Biography: Literary
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Picturing Emerson: An Iconography
Joel MyersonCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Picturing Emerson reproduces and explores the background of all known images of Ralph Waldo Emerson created from life, including drawings, painting...
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From There to Here: A memoir from the award-winning New Zealand columnist, teacher, and international bestselling author
Joe BennettCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50From Willingdon to Lyttelton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirty Joe Bennett is the author of countless columns, over twenty ...
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Odyssey of a Wandering Mind: The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author
Jennifer HorneCurrent price €105.29Original price €116.99A carefully rendered portrait of a brilliant but troubled daughter of the Old South who struggled against the conventions of gender, class, family,...
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Ted Kooser: More Than a Local Wonder
Carla KetnerCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Named a Best New Children's Book of 2023 by NCompass Live Paterson Prize for Books for Young People Winner 2024 Midwest Book Award Winner for Child...
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Pilgrim Soul: W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of His Time
Daniel MulhallCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99When W.B. Yeats became the first Irish person to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, the Swedish Academy was crediting him with givi...
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Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the ''70s & the ''80s
Brad GoochCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99The author of the acclaimed City Poet returns with a searing memoir of life in 1980s New York City-a colorful and atmospheric tale of wild bohemian...
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The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography
Edmund GordonCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD NBCC AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE 2017 SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE Selected as a Book of the Yea...
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Capote''s Women: The book behind TV''s FEUD: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS
Laurence LeamerCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50A FASCINATING TRUE STORY OF FRIENDSHIP, INTRIGUE AND UNFORGIVABLE BETRAYAL, NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES Readers LOVE Capote's Women: 'A genuinely fasci...
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One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
Brian DoyleCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regar...
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The Beats in Mexico
David Stephen CalonneCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99Mexico features prominently in the literature and personal legends of the Beat writers, from its depiction as an extension of the American frontier...
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Inventing Scrooge: The Incredible True Story Behind Charles Dickens'' Legendary A Christmas Carol
Carlo DeVitoCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Inventing Scrooge uncovers the real-life inspirations from Charles Dickens' own world that led to the fascinating creation of his most beloved tale...
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Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Laura Dassow WallsCurrent price €24.69Original price €25.99Walden. Yesterday I came here to live. That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselv...
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The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Franz KafkaCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99Available for the first time in English, the complete, uncensored diaries of one of the twentieth centurys most influential writers 'The writing gl...
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Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet
Philip FreemanCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother and a lover of women, Sappho was one of the greatest writers of her own or any age...
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Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder
Gary SnyderCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Current price €16.99Original price €19.99Save 15% -
The Scent of Flowers at Night: a stunning new work of non-fiction from the bestselling author of Lullaby
Leïla SlimaniCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99International bestseller Leïla Slimani's elegant meditation on life and death, art and beauty, translated by Sam Taylor 'A revelation - I have nev...
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The Little Book of Charles Dickens: Dickensian Wit and Wisdom for Our Times
Orange Hippo!Current price €9.34Original price €10.99'The greatest writer of his time.' (George Orwell)The author of 20 much-loved novels and novellas, Charles Dickens combined humour and pathos to ex...
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She Played and Sang: Jane Austen and Music
Gillian DooleyCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen 'played and sang'. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of...
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Morbidities and The Concept of the New Literature
Clemson University Digital PressCurrent price €105.39Original price €123.99Current price €105.39Original price €123.99Save 15% -
Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club
David FlemingCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99This is a pacey and colourful read elegantly written. Daisy Dunn, The TimesThe whole book reads rather like a Powell novel, with unexpected meeti...
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The Illustrated Letters of the Brontës: The letters, diaries and writings of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë
Juliet GardinerCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99The story both of the real world of the Brontës at Haworth Parsonage, their home on the edge of the lonely Yorkshire moors, and of the imaginary wo...
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