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Biography: literary

Paperback. Playwright, novelist, polyglot, pianist, trickster Tomson Highway's Henry Kreisel Lecture on the importance of multilingualism. Illustrator(s): Sokaymoh Frederik, Christine. Series: Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 96.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
56
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772120417
ISBN
9781772120417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.82

Paperback. Editor(s): Pacernick, Gary. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817353735
ISBN
9780817353735
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.70

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Five Leaves Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907869006
ISBN
9781907869006
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGL; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
William Collins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008118211
ISBN
9780008118211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.30

Paperback. In this gripping biography Paul Ibell discusses Williams as a poet as well as a playwright, at the same time revealing the crises of doomed relationships, promiscuous sex, alcohol and prescription drug abuse that gave the writer the raw material for his plays, but which ultimately destroyed him. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 200 x 16. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780236629
ISBN
9781780236629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.61

Hardback. Num Pages: 219 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DNF; DSB; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611474862
ISBN
9781611474862
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.26

Paperback. The wonderful biography of Winifred Holtby and her friendship with Vera Brittain, now reissued as a Virago Modern Classic Series: VMC. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 418.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844088706
ISBN
9781844088706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226416953
ISBN
9780226416953
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99

Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226416816
ISBN
9780226416816
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.84

Paperback. BIC Classification: BGA; BGLA; DNF; WNG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Beacon Press United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807001912
ISBN
9780807001912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, 20 black & white line drawings, 40 black & white photographs (16pp). BIC Classification: BGL; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 34. Weight in Grams: 634.
Publisher
Golden Duck (UK) Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781899262014
ISBN
9781899262014
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.46

Paperback. Biography of Robert Carlton "Bob" Brown, avant-garde publisher, poet and reading machine inventor, bestselling pulp fiction and Hollywood movie treatment writer, cookbook author with Cora and Rose Brown, advertiser copyrighter, editorial board member of the Masses, curator of A Museum of Social Change, and much more. Num Pages: 320 pages, 52 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGL; DSB; DSBH; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823271467
ISBN
9780823271467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.34

Hardback. Biography of Robert Carlton "Bob" Brown, avant-garde publisher, poet and reading machine inventor, bestselling pulp fiction and Hollywood movie treatment writer, cookbook author with Cora and Rose Brown, advertiser copyrighter, editorial board member of the Masses, curator of A Museum of Social Change, and much more. Num Pages: 320 pages, 52 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGL; DSB; DSBH; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823271450
ISBN
9780823271450
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.73

Hardcover. Series: Sarh Mills Hodge Fund Publications. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white halftones, figures, colour plates. BIC Classification: AGB; BGFA; BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820330556
ISBN
9780820330556
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.55

Paperback. "The Astonishment Tapes" is the edited transcript of revealing autobiographical audiotapes recorded by the groundbreaking poet Robin Blaser, a founding member of the Berkeley contingent of the San Francisco Renaissance in New American Poetry. Editor(s): Nichols, Miriam. Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics Series. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817358099
ISBN
9780817358099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.16

paperback. The pen of W. H. Davies, super-tramp and writer, reveals a fascinating picture of a vast, bustling continent intent on its own affairs and of a Britain on the cusp of change between old certainties and an uneasy future. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Parthian Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781908946072
ISBN
9781908946072
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.59

paperback. No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns. To his international admirers Burns was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, and to his political enemies a 'traitor'. This biography presents the remarkable life, loves and struggles of this great poet. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 36. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Pimlico
Condition
New
SKU
9781844139309
ISBN
9781844139309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.68

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University Press Group Ltd United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691141718
ISBN
9780691141718
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.80

Paperback. When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five of them. In this memoir, ending as Margaret Thatcher comes to power in 1979, he describes his childhood, and his painful apprenticeship to the trade of dramatist. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 25. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571294343
ISBN
9780571294343
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.08

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Archipelago Books United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935744603
ISBN
9781935744603
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.31

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