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by Alan Garner
by Richard Wollheim
by Nadezhda Mandelstam
by David Bellos
by Milner Place
by Octavio Paz
by Frederick Exley with a foreword by Nick Hornby
ISBN: 9781846554728
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Harvill Press
Category: Biography & autobiography
£9.99
The Voice That ThundersFormat:Paperback
Publisher: Harvill Press
Category: Biography & autobiography
£9.99
by Alan Garner
'His is a consummate artist's vision that matches landscape and people and story; his is an artist's ear able to hear preliterate song as well as local speech and adolescent slang. With great skill he has wielded these into tales uniquely blending r...
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Lost For Words
by Deric Longden
by Deric Longden
Deric Longden's mum was a wonderfully endearing, eccentric lady whose passions ranged from pot plants and her beloved pussycats to Buttercup Syrup which she consumed in vast quantities. She also provided comfort, advice and her own particular brand o...
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ISBN: 9780552776905
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Black Swan
Category: Biography & autobiography
£9.99
Germs: A Memoir Of ChildhoodFormat:Paperback
Publisher: Black Swan
Category: Biography & autobiography
£9.99
by Richard Wollheim
The son of affluent parents – a distant, dandified impresario father he revered; a beautiful, mindless ‘Gaiety Girl’ mother he came to regret loathing – Richard Wollheim grew up in the English suburbia of the 1920s and 1930s. Germs is his acco...
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ISBN: 9781846554100
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Harvill Press
Category: Biography & autobiography
£15
Hope Against HopeFormat:Paperback
Publisher: Harvill Press
Category: Biography & autobiography
£15
by Nadezhda Mandelstam
The story of the poet Osip Mandelstam, who suffered continuous persecution under Stalin, but whose wife constantly supported both him and his writings until he died in 1938. Since 1917 The Modern Library prides itself as The modern Library of the wor...
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ISBN: 9781846554209
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Harvill Press
Category: Biography & autobiography
£20
Georges Perec: A Life in WordsFormat:Paperback
Publisher: Harvill Press
Category: Biography & autobiography
£20
by David Bellos
“It’s hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User’s Manual to the life of Georges Perec” – Gilbert Adair, Sunday TimesWinner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994George Perec (1936-82) was one of the most signif...
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ISBN: 9780701185626
Format:Trade Paperback
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Category: Literature: history & criticism
£8.99
In A Rare Time Of RainFormat:Trade Paperback
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Category: Literature: history & criticism
£8.99
by Milner Place
Described in the Telegraph as 'Huddersfield's Melville', Milner Place has spent much of his life sailing the seven seas as a skipper of a trading boat, while also writing beautifully crafted poetry. His two pamphlet collections. The CONFUSION OF ANGE...
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ISBN: 9781846554360
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Harvill Press
Category: Literary studies: general
£10.99
The Double Flame: Essays on Love & EroticismFormat:Paperback
Publisher: Harvill Press
Category: Literary studies: general
£10.99
by Octavio Paz
A discourse on the connection between sex, eroticism and love in literature by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist....
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George Sand
by Belinda Jack
by Belinda Jack
The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendix hir...
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From The Neanderthal
by Adam Thorpe
by Adam Thorpe
The poems in Adam Thorpe's latest collection are concerned with the continuum between two worlds: the lived present and the felt past. With the attentive care of an archaeologist he uncovers and examines fragments - from a personal history or the his...
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ISBN: 9780224083096
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Yellow Jersey
Category: Literature: history & criticism
£8.99
A Fan's NotesFormat:Paperback
Publisher: Yellow Jersey
Category: Literature: history & criticism
£8.99
by Frederick Exley with a foreword by Nick Hornby
A Fan's Notes - the horrible and hilarious account of a long failure. Our narrator is the ultimate unreconstructed male. His primary concerns are booze, sex and the New York Giants. But things go very wrong for him - he drinks too much, he's i...
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