Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found by Allegra Huston
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Category: Literary
When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon afterwards, she was introduced to an intimidating man wreathed in cigar smoke - the legendary film director John Huston - with the words, 'This is your father'. So began an extraordinary odyssey: from the magical Huston ...Show more
John Burningham by John Burningham
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Category: Literary
"John Burningham" opens with a foreword by John's U.S. contemporary, Maurice Sendak, the creator of "Where the Wild Things Are". This is followed by an appreciation of John's work by the critic Brian Alderson, before John himself goes on in his own words to explore his childhood, his schooling at Summer ...Show more
Letters Between a Father and Son by V.S. Naipaul
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Category: Literary
In 1950, V. S. Naipaul travelled from Trinidad to England to take up a place at Oxford University. Over the next few years letters passed back and forth between V. S. Naipaul and his family - particularly his beloved father Seepersad, but also his mother and siblings. The result is a fascinating chronic ...Show more
The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French
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Category: Literary
This is the first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Prize winner and one of the most compelling literary figures of the last fifty years. With great feeling for his formidable body of work, and exclusive access to his private papers and personal recollections, Patrick French has produced a lucid an ...Show more
Somewhere Towards the End
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Category: Literary
What is it like to be old? Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs. In SOMEWHERE TOWARDS THE END she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. This is a lively ...Show more
Cold Cream by Ferdinand Mount
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Category: Literary
Cold Cream is a sparkling autobiography in the great tradition: wonderfully perceptive, exquisitely rendered and bursting with characters and anecdotes of every shade and hue. A tender, moving and witty portrait of Ferdinand Mount's family and his early life, it follows his bumbling path from his decade ...Show more
Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson. Twain, James, and Hemingway by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: Literary | Series: Art of the Story
Through the words of his own 'diary', we watch as Poe succumbs to existential loneliness during a sociological experiment in an isolated lighthouse, stranded for a year with no companion but his faithful dog...Dickinson is brought back to life in an imagined future era, when a husband and wife buy her a ...Show more
A Fork in the Road by Andre Brink
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Category: Literary
Andre Brink grew up in the deep interior of South Africa, as his magistrate father moved from one dusty dorp to the next. With searing honesty he describes his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innocence was always surrounded by violence. From an early age he found in storytelling t ...Show more
The Kit-Cat Club : Friends Who Imagined A Nation by Ophelia Field
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Category: Literary
Ophelia Field's The Kit-Cat Club is a story of a changing time in 17th-century Britain, during the reigns of Queen Anne and George I, when a group of men and their enterprising initiatives paved the way for new literary and political viewpoints, born out of the most unexpected circumstances. The Kit-Ca ...Show more
The Pursuit of Laughter - Essay, Articles, reviews and a Diary by Diana Mosley
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Category: Literary
Diana Mitford is one of the surprise discoveries of the phenomenally successful collection of Mitford letters published for Christmas 2007. Like her five literary sisters, Diana Mitford has written widely not only on her own fascinating, controversial life, but has recorded her intimately-placed observa ...Show more
George, Being George by -
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Category: Literary
Norman Mailer said that George Plimpton was the best-loved man in New York. For more than fifty years, his friends made a circle whose circumference was vast and whose center was a fashionable tenement on New York's East Seventy-second street. Taxi drivers, hearing his address, would ask, "Isn't that Ge ...Show more
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell by Elizabeth Bishop & Robert Lowell (ed Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton)
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Category: Literary
When first introduced to Robert Lowell in 1947, Elizabeth Bishop wrote that 'he was living in a basement room on Third Avenue ...and was rather untidy. He was wearing a rumpled dark blue suit ...I took to him at once.' Lowell was equally taken by Bishop, and thought she had 'more to offer, I think, than ...Show more