Hope Against Hope
Nadezhda saw it as an opportunity for her husband to mend his shattered life, but it was a trap...
EAN: 9781860466359
Like a Fiery Elephant
The critically acclaimed biography of a man respected for his fierce commitment to truth and...
EAN: 9780330350495
P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
'Wodehouse said letters make "a wonderful oblique form for an autobiography," and Sophie...
EAN: 9780099514794
Moveable Feast
Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared...
EAN: 9780099285045
Iris Murdoch As I Knew Her
Fifteen years ago, Iris Murdoch asked A. This is not Iris Murdoch the Alzheimer's patient, but...
EAN: 9780099723103
Speak, Memory
An autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood...
EAN: 9780141183220
Shakespeare
Offers a biography of Shakespeare, this book reads like the work of a contemporary meeting...
EAN: 9780749386559
Even The Stars Look Lonesome
* From Maya Angelou - one of the most celebrated writers and poets of the world - her marvellous...
EAN: 9781860495618
Tolkien and the Great War
* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture Acclaimed as ‘the best book about Tolkien’, this...
EAN: 9780007119530
Virginia Woolf
As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to...
EAN: 9780712674508
Invisible Writing
The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon....
EAN: 9780099490685
Victor Hugo
Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award 1997.
EAN: 9780330371452
Being Shelley
His revolution would shatter the earth's illusions, shock men and women with new visions, find...
EAN: 9780099507895
In Search Of Shakespeare
Almost 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world's greatest...
EAN: 9780563521419
84 Charing Cross Road
A timeless classic that should be on every book-lover's 'must read' list. First published in...
EAN: 9780751503845
Edmund Spenser
This is a collection of recent critical writing on Edmund Spenser. The essays cover the whole of...
EAN: 9780582247369
Henry James
Told through the lense of Henry James's relationship with two women who particularly shaped his...
EAN: 9781844088928
