The Private Life of Lord Byron by Antony Peattie
$80.00 AUD
Category: Literary Biographies
The Private Life of Lord Byron is a richly woven and intensely researched portrait of an unexamined side of the great literary figure. Lord Byron starved himself compulsively for most, though not all, of his life. His behaviour mystified his friends and other witnesses. Yet he never imagined he was ill; ...Show more
Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir by Hilary Mantel
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Category: Literary Biographies
From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall', a wry, shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, ghosts, hauntings, illness and family. At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her shape is like the full moon, her smile is beaming; the o ...Show more
The Real Enid Blyton by Nadia Cohen
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Category: Literary Biographies
She is the most prolific childrens author in history, but Enid Blyton is also the most controversial. A remarkable woman who wrote hundreds of books in a career spanning forty years, even her razor sharp mind could never have predicted her enormous global audience. Now, fifty years after her death, Enid ...Show more
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
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Category: Literary Biographies
Included in the BEST OF GRANTA series: the Costa-award winning memoir on what it means to grow old.
James Patterson: the Stories of My Life by James Patterson
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Category: Literary Biographies
'The master storyteller of our times' Hillary Rodham Clinton'The whole story of his truly astonishing life' Bob Woodward'The book was damn near addictive. I loved it' Ron Howard'At times his poignant narrative will bring you to tears' Patricia Cornwell'A compelling account of the life events that shaped ...Show more
The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance by Ross King
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Category: Literary Biographies
A gripping story of ancient wisdom, new technology and 'the king of the world's booksellers', set in Renaissance Florence'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - th ...Show more
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré
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Category: Literary Biographies
A collection of letters from John le Carré, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood, to the Cold War to his final years John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation. He also had an extraordinary life. A Pr ...Show more
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham
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Category: Literary Biographies
From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the incredible true story behind the creation of a masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment In the summer of 1865, the former exile Dostoevsky found himself trapped in a cheap hotel in Wiesbaden, unable to leave until ...Show more
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins
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Category: Literary Biographies
The official biography of the award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett, written by Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the author's literary estate. 'PEOPLE THINK THAT STORIES ARE SHAPED BY PEOPLE. IN FACT, IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.' At the time of his death in 201 ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 by Helen Garner
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Category: Literary Biographies
Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a powerfully ambitious writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, Helen Garner rails against the confines. A ...Show more
The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life by Clare Carlisle
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Category: Literary Biographies
A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who explored the complexities of marriage. In her mid-thirties Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot--an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those ye ...Show more
Catullus' Bedspread - The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet by Daisy Dunn
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Category: Literary Biographies
A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man's wife and made it known to the world through his verse. This superb book gives a rare portrait of life during one of the most critical moments in world history through the eyes of one of Rome's ...Show more