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Paperback. A family story, told with restraint and tenderness. This book is a son's unembarrassed tribute to his mother. His memory of walks with her through the narrow lanes to the country schools where she taught and his happiness as she named for him the wild flowers on the bank remained conscious and unconscious presences for the rest of his life. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- V9780571228119
- ISBN
- 9780571228119
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.54
€ 15.99
€ 11.54
Paperback. "An amazing story [told] with clarity and intelligence .. colorful and insightful."-Martin Rubin, Los Angeles Times Num Pages: 512 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393333596
- ISBN
- 9780393333596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99
€ 20.99
CD-Audio. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; DSK; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 285 x 24. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- CD
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Unabridged edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241977545
- ISBN
- 9780241977545
CD
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.46
€ 27.99
€ 19.46
Paperback. John Haffenden's acclaimed biography of William Empson (1906-1984), the foremost English literary critic of the twentieth century, is now available in paperback. An authoritative and compelling account and the first of two volumes exploring his remarkable life and work. Num Pages: 720 pages, 16 pages of black-and-white plates. BIC Classification: BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1097.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 720
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199539918
- ISBN
- 9780199539918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.12
€ 61.12
Hardback. Features letters between Eliot and his associates, family and friends - his correspondents range from the Archbishop of York and the American philosopher Paul Elmer More to the writers Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Hodgson - that shows the ways in which his Anglo-Catholic convictions could, at times, prove a self-chastising and even alienating force. Series: Letters of T. S. Eliot. Num Pages: 928 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; BJ; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1230.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571316328
- ISBN
- 9780571316328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.41€ 41.39
€ 59.41
€ 41.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590171844
- ISBN
- 9781590171844
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.42
€ 19.99
€ 16.42
Paperback. Acclaimed as 'the best book about Tolkien', this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings. Num Pages: 416 pages, 2 b/w illus, 11 b/w plates (8pp), With index. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007119530
- ISBN
- 9780007119530
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.48
€ 15.99
€ 11.48
Paperback. A series of recollections that concern both the childhood and work of the writer John Fowles. For him, the tree is the best analogue of prose fiction, symbolising the wild side of our psyche, and he stresses the importance in art of the unpredictable, the unaccountable and the intuitive. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 126 x 7. Weight in Grams: 78.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099282839
- ISBN
- 9780099282839
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Hardback. The first biography of this remarkable figure Num Pages: 384 pages, 77. BIC Classification: BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 168 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1020.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445638904
- ISBN
- 9781445638904
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.02
€ 35.02
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813552750
- ISBN
- 9780813552750
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.82
€ 38.82
Paperback. Integrates the life and poetry of George Herbert, giving us in Music at Midnight the definitive biography of the man behind some of the most famous poems in the English Language. This book sets the poetry in the whole context of the poet's life and times, so that the reader can understand the frame of mind and kind of society which produced it. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141043401
- ISBN
- 9780141043401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.08
€ 19.99
€ 15.08
Hardcover. Peter of Blois pursued the life of a twelfth-century intellectual with vigor and passion tinged with anxiety. This book offers a study of Peter of Blois' life, thought, and writings. It explores how Peter brought classical, patristic, monastic, and scholastic traditions into an uneasy synthesis, and deployed them in letters. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 3H; BGL; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813216768
- ISBN
- 9780813216768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.09
€ 98.09
Paperback. Presents John Cheever's journals that reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099529538
- ISBN
- 9780099529538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served in the Royal Navy. Afterwards he returned to being a schoolmaster in Salisbury. This title introduces Golding. Num Pages: 592 pages, ports. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 41. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571231645
- ISBN
- 9780571231645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.60
€ 15.99
€ 11.60
Paperback. A funny memoir of John Carey, best known for his provocative stance on the arts and the academic establishment. It shows his journey from an ordinary background to Oxford's oldest literary professorship. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESF; BGLA; DSB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571310937
- ISBN
- 9780571310937
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.09
€ 17.99
€ 13.09
Paperback. Beginning with memories of a brutal murder, this book takes you through a series of uncanny encounters with 'lost girls', with brilliant digressions on murder ballads, voodoo, acid and insomnia. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099554943
- ISBN
- 9780099554943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. The second book of a major two-volume biographical study of the author William Makepeace Thackeray and his family, including new research that sheds light on the lives of his daughters Minny and Annie. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, geneal. table. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718892258
- ISBN
- 9780718892258
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.35
€ 61.35
Hardcover. Chester Himes and John A Williams met in 1961, as Himes was on the cusp of transcontinental celebrity and Williams, sixteen years his junior, was just beginning his writing career. This is a collection of correspondence between these two friends, presenting nearly three decades worth of letters about their lives and loves. Editor(s): Williams, John A.; Williams, Lori. Series: African American Life. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Edition
- Adapted ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814333556
- ISBN
- 9780814333556
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.47
€ 40.47
Paperback. William Empson is one of the foremost writers and critics of the twentieth century. This correspondence shows him working out his ideas and gives the fullest possible picture of his robust interactions with many other prominent writers, including the likes of F. R. Leavis, Helen Gardner, Frank Kermode, Christopher Norris, and I. A. Richards. Editor(s): Haffenden, John. Num Pages: 800 pages, 16 pages of black-and-white plates. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; BJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 800
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199539864
- ISBN
- 9780199539864
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.79
€ 75.79
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Sandstone Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910124512
- ISBN
- 9781910124512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. The story of Lawrence Durrell and his enigmatic first wife, Nancy: love, betrayal and literary endeavour set among the glittering intellectuals of 1930s London, Paris and Corfu Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844087945
- ISBN
- 9781844087945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.92
€ 15.99
€ 11.92
Paperback. Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favourite "hero-criminal," the talented Tom Ripley. The author maps out this richly bizarre life from her birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, "Strangers On a Train", to her self-exile in Europe. Num Pages: 704 pages, includes two 8 page black & white photo inserts. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Picador
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 704
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312363819
- ISBN
- 9780312363819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 28.11
€ 29.99
€ 28.11
hardcover. Lives are known textually, and this collection of new essays explores, corrects, and advances contemporary knowledge of historical lives and texts, particularly of the British eighteenth century. Complementing the essays is a complete translation and critical edition of a life of Hester Thrale Piozzi written in French by Frances Burney. Editor(s): Swan, Jesse G. Num Pages: 302 pages, 3 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGL; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611485400
- ISBN
- 9781611485400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.25
€ 155.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608197651
- ISBN
- 9781608197651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.07
€ 19.99
€ 17.07