Biography: Literary

Published to mark the centenary of his birth in 2019, this is the first comprehensive and authoritative study of the life and work (excluding only ...

WINNER OF THE SAWIRIS CULTURAL AWARD A multigenerational literary memoir that sheds new light on one of the Arab worlds most renowned Romantic poe...

'Ive never read a book like it. Its as if they tore their own hearts out and asked the other to hold it for them while they wrote.' Ph...

CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2024For bpNichols 80th birthday, a selection of 80 pieces from his 1980s notebooks, an a...

'An intimate and insightful portrait of the peerless observer of rural life' RICHARD MABEY'Moving, candid, vivid, it is all that we could hope for ...

In the late twentieth century, Irish poetry achieved an historic quality, a golden era to compare with the verse of the Elizabethan and the Romanti...

The relationship between my grandmother and her mother was very important and indeed crucial to her childhood and the very early days of her writin...

This concise biography of Dylan Thomas incorporates the most recent research, challenging the legend of the dissolute bard to reveal a diligent, pr...

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Inspiriert von der indischen Kulturlandschaft beschließt Albrecht, seine künstlerische Karriere neu auszurichten, was ihm unerwartete Kritik von de...

Albrecht Behmel, Jahrgang 1971, ist Künstler, Schriftsteller und fast ein Renaissance-Mensch (Creative Magazine). Über die Entwicklung seiner preis...

Während Albrecht mit niederschmetternden Folgen versucht, einen Stalker zu vertreiben, braut sich neues Unheil in Berlin-Mitte zusammen: Alle werde...

Die Hochzeitsvorbereitungen für Albrecht und Jenny laufen nicht ganz wie geplant, so dass Wibke Schmidt und Felizitas entnervt beschließen, die Org...

Albrecht Behmel, freischaffender Maler und Schriftsteller, ist Preisträger der Deutschen Akademie der Darstellenden Künste und Autor mehrerer Hörsp...

Born into a family of South Asian heritage with a western upbringing, this collection of delectable memories, floating with the circle of life on i...

This is the first biography of Sir John Squire since 1963 and reassesses the triumphs and tragedies, through a modern lens, of a man whom The Times...

When Robert Keables First World War novel Simon Called Peter was published, critics called it offensive, a libel and reeking of drink and lust. Sco...

Sensual, vivid and sometimes shocking, Albany Park is the story of Patrice Chaplins youthful years: from a grey wartime childhood to exhilarating a...

An unforgettable book, A Life in Trans Activism will leave the reader questioning the safe and comfortable binaries of male/female that so many of ...

The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoes writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. Features extende...

The intriguing history of Dickenss London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years  J...

A Book of the Year in The Times & Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Spectator, Irish Times and TLS. 'Superb' Daily Mail, 'Book of the Week''Brilliant' ...