Biography: Literary
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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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James Baldwin: Living in Fire
Bill V. MullenCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99'A scrupulous biography' Publishers Weekly 'Fresh, incisive, and uplifting' Kirkus 'If you want to know the real Baldwin, this is the book to rea...
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The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European
Stefan ZweigCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Stefan Zweig's seminal memoir recalls the golden age of pre-war Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall. Through the ...
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Joan DidionCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. ...
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Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward
Oliver SodenCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99'This is the biography - truthful, sympathetic and thorough - that Coward deserves'DAILY TELEGRAPHThe voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in it...
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What Language Do I Dream In?: My Family''s Secret History
Elena LappinCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Elena Lappin's life could be described as 'five languages in search of an author'. She now lives in London, but she was born in Russia and has live...
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Journey from the North: A Memoir
Storm JamesonCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50After a lifetime of writing a novel every year, Storm Jameson turned to memoir with the ambition 'to write without lying'. The result was an extrao...
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Farley and Claire: A Love Story
Michael HarrisCurrent price €25.49Original price €29.99Farley and Claire is a love story, a biography, a Tale of Two Farleys, or perhaps three: the public one, the private one, and the secret one.Margar...
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Shakespeare''s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book
Emma SmithCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio This is the biography of a book: the first collected edition of ...
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Living to Tell the Tale
Gabriel Garcia MarquezCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude - rec...
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Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited
Philip EadeCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50'Brisk, lively and wonderfully entertaining' John Banville'Excellent ... read this book' Literary Review'The best single-volume life of the author ...
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The Country of Larks: A Chiltern Journey: In the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson and the footprint of HS2
Gail SimmonsCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99Shortlisted in the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020. Travel writer and journalist Gail Simmons follows in the footsteps of Robert Louis S...
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Blue Portugal and Other Essays
Theresa KishkanCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99Using the richness of braided essays, Theresa Kishkan thinks deeply about the natural world, mourns and celebrates the aging body, gently contests ...
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Mnemonic: A Book of Trees
Theresa KishkanCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Shortlisted, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction AwardWarm, imaginative, and thoroughly original, this memoir intertwines the mysteries of trees with the defi...
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Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets
Goose Lane EditionsCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99Under the covers of Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets, David Eso and Jeanette Lynes collect letters and epistolary...
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Wild Atlantic Women: Walking Ireland''s West Coast
Gráinne LyonsCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50At a crossroads in her life, Gráinne Lyons set out to travel Irelands west coast on foot. She set a simple intention: to walk in the footsteps of e...
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Private Lives of the Ancient Mariner: Coleridge and his Children
Elisabeth KendallCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99A fascinating new study of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Private Lives of the Ancient Mariner' illuminates the poet's deeply troubled personality and s...
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The Land of My Fathers: A Son''s Return to the Basque Country
Robert LaxaltCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50In 1960, renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt moved himself and his family to a small Basque village in the French Pyrenees. The son of Basque emig...
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The Last One Out: Yates McDaniel, World War II''s Most Daring Reporter
Jack TorryCurrent price €29.74Original price €34.99The exciting story of a newspaper reporter who risked his life in Nanking, Singapore, and Manila to provide the world with riveting coverage of Wor...
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The Scandal of the Century
Lisa HiltonCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99A sweeping, scintillatingly original, exciting exploration of writer, spy, power player, lover Aphra Behn Kate Williams, historian and author of Ri...
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