Love from Boy - Roald Dahl's Extraordinary Letters to His Mother by Donald Sturrock
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Category: Literary
Roald Dahl is loved around the world for his iconic children's books and darkly humorous stories. But he was also a prolific letter writer. From the age of nine, under the watchful eye of his headmaster, until his death, Dahl's life was filled with correspondence. For much of his life, Dahl wrote weekly ...Show more
The Lost Detective Becoming Dashiell Hammett by Nathan Ward
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Category: Literary
A 2016 Edgar Award Nominee Before he became a household name in America as perhaps our greatest hard-boiled crime writer, before his attachment to Lillian Hellman and blacklisting during the McCarthy era, and his subsequent downward spiral, Dashiell Hammett led a life of action. Born in 1894 into a poor ...Show more
The Lady with the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire by Laura Claridge
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Category: Literary
Left off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as "the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became a driving force behind the ...Show more
Pepita by Vita Sackville-West
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Category: Literary
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIET NICOLSON. Vita Sackville-West was an extraordinary woman from a long line of extraordinary women - this book tells their stories. Her grandmother Pepita, daughter of an old-clothes pedlar, made her fortune as a dancer and had a scandalous affair with an English diplomat. T ...Show more
Letters to Poseidon by Cees Nooteboom
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Category: Literary
I had been looking for someone to write to for a long time, but how does a man write letters to a god? From his Mediterranean garden on the island of Menorca, Cees Nooteboom writes to the trident-wielding deity, Poseidon, initiating a dialogue not only with the past, as Alberto Manguel observes in his P ...Show more
The Brontes: A Life in Letters by Juliet Barker
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Category: Literary
The Bronte story has been written many times but rarely as compellingly as by the Brontes themselves. In this selection of letters and autobiographical fragments we hear the authentic voices of the three novelist sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, their brother, Branwell, and their father, the Reverend ...Show more
Tru and Nelle (HB) by Greg Neri
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Category: Literary
Long before they became famous writers, Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood") and Harper Lee ("To Kill a Mockingbird") were childhood friends in Monroeville, Alabama. This fictionalized account of their time together opens at the beginning of the Great Depression, when Tru is seven and Nelle is six. They love ...Show more
Beautiful Shadow: A life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson
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Category: Literary | Series: Bloomsbury Lives of Women
Patricia Highsmith - author of "Strangers On A Train" and "The Talented Mr Ripley" - had more than her fair share of secrets. During her life, she felt uncomfortable about discussing the source of her fiction and refused to answer questions about her private life. Yet after her death in February 1995, H ...Show more
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited by Philip Eade
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Category: Literary
Evelyn Waugh was described by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been possessed by the devil. Waugh's literary reputation has continued to rise since Greene's assessment in 1966. Fifty years on from his death, Philip Eade takes a fresh look ...Show more
Their Promised Land My Grandparents in Love and War by Ian Buruma
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Category: Literary
Ian Buruma's maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still at school at Uppingham and Win was taking music lessons in Hampstead. They were married for more than sixty years, ...Show more
Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936 by Volker Weidermann
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Category: Literary
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time. Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen, who find themselves in limbo while Europe gazes into an abyss of f ...Show more