Mrs Gaskell and Me
From the author of the beloved Bleaker House, Mrs Gaskell and Me is the story of two very modern...
EAN: 9781509868186
Book of Emma Reyes
The extraordinary, posthumously published memoir in letters of a Colombian artist whose writing...
EAN: 9781474606615
Rise of Autobiographical Medical Poetry and the Medical Humanities
EAN: 9783838209388
Priestley At Kissing Tree House
Hidden away for over 30 years and only just come to light - this book gives a unique insight to...
EAN: 9781912101948
Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose
The wry and amusing journals of royal biographer and Sunday Telegraph journalist Kenneth Rose,...
EAN: 9781474601542
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
The story of the last years of the author of Treasure Island and Jekyll and Hyde, lived out in...
EAN: 9781848668812
Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices is a charming evocation of the adventures Charles Dickens...
EAN: 9781847497741
Logical Family
In this funny, poignant and unflinchingly honest memoir, one of the world’s best-loved...
EAN: 9781784161040
Writing Under the Influence
Writers and alcohol have long been associated - for some, the association becomes unmanageable....
EAN: 9781476667409
Seagoing
"The great virtue of McCormick's memoirs is their blunt honesty
EAN: 9781138514409
Cypress Walk. Letters from Alun Lewis to Freda Aykroyd
In July 1943, the young Welsh poet and soldier Alun Lewis arrived on sick leave at the house near...
EAN: 9781904634300
Designing the Life of Johnson
What makes a biographical masterpiece? By decoding the manuscript of Boswell's Life of Johnson,...
EAN: 9780199284832
Mark Twain
A Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings us the astonishing life story of Mark Twain -...
EAN: 9781416525998
Enid Blyton: The Biography
Enid Blyton is known throughout the world for her imaginative childrens books and her enduring...
EAN: 9780752440309
Andres Bello
This biography of Andrés Bello, the nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual, statesman...
EAN: 9780521027595
We walk straight so you better get out the way
I remember shaving off my beard in the bathroom on the eve of the camp, with Mahalia Jackson...
EAN: 9781770091443
George Mackay Brown
One of the most highly acclaimed biographies of 2006 -- now published in paperback
EAN: 9780719566059
Girl From Hockley
A new edition of a wonderful Birmingham working-class childhood. As memorable as William...
EAN: 9781844083022
