Biography: Literary

WHAT MAKES A CULT WRITER? Whether pioneering in their craft, fiercely and undeniably unique or critically divisive, cult writers come in all shape...

Ernest Hemingway is most often associated with Spain, Cuba and Florida, but Italy was equally important in his life and work. This book, the first ...

'Breathtaking untold story . . . riotously colourful' Mail on Sunday'I read most of it in one exciting sitting. It is brilliant, gripping and sad' ...

The ultimate insight into the ground-breaking, firebrand playwright who changed our cultural and social landscape and put working-class lives cent...

Louis Bromfield was a World War I ambulance driver, a Paris expat, and a Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist as famous in the 1920s as Hemingway or Fitz...

Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Non-fictionA poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about the shift from being a da...

Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Non-fictionA poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about the shift from being a da...

''Fascinating and forensically scrupulous.'' John Banville, GuardianWhen Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal champion Max Brod could not bring hims...

''Evocative . . . poignant . . . acute and funny'' Observer''The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace'' New York TimesBest known for h...

Ernest Hemingway created a style of writing that captivated a generation. Owing as much to music as it did to literature, it had a tonality that re...

Ernest Hemingway created a style of writing that captivated a generation. Owing as much to music as it did to literature, it had a tonality that re...

Follow in the footsteps of some of the worlds most famous authors on the journeys which inspired their greatest works in this beautiful illustrated...

A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism. Since James Bal...

When telling ones life story to someone else one manufactures not chronicles but legends for oneself, Péter Nádas writes in his fiction masterpiece...

In Shimmering Details, Volume II, Péter Nádas delves deeper into his and his parents lives during the tumultuous years spanning the rise of Hungari...

Northern Voices: Forty Years on the Poetry Beat, tells the story of journalist, Mike Prides relationships with several poets who lived and worked i...

Portrayals of James Baldwin and others in his circle highlight the iconic writers activism The American writer and activist James Baldwin (192487)...

A dynamic reappraisal of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, exploring its radical origins in the seventeenth century and its revolutionary impact on...

A dynamic reappraisal of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, exploring its radical origins in the seventeenth century and its revolutionary impact on...

'Sharp, unsentimental and ruefully funny. A fascinating portrait not only of Lively but of the times through which she has lived' Daily Telegraph'C...