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The grandson of biologist T. H. Huxley, Aldous Huxley had a privileged background and was educated at Eton and Oxford despite an eye infection that ... More

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Charles Dickens's life is a story of rags to riches, complete with bankruptcy, prison, forced child labour, and fame and fortune overshadowed by ... More

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'The only wise prediction to make about a new Brian Moore novel is that it will be unpredictable and wise,' wrote Christopher Ricks reviewing "Black ... More

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Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) was one of the most popular nineteenth-century French novelists, whose work radiated humour and good cheer. What few ... More

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This biography details the life of Bessie Head - a life which echoes so many of the aspects of the distressing history of South Africa in the last ... More

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Spanning over 30 years, these letters chronicle Fitzgerald's artistic and emotional development through his own words. What emerges is a picture of ... More

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"It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec" - Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times. Winner of the ... More

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Beatrix Potter, born into a wealthy London family, became a passionate country woman and skilled farmer in the northern countryside, where her ... More

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PILGRIM STATE is a stunning memoir which tells the story of Dorothy Walker equal parts beautiful, headstrong, brave and tragic. Her life is lovingly ... More

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In this memoir of the past decade, Kurt Vonnegut examines issues and events, both personal and cultural, ranging freely through time, fusing memory ... More

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Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and adored grandfather. ... More

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James Joyce: A Literary Life is a short biography of Joyce for the student and general reader. It is the first biography to appear for a number of ... More

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The book William Hague refused to read but now wishes he had. Michael Crick's widely praised biography of the extraordinarily invented life of ... More

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This text is a biography of Anais Nin. It shows how Nin, through her lifelong struggle to become a respected writer and position herself at the right ... More

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The life and times of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev were rich and varied. Born into the Russian nobility, he became one of the most celebrated Russian ... More

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Georges Simenon was, during his lifetime, the bestselling writer alive. He created Chief Inspector Maigret, one of the most-loved and sanest ... More

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An account of the love/hate relationship between the two Titans of between-the-wars American literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.

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Could anyone live a life as dramatic, tumultuous and romantic as a Danielle Steel heroine? Yes--Danielle Steel herself. This uncensored, revised, and ... More

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This biography of Robert Louis Stevenson is written in the firm conviction that Stevenson is a major figure in English literature whose reputation ... More

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They are one of the world's legendary couples. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre - those passionate, free-thinking Existentialist philosopher ... More

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