The Mystery of Charles Dickens [9781786497918] Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Although he specified an unpreten… rrp: £17.99 £12.62 Add to Cart Delivery usually in 2-6 working days.
Tolkien's Worlds: The places that inspired the writer's imagination [9780711241275] This new book from renowned Tolkien expert John Garth investigates the places that inspired the Lord of the Rings author to create his fictional locat… rrp: £25.00 £18.60 Add to Cart Delivery Usually In 4-8 Working Days
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time [9780141030791] BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times 'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the … rrp: £9.99 £8.99 Add to Cart Delivery usually in 2-6 working days.
Keeping on Keeping on [9781781256497] Alan Bennett's third collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful Writing Home and Untold Stori… rrp: £25.00 £20.81 Add to Cart Delivery Usually In 4-8 Working Days
Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat [9780750995672] Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange… rrp: £16.99 £12.54 Add to Cart Delivery usually in 2-6 working days.
Orwell's Roses [9781783785452] 'Outside my work the thing I care most about is gardening' wrote George Orwell in 1940. Inspired by her encounter with the surviving roses that Orwel… rrp: £16.99 £12.45 Add to Cart Delivery usually in 2-6 working days.
The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography [9781471168956] *BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the one story that encom… rrp: £9.99 £8.55 Add to Cart Delivery Usually In 5-10 Working Days
Patrick Melrose Volume 1: Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope [9781509897681] Patrick Melrose Volume 1 contains the first three novels in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Bened… rrp: £9.99 £8.43 Add to Cart Delivery usually in 2-6 working days.
Patrick Melrose Volume 2: Mother's Milk and At Last [9781509897704] Patrick Melrose Volume 2 contains the final two novels in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedic… rrp: £9.99 £7.47 Add to Cart Delivery usually in 2-6 working days.
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life [9781472964694] Dostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock execution and Siberian exile t… rrp: £20.00 £14.51 Add to Cart Delivery usually in 2-6 working days.
Philip Roth: The Biography [9780224098175] Appointed by Philip Roth and granted complete access and independence, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his … rrp: £30.00 £19.73 Add to Cart Delivery usually in 2-6 working days.
Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse [9781782399384] The remarkable story of Hemingway's love affair with both the city of Venice and the muse he found there - a young Italian girl who inspired him to co… rrp: £17.99 £8.98 Add to Cart Delivery usually in 2-6 working days.
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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym [9780008322205] A brilliant, intimate biography of English writer Barbara Pym. She was Pym to friends. Miss Pym in her diaries. Sandra in seduction mode. Pymska at h… rrp: £25.00 £20.81 Add to Cart Delivery Usually In 5-10 Working Days
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings [9780860685111] 'A truly phenomenal woman' - Barack Obama 'I know that not since the days of my childhood, when people in books were more real than the people one saw… rrp: £8.99 £8.95 Add to Cart Delivery Usually In 4-8 Working Days
The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Boxed Set [9780008214548] Stunning three-volume slipcased set containing the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works ever published, including synopse… rrp: £120.00 £80.76 Add to Cart Delivery usually in 2-6 working days.
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck [9780393292268] This first full-length biography of the Nobel Laureate to appear in a quarter century explores John Steinbeck's long apprenticeship as a writer strugg… rrp: £25.00 £20.84 Add to Cart Delivery usually in 2-6 working days.
Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929) [9781472929143] The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of the poems he had published during and just after the First World War. When his son,… rrp: £25.00 £16.37 Add to Cart Delivery usually in 2-6 working days.
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels [9780008126476] Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before in this new book by Adam Nicolson, brimming with poetry, art and nature writing. Proof that … rrp: £25.00 £22.50 Add to Cart Delivery usually in 2-6 working days.
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath [9781787332539] The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and d… rrp: £30.00 £22.23 Add to Cart Delivery Usually In 5-10 Working Days