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
John Updike's Pennsylvania Interviews
John Updike wrote about his home town of Reading in Berks County, Pennsylvania for much of his...
EAN: 9781611462302
I Will Be Complete
From the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a shocking, big-hearted...
EAN: 9781473620162
Before Night Falls
An insight into the brutal and beautiful life of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, detailing his...
EAN: 9781781258682
Lifesaving for Beginners
When her mother suddenly drowns at age sixty-eight, Anne Edelstein, caring for two small children...
EAN: 9781597096058
World Broke in Two
'This is a brilliant book about the birth of modernism, one that taught me something on every...
EAN: 9781408894552
Manderley Forever
An enthralling biography of Daphne du Maurier, the legendary author of novels including Rebecca...
EAN: 9781760632045
Eleanor Cameron
Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996) was an innovative and genre-defying author of children's fiction and...
EAN: 9781496814487
Spinoza
The standard biography of the great seventeenth-century philosopher, now updated to draw on the...
EAN: 9781108425544
Looking for the Stranger
A biography of the novel that tells us how this poor, sickly young writer from Algeria happened...
EAN: 9780226565361
Every Third Thought
An uplifting and moving investigation into how we think about death, Every Third Thought is both...
EAN: 9781509815296
