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How do you become a writer, and why? Maggie Gee's journey starts a long way from the literary world in a small family in post-war Britain,. At ... More

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Best known for her masterpieces "Middlemarch "and "Silas Marner," George Eliot (1819-1880) was both one of the most brilliant writers of her day, and ... More

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'I had never met anything like her before', H.G. Wells wrote of meeting Rebecca West in 1913, 'and I doubt if there ever was anything like her before ... More

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A memoir of the 50s and 60s from the author of the highly-acclaimed "Strangers."

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More than 50 after her death, Virginia Woolf remains a haunting figure, a woman whose life was both brilliantly successful and profoundly tragic. ... More

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This volume brings together John Bayley's books dedicated to the memory of his wife, Iris Murdoch. Bayley's account of his long and loving marriage ... More

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"An acute literary intelligence ...the reader comes to trust instinctively Angier's assessments." ("New York Times"). Jean Rhys (1890-1979) had a ... More

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A frank and moving self-portrait in letters of the gifted and vulnerable writer who finally, at the age of 76, achieved fame. Her letters reveal the ... More

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Born in India, at the height of British colonial power, she lived there until the 1950s. Her career as a novelist began with Black Narcissus which ... More

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Written by Barbara Pym's longtime friend and literary advisor, this exquisitely crafted biography will delight the large devoted audience of readers ... More

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With the wit and intelligence she has brought to her consideration of vampires, and with the authority she has employed in her studies of Victorian ... More

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The first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature and translated into thirteen languages, Maggie Gee is writing the Victorian condition-of ... More

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Following the remarkable success of "Let Me Make Myself Plain," Catherine Cookson has compiled a further selection of thoughts, recollections, and ... More

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Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, two of the twentieth century's most amusing and gifted writers, matched wits and exchanged insults in more than five ... More

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In the words of its editor, "This book is not intended to provide an assessment of Virginia Woolf's work. A great deal has already been written about ... More

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Reed's new biography draws on new material to map out the enigmatic life and times of one of Britain's most extraordinary novelists.This biography of ... More

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In her lifetime, Rebecca West--novelist, critic, biographer, travel writer, and journalist--was feted for her achievements and feared for her ... More

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