a month in the country
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autobiography
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biography
bookworm lucy mangan
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dear life
edmund de waal
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essays
how green was my valley
how to be a woman
in darkness
joan didion the year of magical thinking
laurie lee
lee smith
letters
literary
memoir
my father
political biographies
robert graves
the bell jar sylvia plath
the hare with amber eyes
the wreckage
where there's a will
wilbur smith books in order
Product details
- ISBN 9780141019543
- Weight: 145g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jul 2008
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Novelist, playwright and barrister John Mortimer has led an extraordinarily rich life, privately and professionally, much of it in the public eye. His own writings, from the play A Voyage Round My Father to the memoirs Clinging to the Wreckage and Murderers and Other Friends, have given his many fans plenty of insights. But now for the first time a biographer has had full access to Mortimer, his circle of friends and colleagues, and their diaries and letters. The result is a riveting account of the life of one of the great figures of our time. A Voyage Round John Mortimer is revealing of many aspects of Mortimer's legal and literary career, from his first attempts at writing novels and the early help he offered his barrister father through to the great triumphs of Rumpole and the Oz trial.
Valerie Grove writes for The Times and the Oldie. She has published two highly acclaimed biographies, of the writers Dodie Smith and Laurie Lee.
