring of 2020 and, as the pandemic takes hold, she locks down in rural Oxfordshire with her partner, her two children, and that most explosive of writers.Proceeding month by month thro ...Show more
Charles Dickens - A Life by Claire Tomalin
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
"Charles Dickens" is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin. Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the cr ...Show more
The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink by Olivia Laing
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Category: Literary
Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them? In "The Trip to Echo Spring", Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the ...Show more
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless. I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no threat' and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork I ...Show more
Ted Hughes: The Biography of a Poet by Elaine Feinstein
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Category: Literary
Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century, yet his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. His marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath marked his whole life and he never entirely recovered from her suicide in 1963, though he chose to remain silent on the subject for more tha ...Show more
Where the Past Begins A Writer's Memoir by Amy Tan
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Category: Literary
From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir about finding meaning in life through acts of creativity and imagination In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals the ways that our memories and personal experiences can inform o ...Show more
The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A 2017 GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Joyous . . . Readers will love this fascinating book' Cathy Rentzenbrink'A godsend with the present season approaching' Irish Independent'The perfect gift for a book-obsessed friend' Stylist, 50 Unmissable Books for Autumn 2017 Absence doesn't make the heart gro ...Show more
Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts From a Life by Michael Katakis
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Category: Literary
Beautifully designed, intimate and illuminating, this is the story of American icon Ernest Hemingway's life through the documents, photographs, and miscellany he kept, compiled by the steward of the Hemingway estate and featuring contributions by his son and grandson.For many people, Ernest Hemingway re ...Show more
After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet by Julie Dobrow
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Despite Emily Dickinson's world renown, the story of the two women most responsible for her initial posthumous publication--Mabel Loomis Todd and her daughter, Millicent Todd Bingham--has remained in the shadows of the archives. A rich and compelling portrait of women who refused to be confined by the s ...Show more
The Fictional Woman by Tara Moss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary
In the accessible style of Caitlin Moran's How To Be A Woman comes bestselling author Tara Moss's first exciting non-fiction book - a fascinating mix of memoir and social comment.Tara Moss has worn many labels in her time, including 'author', 'model', 'gold-digger', 'commentator', 'inspiration', 'dumb b ...Show more
Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family and Forgiveness by Sasha Martin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Witty, warm, and poignant, food blogger Sasha Martin's memoir about cooking her way to happiness and self-acceptance will resonate with fans of Julie and Julia, The Happiness Project, and Tender at the Bone, the bestselling food memoir of Ruth Reichl. 196 recipes. 196 countries. 196 weeks. With this amb ...Show more