Biography: Literary

The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals t...

An iron-willed mother, an ageing grandmother, a pair of mismatched dogs and 90 mu of less-than-ideal farmland: these are Li Juans companions on the...

Annotated by Professors Jansen and Eto, the book illuminates the experiences of Miyazaki's generation with Western culture and the development of a...

The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière relates c...

THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR 2024 EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE H.R.F KEATING AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHICAL/CRI...

In this personal portrait of Edward Said written by a close friend, Dominique Eddé offers a fascinating and fresh presentation of his oeuvre from h...

Over 170 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe remains a figure of enduring fascination and speculation for readers, scholars, and devotees of the...

Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.So begins Andrea Long Chu's genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless...

A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER 'He understands only ...

A moving account of an exceptional life and a piercing critique of imperialism, Home and Exile is above all a book that articulates persuasively wh...

Richard Stonley has all but vanished from history, but to his contemporaries he would have been an enviable figure. A clerk of the Exchequer for mo...

This collection places the fiction of Bram Stoker in relation to this life, career and status as a late Victorian. It centres on various aspects of...