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Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is ... More

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J. G. Ballard has been, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic ... More

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The author of The Charioteer and The King Must Die, Renault studied at Oxford but eventually abandoned the academic world and England for South ... More

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Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. She became a best ... More

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Originally published: New York: Atheneum, 1969.

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When Beatrix Potter died in 1943 few knew the full story of her life. Margaret Lane's remarkable piece of literary detective work, originally ... More

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"Goodbye Soldier" is volume six of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs. 'My namer is Maria Antonoinetta Fontana, but ... More

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The only authorized biography of the beloved, bestselling creator of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"--to be released as a feature film in June ... More

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This final volume includes 148 recently-discovered letters and a comprehensive critical index to the edition.

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Between 1929 and 1935, Evelyn Waugh travelled widely and wrote four books about his experiences. In this collection he writes, with his customary wit ... More

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Catherine Cookson, the successful author of novels such as "The Fifteen Streets", tells the story of her childhood and her relationship with her ... More

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The first volume of this projected two-volume autobiography by Anthony Burgess tells of a disaffected Manchester Catholic from his birth in 1917. It ... More

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First the young schoolboy, gloriously immersed in make-believe in a shabby farmyard or beginning to interpret the urgent rituals of old age and ... More

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Miss Read fondly recalls her school years in Kent in this second volume of memoirs of an English childhood. These school years set the pattern for ... More

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This biography is the culmination and distillation of 20 years' work on Anthony Burgess (1917-1993), the author who remains best known for "A ... More

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Who is the most popular writer in the English language? J.R.R Tolkien keeps getting the nod in survey after survey. His books - particularly "The ... More

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Her first work of fiction, this journey around the writer's father and grandfather is set largely in Mauritius and concerns childhood, madness, fears ... More

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The author traces Lawrence's pilgrimage from a working-class childhood through his years of hard-won recognition to his death in France after the ... More

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'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography'. Waugh begins his story with heredity, ... More

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Told in the same fanciful, irreverent style as the Hitchhiker trilogy, with scraps of scripts, letters and comments from Adams, Don't Panic is the ... More

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