Autobiography: Literary
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Summer of the Elder Tree
Marie ChaixCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99A meditation on the themes of separation and silence, The Summer of the Elder Tree was Marie Chaix's first book to appear in fourteen years, and de...
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The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
Ramachandra GuhaCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellec...
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Tell Me Good Things: On Love, Death and Marriage
James RuncieCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99A tender memoir of the challenges of bereavement ... I closed this book wishing Id met her but feeling that I almost had Daily Telegraph ________...
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Love in the Blitz: The Greatest Lost Love Letters of the Second World War
Eileen AlexanderCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense This is the news from the domestic...
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No Boys Play Here: A Story of Shakespeare and My Familys Missing Men
Sally BayleyCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Nobody writes like Sally Bayley Lemn Sissay From the brilliantly original and critically acclaimed Sally Bayley, a literary ...
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Love in the Blitz: A Woman in a World Turned Upside Down
Eileen AlexanderCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense This is the news from the domestic...
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Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard
Jonathan BateCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Enlightening, moving SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploratio...
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Collected Poems: Rhymes from the Factory (with additions); Songs of a Factory Girl; Voices of Womanhood
Ethel Carnie HoldsworthCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Now widely recognized as a novelist and essayist, working-class writer Ethel Carnie Holdsworth first published as a poet. The three books collected...
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Strangers on a Pier: Portrait of a Family
Tash AwCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99So wise and so well done. It made me wish it were much longer than it is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Fr...
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Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writers Awakening
Ngugi Wa Thiong'oCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieS...
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Kurt Wolff: A Portrait in Essays and Letters
Kurt WolffCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99Kurt Wolff (1887-1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself an...
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Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
Janet MalcolmCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the artif...
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Mémoires De Goldoni: Précédes D''une Notice Sur La Comédie Italienne Au Seizième Siècle, Et Sur Goldoni; Volume 2
Carlo GoldoniCurrent price €21.57Original price €25.99Current price €21.57Original price €25.99Save 17% -
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
National Geographic KidsCurrent price €14.61Original price €16.99Current price €14.61Original price €16.99Save 14% -
Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991, Revised Anniversary Edition
James SchuylerCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99This fully updated edition of James Schuylers letters to three dozen intimates, published on the 100th anniversary of the writers birth, offers unp...
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Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991, Revised Anniversary Edition
James SchuylerCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99This fully updated edition of James Schuylers letters to three dozen intimates, published on the 100th anniversary of the writers birth, offers unp...
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The Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume Two
Clive JamesCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99By turns hilarious, insightful and tender, the voice of Clive James defined a generation of writers. His memoirs, amongst the best-loved and acclai...
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Dictionary of National Biography; Volume 13
Leslie StephenCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50Current price €26.98Original price €32.50Save 17% -
Inconceivable: Heartbreak, bad dates and finding solo motherhood
Alexandra CollierCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99'An inspiring and necessary book that challenges the narratives we set for our lives and reveals the beauty beyond them' CLEMENTINE FORDAlexandra C...
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100 Novels That Changed the World
Colin SalterCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50A look at 100 inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture. ...
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Manchester Unspun: How a City Got High on Music
Andy SpinozaCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50At the end of the 1970s, Manchester seemed to be sliding into the dustbin of history. Today the city is an international destination for culture an...
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Dr Maya AngelouCurrent price €16.63Original price €17.50A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend a...
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Mom and Me and Mom
Dr Maya AngelouCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of ...
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Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
Elaine ShowalterCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50The letters between Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth, and Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding, tell the story of an extraordinary fr...
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Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life
Rose TremainCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50*The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller*Rose Tremain (or Rosie as she was then) grew up in post-war London a city still partly in ruins, where both f...
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A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
Nawal El-SaadawiCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99Against the white sand, the contours of my father's body were well defined, emphasized its existence in a world where everything was liquid, where ...
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A Journey Abroad: Wartime Poems Serving with the FAU
Roland J. HarrisCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Current price €14.44Original price €16.99Save 15% -
Father and Son: A memoir about family, the past and mortality
Jonathan RabanCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99'A beautiful, compelling memoir. ... Father and Son is an exquisite, sometimes lunatic tension between powerful emotions and carnage on one side, a...
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Specimen Days
Walt WhitmanCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99'I obey my happy hour's command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don't do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontane...
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Father and Son: A memoir about family, the past and mortality
Jonathan RabanCurrent price €23.66Original price €28.50A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'A beautiful, compelling memoir . . . Father and Son is an exquisite, sometimes lunatic tension between powerful emot...
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A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago
Lennie GoodingsCurrent price €19.91Original price €23.99'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-...
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Where the Hornbeam Grows: A Journey in Search of a Garden
Beth LynchCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99'Beth Lynch's subtle and moving book is about the heart-work of finding and making a place for oneself in the world; the effort of putting down roo...
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Ongoingness/ 300 Arguments
Sarah MangusoCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99'This small-sized book has immense power. Marvel at the clarity and fire.' Zadie Smith'Jam-packed with insights you'll want to both text to your fr...
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Stay True: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir
Hua HsuCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99A deeply moving memoir about growing up in the 90s, written in the wake of the senseless killing of a beloved friend.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize i...
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She''s Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good
Mia MercadoCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50AN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK A NYLON MUST-READ A FORTUNE NEW BOOK TO READ IN AUGUSTAnd, at the center of it all, am I a...
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Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel
Rosita BolandCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99'Utterly engaging.' - Sunday TimesFrom her first life-changing solo trip to Australia as a young graduate, Rosita Boland was enthralled by travel. ...
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Writer''s Luck: A Memoir: 1976-1991
David LodgeCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99A wonderfully candid and insightful account of a writers life William BoydLuck, good or bad, plays an important part in a writers career. In 1976 ...
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Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 8: 19361938
T. S. EliotCurrent price €54.39Original price €63.99Eliot is called upon to become the completely public man. He gives talks, lectures, readings and broadcasts, and even school prize-day addresses. A...
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Meatless Days: Introduction by the winner of the 2018 Women''s Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie
Sara SuleriCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99'Some of the more heart-shaking writing about love and grief I've ever read' Kamila Shamsie, winner fo the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction, from the...
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