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Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith by Richard Bradford
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Category: Literary
'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace' - Patricia Highsmith (New Year's Eve, 1947). Made famous by the great success of her psychol ...Show more
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires - The Life of Patricia Highsmith by Richard Bradford
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'My New Year's Eve Toast- to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle may they never give me peace' PATRICIA HIGHSMITH (New Year's Eve, 1947) Made famous by the great success of her psychologic ...Show more
Literary Rivals: Literary Antagonism, Writers' Feuds and Private Vexations by Richard Bradford
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Category: Biography
Novelists, poets and playwrights live double lives, sharing the real world with everyone else while spending a good deal of time in a universe of their own making. When they fall out with each other they seem able to kindle feuds as passionate and as public as workers in any trade. Richard Bradford's h ...Show more
Martin Amis: The Biography by Richard Bradford
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Category: Literary
Martin Amis son of one of the popular novelists of the post-War era, has forged a groundbreaking manner of writing that owes nothing to the style of his father, nor indeed to anyone else. This title offers the real Martin Amis, a cabinet of contrasts: tortured, eloquently aloof, kind, obsessive, loved b ...Show more
Orwell: A Man of Our Time by Richard Bradford
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Category: Literary
A vivid portrait of the man behind the writings. As one of the most enduringly popular and controversial novelists of the last century, the 70th anniversary of George Orwell's death in 2020 offers an opportunity to assess his relevance today. Despite the commonplace view that Animal Farm was aimed exclu ...Show more
Orwell - A Man of Our Time by Richard Bradford
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Category: Literary
One of the most enduringly popular and controversial writers of the twentieth century, George Orwell's work is as relevant today as it was in his own lifetime. Possibly, in the age of Brexit, Trump, and populism, even more so. 'Doublethink' features in Nineteen Eighty-Four and it is the forerunner to 'F ...Show more
The Odd Couple: The Curious Friendship Between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin by Richard Bradford
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin altered the landscape of post-war British fi ction and poetry and were among the most popular serious literary writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Respectively, their fiction and poetry - particularly works such as Lucky Jim and The Whitsun Weddings - ...Show more
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