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The Voice That Thunders
ISBN: 9781846554728
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Harvill Press
Category: Biography & autobiography
£9.99

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The Voice That Thunders
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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Germs: A Memoir Of Childhood
ISBN: 9780552776905
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Black Swan
Category: Biography & autobiography
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Germs: A Memoir Of Childhood
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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Hope Against Hope
ISBN: 9781846554100
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Harvill Press
Category: Biography & autobiography
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Hope Against Hope
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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Georges Perec: A Life in Words
ISBN: 9781846554209
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Harvill Press
Category: Biography & autobiography
£20

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Georges Perec: A Life in Words
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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George Sand
ISBN: 9780099552055
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Biography & autobiography
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George Sand
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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At Home In The World: A Life With J D Salinger
ISBN: 9781862300415
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
Category: Biography & autobiography
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At Home In The World: A Life With J D Salinger
by Joyce Maynard

In 1972, Joyce Maynard, an undergraduate at Yale, wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine called 'An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life'. Among the hundreds of letters she received as a result, one expressed deep affection for her writing,...

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Blockade Diary
ISBN: 9781846553417
Format:Hardback
Publisher: Harvill Press
Category: Biography & autobiography
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Blockade Diary
by Lidiya Ginzburg

The 900-day siege of Lenningrad (1941-440 was one of the turning points of the Second World War. It slowed down the German advance into Russia and became a national symbol of survival and resistance. From her own experience as a survivor of the block...

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Grey Eminence
ISBN: 9780099477822
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Category: Biography & autobiography
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Grey Eminence
by Aldous Huxley

The life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a monstrous paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in composing spiritual guidance for the nuns in his care. ...

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The Life Of Graham Greene Volume 1: 1904-1939
ISBN: 9781844137534
Format:Trade Paperback
Publisher: Pimlico
Category: Biography & autobiography
£15.99

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The Life Of Graham Greene Volume 1: 1904-1939
by Norman Sherry

Unquestionably one of the greatest novelists of his time, Graham Greene had always guarded his privacy, remaining aloof, mysterious and unpredictable. Nonetheless, he took the surprising step of allowing Norman Sherry complete access to letter and d...

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It's Not Like That, Actually: A memoir of surviving cancer - and beyond
ISBN: 9780091894801
Format:Trade Paperback
Publisher: Vermilion
Category: Biography & autobiography
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It's Not Like That, Actually: A memoir of surviving cancer - and beyond
by Kate Carr

It is impossible to go back to the old life after a cancer diagnosis; the reality of surviving is complex. Kate Carr was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 39, underwent extensive harrowing treatment, and in 1998 was told that she'd reached a...

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