The Girl on the Landing by Paul Torday
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Category: Literary
Michael is dressing for dinner at a friend's country house in Ireland. As he descends the staircase, he spots a small painting of a landing with an old linen press and the white marble statue of an angel. In the background is a woman clad in a dark green dress. During dinner, Michael comments on the pai ...Show more
Outside of a Dog - A Bibliomemoir by Rick Gekoski
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Category: Literary
This is the fascinating and whimsical account of the twenty-five books that have influenced the life of bibliophile Rick Gekoski. Drawing from the fields of literature, psychology and philosophy and including books by Descartes, Dahl, and Dr. Seuss, Rick Gekoski trains the same ironic and analytic eye o ...Show more
Casanova by Ian Kelly
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Category: Literary
Giacomo Casanova was one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of his or any age. Braggart or perfect lover? Conman or genius? He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording the tastes and smells of the years before the French ...Show more
My Two Polish Grandfathers: And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life by Witold Rybczynski
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Category: Literary
AWARD-WINNING AND CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED WRITER WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI DELIVERS A REVELATORY COLLECTION OF LINKED AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS -- PART MEMOIR, PART FAMILY HISTORY -- ABOUT THE UPHEAVALS OF EUROPEAN LIVES DURING WORLD WAR II, HIS OWN INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT, AND THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGES OF ART, MUSIC ...Show more
A Dangerous Liaison : A biography of Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir by Carole Seymour-Jones
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Category: Literary
A Dangerous Liaison tells the intense, passionate and sometimes painful story of how two brilliant free-thinkers - and rivals - came to share a relationship that was to last over fifty years. Moving from the corridors of the Sorbonne and the chestnut groves in the Limousin, to the cafes of Paris' Left B ...Show more
Nothing To Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
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Category: Literary
'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him'. Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. T ...Show more
Poe : A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: Literary
Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' - often horror melodramas such as The Fall of the House of Usher. As editor of the "Literary Messenger" he was influential among critics and writers of the Ameri ...Show more
The Last Leopard by David Gilmour
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Category: Literary
David Gilmour's biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa unearths the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the great novels of the twentieth century. A book whose imagery, once tasted, haunts the reader forever. "The Leopard" describes the golden era of the nineteenth-century Sicily in all its s ...Show more
North Face of Soho - More Unreliable Memoirs Book 4 by Clive James
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Category: Literary | Series: Unreliable Memoirs Ser.
At the very end of May Week Was in June, we left our hero sitting beside the River Cam one beautiful 1968 spring day, jotting down his thoughts in a journal. Newly married and about to leave the cloistered world of Cambridge academia for the racier, glossier life promised by Literary London, he was, so ...Show more
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
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Category: Literary
Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, in a beautiful hardback edition. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1 ...Show more
Quicksands by Sybille Bedford
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Category: Literary
- Her first new book in over 10 years. Bedford is back with what will surely (she says) be her last, and the moving culmination of a story that began in 1956 (when Legacy pubbed in the UK).- Acclaim, acclaim, and acclaim. Sybille Bedford is, simply put, one of the finest writers of her generation. None ...Show more
A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967 by Rachel Cohen
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Category: Literary