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A joyful, rule-breaking experiment in biography, which celebrates 'country life' as a state of mind
Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized ...
An "extraordinarily brilliant" and "pleasurably naughty" (Andre Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an ...
Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright.
Ever since ...
'One of the most original and audacious autobiographies ever written by a writer.' - Le MondeHand to Mouth tells the story of the young Paul Auster ...
With an introduction by Siri Hustvedt
Friday 30 October 1936. I do not wish, for reasons I cannot now develop, to analyse that extraordinary summer ...
With an introduction by Margo Jefferson
Thursday 28 May 1931. On Whit Monday the sun blazed, making the grass semi-transparent. And space & leisure seemed ...
'This solitude, the romance and wild loveliness of everything here . . . all make beloved Scotland the proudest, finest country in the world.'Queen Victoria (1819-1901) wrote ...
A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Daugherty.
In over forty books ...
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022A definitive biography of a twentieth century gay author whose work has recently been rediscovered and enjoys a cult ...