Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith by Richard Bradford
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Category: Literary Biographies
'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace' - Patricia Highsmith (New Year's Eve, 1947). Made famous by the great success of her psychol ...Show more
William Shakespeare: a Brief Life by Tiffany Stern (Series edited by); Paul Menzer; Peter Holland (Series edited by); Zachary Lesser (Series edited by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies | Series: Arden Insights Ser.
This engaging and fresh biography begins by examining how Shakespeare's life turns into myth so comfortably as to seduce even the most sceptical scholar. The early departure, the late return. Public success, private loss. A twilight of plays about family reunions, a death at home in the biggest house in ...Show more
P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters by P. G. Wodehouse
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Category: Literary Biographies
This is the definitive edition of P.G. Wodehouse's letters, edited with a commentary by Oxford academic Sophie Ratcliffe. One of the funniest and most admired writers of the twentieth century, P.G. Wodehouse always shied away from the idea of a biography. A quiet, retiring man, he expressed himself thro ...Show more
Orwell The New Life by D.J. Taylor
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Category: Literary Biographies
A fascinating exploration of George Orwell--and his body of work--by an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, presenting the author anew to twenty-first-century readers. We find ourselves in an era when the moment is ripe for a reevaluation of the life and the works of one of the twentieth ...Show more
Eleven Letters to You by Helen Elliott
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Category: Literary Biographies
Helen Elliott’s Eleven Letters to You is a profoundly original memoir, an intimate account of growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne in the fifties and sixties, before feminism. This sparkling, wonderfully absorbing book is written in the form of eleven letters to those neighbours, relatives, friends, ...Show more
Not Just Jane: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature by Shelley DeWees
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Category: Literary Biographies
"Not Just Jane restores seven of England's most fascinating and subversive literary voices to their rightful places in history. Shelley DeWees tells each woman writer's story with wit, passion, and an astute understanding of the society in which she lived and wrote." -Dr. Amanda Foreman, New York Times ...Show more
42 The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams by Kevin Jon Davies (Editor); Douglas Adams
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Category: Literary Biographies
Over 60 boxes full of notebooks, research, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches, to-do lists, hard drives and even poems...Welcome to the incredible archive of Douglas Adams. After his death in 2001, Douglas Adams's papers were loaned to his old Cambridge college, St John's. Reproduced here, in facsimile ...Show more
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition by Humphrey Carpenter
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Category: Literary Biographies
The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of th ...Show more
Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences by Bev Vincent
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Category: Literary Biographies
Celebrate the King of Horror's 75th birthday with Stephen King, which explores the connections between Stephen King's life and his body of work. Explore the evolution and influences of Stephen King's body of work over his nearly 50-year career, and discover how the themes of his writing reflect the chan ...Show more
Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley
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Category: Literary Biographies
"Jane Austen at Home offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity."--Am ...Show more
Agatha Christie - An Autobiography by Agatha Christie
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Category: Literary Biographies
Agatha Christie's 'most absorbing mystery' -- her own autobiography, with new exclusive CD containing newly discovered priceless recordings from more than 40 years ago of Agatha dictating excerpts about her life as a writer. Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Chris ...Show more
The Jane Austen Remedy: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a book can change a life by Ruth Wilson
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Category: Literary Biographies
An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re-reading each of Jane Austen's novels. 'Ruth Wilson . . . emerges from this discreet, wry memoir as quietly defiant as any heroine from the Jane Austen novels she so admires.' THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD A ...Show more