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Biography & Autobiography: Literary

Blake Bailey


A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates
'The literary biography of the year' Douglas Kennedy, Independent

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413774330 | £12.99 | 19 Jan 2006 | Find out more

Michael Bartholomew


In Search Of H.V. Morton: The authorised biography of H.V. Morton
The first authorised biography of one of the best-selling travel writers of all time

This edition: Paperback

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413774873 | £8.99 | 26 Jan 2005 | Find out more

H. E. Bates


An Autobiography
Publication in one volume of Bates's three acclaimed autobiographies, The Vanished World, The Blossoming World and The World in Ripeness

This edition: Paperback
216x135mm | ISBN: 9780413776006 | £12.99 | 19 Oct 2006 | Find out more

Jean Benedetti


Dear Writer, Dear Actress: The Love Letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper
'An extraordinary relationship and Benedetti does an extraordinary job in presenting it here' Irish Times

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413776372 | £8.99 | 15 Mar 2007 | Find out more

John Betjeman


Letters: Volume One: 1926 to 1951
'The greatest and most genuine English eccentric of the century' Sunday Times

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234x153mm | ISBN: 9780413775955 | £14.99 | 24 Aug 2006 | Find out more

Letters: Volume Two: 1951 to 1984
'All lovers of Betjeman will treasure these letters' Literary Review

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234x153mm | ISBN: 9780413775962 | £14.99 | 24 Aug 2006 | Find out more

Joyce Johnson


Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
'The best book ever written about the Beats' - Washington Post

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413775597 | £7.99 | 09 Feb 2006 | Find out more

Terry Jones


Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary
'Terry Jones's brilliant work of literary and historical detection' Observer

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216x135mm | ISBN: 9780413691408 | £12.99 | 31 Oct 1994 | Find out more

Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery
A ground-breaking historical whodunnit about the mysterious death of England's greatest medieval writer

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234x153mm | ISBN: 9780413759207 | £12.99 | 14 Oct 2004 | Find out more

Benedict Kiely


Drink To the Bird: A Memoir
The brilliant first volume of memoirs by one of Ireland's greatest writers

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413740601 | £6.99 | 09 Aug 1999 | Find out more

The Waves Behind Us: Further Memoirs
Sequel to the hugely acclaimed first volume of autobiography from one of Ireland's most celebrated writers

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413751201 | £7.99 | 06 Jul 2000 | Find out more

Hugh Leonard


A Devil for Grandeur

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413775375 | £7.99 | 01 Jan 2008 | Find out more

Home Before Night
Hugh Leonard's irresistible memoirs, the companion volume of OUT AFTER DARK

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413771681 | £7.99 | 09 May 2002 | Find out more

Out After Dark
An autobiographical evocation of forties and fifties Ireland, a companion volume to Leonard's widely acclaimed HOME BEFORE NIGHT

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413771483 | £7.99 | 09 May 2002 | Find out more

Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno


E.E. Cummings: A Biography
'Cummings' complex story is told openly and readably in this fine biography' - Scotland on Sunday

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413775696 | £12.99 | 01 Jun 2006 | Find out more

Wole Soyinka


Aké: The Years of Childhood
"A beautifully drawn picture ... that will surely number among the classics of childhood" Evening Standard

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413751904 | £8.99 | 08 Feb 2007 | Find out more

Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: A Memoir 1946-65
The third of the Nobel Prize-winner's classic works of autobiography

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413744203 | £8.99 | 03 May 2007 | Find out more

Isara: A Voyage Around Essay
The second of the Nobel Prize-winner's classic works of autobiography

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198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413752000 | £8.99 | 03 May 2007 | Find out more

Jackie Wullschläger


Inventing Wonderland: The Lives of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J.M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame and A.A. Milne
A beautifully written journey through the lives and minds of the most acclaimed children's authors of all time

This edition: Paperback
198x129mm | ISBN: 9780413703309 | £9.99 | 13 May 1996 | Find out more





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