Biography: writers Books
Chicago Review Press Hemingway at Eighteen: The Pivotal Year That
Book SynopsisGeorge Ehrlich Award Recipient In the summer of 1917, Ernest Hemingway was an eighteen-year-old high school graduate unsure of his future. The American entry into the Great War stirred thoughts of joining the army. While many of his friends in Oak Park, Illinois, were heading to college, Hemingway couldn’t make up his mind and eventually chose to begin a career in writing and journalism at the Kansas City Star, one of the great newspapers of its day. In six and a half months at the Star, Hemingway experienced a compressed, streetwise alternative to a college education that opened his eyes to urban violence, the power of literature, the hard work of writing, and a constantly swirling stage of human comedy and drama. The Kansas City experience led Hemingway into the Red Cross ambulance service in Italy, where, two weeks before his nineteenth birthday, he was dangerously wounded at the front. Award-winning writer Steve Paul takes a measure of this pivotal year when Hemingway’s self-invention and transformation began—from a “modest, rather shy and diffident boy” to a confident writer who aimed to find and record the truth throughout his life. Hemingway at Eighteen provides a fresh perspective on Hemingway’s writing, sheds new light on this young man bound for greatness, and introduces anew a legendary American writer at the very beginning of his journey.Trade Review"A remarkably fine, absolutely illuminating book." Scott Donaldson, author of Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship"Do we need another Hemingway biography? Absolutely, if it's as intelligent, insightful, and big hearted as Hemingway at Eighteen . This is a Hemingway few of us knowdazzlingly talented but still young, pulsing with ambition, and searching for his place in the literary world. Steve Paul has given us the origins of a legend." Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey"In Hemingway at Eighteen , Steve Paul has given us an engaging and insightful work that shines a light on that crucial year in Hemingway's life, when he first tasted the world raw and the foundation of the famous prose style was laid at the Kansas City Star ." Daniel Woodrell, author of The Maid's Version and Winter's Bone"A delightful book, about a boy becoming a man, and a newspaper hack becoming one of our finest writers. Steve Paul's biography will surprise even those who thought there was nothing new to know about Ernest Hemingway." Rick Atkinson, author of An Army at Dawn"[A] clear, concise, sympathetic account of a gifted young man discovering who he is-and what he can do." Kirkus Reviews"Steve Paul, a master hand at the venerable newspaper where the young cub Ernest Hemingway got his start, here gives us a lively and fascinating account of a formative year in the life of a great writer." Richard Rhodes, author of the Pulitzer Prize--winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb"Paul, a veteran of the Kansas City Star's editorial staff, provides generous insight into the paper and the city, and his expert interest in Hemingway parallels his fond appreciation for the newsroom's "clack of typing mills and the smoke of countless cigars." Booklist"Beginnings are important in literature and life. Steve Paul, one of the Kansas City Star 's own, has given us a thoughtful and lively account of a seminal year for Ernest Hemingway." Seán Hemingway, editor of The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Hemingway Library Edition
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Soho Press Inc Greenville
Book SynopsisIn this novel based on real events, Dale Peck takes on the childhood of his father, Dale Peck Sr. Raised in poverty with seven brothers and sisters in suburban Long Island, terrorized by an abusive mother, Dale Sr.’s life changes when his alcoholic father dumps him at his uncle’s dairy farm in upstate New York. There he begins to thrive, finding real love and connection with his Uncle Wallace and Aunt Bess. But he is ultimately unable to outrun the chaos and violence of his old life. A virtuoso work of great empathy and originality, Greenville is Peck’s most heartfelt and haunted novel to date.
£14.40
Tachyon Publications The Search For Philip K. Dick
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Counterpoint An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography
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Black Lawrence Press Animal Disorders
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Arcadia Publishing Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Portland
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Bloomsbury Publishing Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter
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MIT Press Airless Spaces new edition
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Akashic Books Sufferah: The Memoir of a Brixton Reggae-Head
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Chicago Review Press Anya Seton: A Writing Life
Book SynopsisAnya Seton was the bestselling author of ten historical novels, including the masterpieces Katherine and The Winthrop Woman, which are still widely beloved over sixty years after their original publication. Yet there has never before been a book-length biography of this great American writer. Author Lucinda MacKethan, with the support of Seton’s daughters and unprecedented access to the novelist’s decades’ worth of journals detailing her writing throughout her career, has crafted an intimate look at the writer in her own words. Ann Seton was born in 1904 the daughter of two celebrity writers: Ernest Thompson Seton, a renowned naturalist and illustrator, and Grace Gallatin Seton, a women’s suffrage leader who received medals for her volunteer work in France during World War I. The pair’s literary output gave them enduring fame, but as a teenager Ann explicitly rejected her parents’ careers—because, she said, they showed her the drudgery of a writer’s life. Still, she was always confident that she had inherited her parents’ talent. At age thirty-six and self-renamed Anya, she placed her first novel with a major publisher. Anya the author was protective of her private life yet also mused, “I suppose I write myself over and over again in the heroines” of her books. She reinvented herself within carefully researched historical settings and biographical frameworks that provided both escape and wish fulfillment. Through Seton’s own journal entries, letters, and self-analyses, MacKethan provides an intimate study of what it meant to her to be a writer. She details Seton’s creative process, as well as the difficulties she faced balancing writing with the duties of homemaking and raising three children, and the gratitude or more often frustration she felt toward editors and reviewers. A compelling portrait emerges of a deeply dedicated writer whose life was full of inner turmoil, most of it self-inflicted. Trade Review"Anya Seton is truly one of the most beloved godmothers of women writers of my generation (including me), and this long-overdue biography gives texture and insight into her life, her process, and her books. I grieved for the very real challenges she faced as a woman of letters, and cheered for her triumphs. Kudos to Lucinda H. MacKethan for bringing us this rich, thoughtful material." -- Barbara O'Neal, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids"Lucinda MacKethan brings Anya Seton's creative process to vivid and memorable life, illuminating the thoughts and emotions of an important but perhaps underappreciated writer of historical fiction. Both fans and new initiates to Seton's work will enjoy this sensitive, thoughtful portrayal. This Writing Life will stick in the reader's mind long after the book is closed." -- Carrie Callaghan, author of Salt the Snow and A Light of Her Own"Lucinda H. MacKethan takes a lovely, bold, deep dive into Anya Seton's writing life, chronicling her passionate longings, tragedies, and triumphs -- and, most crucially, the dailiness of writing. Anya Seton is a fascinating quest featuring a real-life heroine who found freedom through fiction -- and her identity as a storyteller -- as she struggled to define herself apart from the authorial acclaim of her parents and the rigid labels of society." -- Christina Lane, author of Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock"The author's fans will appreciate this workmanlike volume." -- Publishers Weekly
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Chicago Review Press Cockeyed Happy: Ernest Hemingway's Wyoming
Book Synopsis“Streamlined and impacting, Darla Worden’s Cockeyed Happy could be construed as a narrative of the author himself, a compelling account of Hemingway’s summers in Wyoming—and I can think of no finer compliment.”—Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire MysteriesIn March 1928, after the phenomenal success of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway returned to the United States with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer—the stylish Vogue editor and scorned "other woman" who would give up everything to be with him and, in the end, lose it all. The couple fled Paris in the wake of the huge gossip storm about the American author's affair and abandonment of his wife and son. Escaping to Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains to write while Pauline recovered from the birth of their first child, he finished A Farewell to Arms and fell in love with the land around him. Pauline soon joined him in Yellowstone and Jackson Hole.In Cockeyed Happy Darla Worden tells the little-known story of Hemingway and Pauline during six summers from 1928 to 1939—from smitten newlywed to bored, restless husband and ultimately to philanderer as he falls in love with another woman once again.Trade Review"Darla Worden's Cockeyed Happy , about Ernest Hemingway and his second wife Pauline, portrays not only a marriage but also a landscape rarely examined in his life and work. Worden briskly and engagingly conveys how the hunting grounds and fishing streams of rugged Wyoming shaped Hemingway's writing life, burnished friendships, and backdropped this not-forever-happy relationship." Steve Paul, author of Hemingway at Eighteen" Cockeyed Happy is an exuberant and forthright account of a far-too-underappreciated period of Hemingway's life. Darla Worden's affection for her subjects and their surroundings is irresistible." Craig Boreth, author of The Hemingway Cookbook"What you didn't learn in the recent PBS three-part documentary about Ernest Hemingway and his years with his second wife, Pauline, you will learn in Darla Worden's Cockeyed Happy and more! This is a story of romance, adventure, anger, and regret, told with intimate and compelling detail. It's a provocative read." Lee Gutkind, author of My Last Eight Thousand Days"Darla Worden has written a captivating book that reads like a novel yet is thoroughly researched with factual attention to detail. . . . Her descriptions of time and place resemble a travelogue that makes you want to experience the area for yourself, despite the changes since Hemingway's time. . . . Worden's book is a refreshing addition to Hemingway scholarship." Ruth Hawkins, Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow"Streamlined and impacting, Darla Worden's Cockeyed Happy could be construed as a narrative of the author himself, a compelling account of Hemingway's summers in Wyomingand I can think of no finer compliment." Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries"[An] immersive debut. . . For readers interested in a lesser-known aspect of Hemingway's life, this is worth a look." Publishers Weekly"Enticing. . . 'Cockeyed Happy' is not only a look into a famous marriage, but it's also a lot of fun to read." 6park.newsTable of ContentsMap of Wyoming Part I: 1928 Part II: 1930 Part III: 1932 Part IV: 1936 Part V: 1938–1939 Epilogue: 1940 Success Author’s Method Acknowledgments Credits About the Author Index
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Seven Stories Press,U.S. I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Gabo y Mercedes: una despedida / A Farewell to
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Chelsea Green Publishing Co Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love
Book SynopsisFrom New York Times bestselling author Naomi Wolf, Outrages explores the history of state-sponsored censorship and violations of personal freedoms through the inspiring, forgotten history of one writer’s refusal to stay silenced. Newly updated, first North American edition--a paperback original In 1857, Britain codified a new civil divorce law and passed a severe new obscenity law. An 1861 Act of Parliament streamlined the harsh criminalization of sodomy. These and other laws enshrined modern notions of state censorship and validated state intrusion into people’s private lives. In 1861, John Addington Symonds, a twenty-one-year-old student at Oxford who already knew he loved and was attracted to men, hastily wrote out a seeming renunciation of the long love poem he’d written to another young man. Outrages chronicles the struggle and eventual triumph of Symonds—who would become a poet, biographer, and critic—at a time in British history when even private letters that could be interpreted as homoerotic could be used as evidence in trials leading to harsh sentences under British law. Drawing on the work of a range of scholars of censorship and of LGBTQ+ legal history, Wolf depicts how state censorship, and state prosecution of same-sex sexuality, played out—decades before the infamous trial of Oscar Wilde—shadowing the lives of people who risked in new ways scrutiny by the criminal justice system. She shows how legal persecutions of writers, and of men who loved men affected Symonds and his contemporaries, including Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, and the painter Simeon Solomon. All the while, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was illicitly crossing the Atlantic and finding its way into the hands of readers who reveled in the American poet’s celebration of freedom, democracy, and unfettered love. Inspired by Whitman, and despite terrible dangers he faced in doing so, Symonds kept trying, stubbornly, to find a way to express his message—that love and sex between men were not “morbid” and deviant, but natural and even ennobling. He persisted in various genres his entire life. He wrote a strikingly honest secret memoir—which he embargoed for a generation after his death—enclosing keys to a code that the author had used to embed hidden messages in his published work. He wrote the essay A Problem in Modern Ethics that was secretly shared in his lifetime and would become foundational to our modern understanding of human sexual orientation and of LGBTQ+ legal rights. This essay is now rightfully understood as one of the first gay rights manifestos in the English language. Naomi Wolf’s Outrages is a critically important book, not just for its role in helping to bring to new audiences the story of an oft-forgotten pioneer of LGBTQ+ rights who could not legally fully tell his own story in his lifetime. It is also critically important for what the book has to say about the vital and often courageous roles of publishers, booksellers, and freedom of speech in an era of growing calls for censorship and ever-escalating state violations of privacy. With Outrages, Wolf brings us the inspiring story of one man’s refusal to be silenced, and his belief in a future in which everyone would have the freedom to love and to speak without fear.Trade Review“A heartbreaking, eye-opening book . . . Outrages is revelatory in the way it brings together sometimes unbearably painful personal narratives with political and literary history…[a] remarkable book.”—Harper’s Bazaar“A remarkable and moving work.”—Larry Kramer, author of Faggots and The Normal Heart“With precision and sensitivity, Naomi Wolf traces how the state came to police the private sphere; she brings into the light the lives of those whose resistance to this brutality was a beacon for the future. Outrages is a remarkable, revelatory book.”—Erica Wagner, author of Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge“Outrages is a fascinating history book with a cast of characters and an epic sweep that make it read like a novel Charles Dickens could have written, if he had ever written one about queers.”—New York Journal of Books“In Outrages, Naomi Wolf reveals a largely forgotten history of how science, law, and culture have intersected to suppress and silence sexual expression. As expanding acceptance threatens to erase a history of LGBTQ marginalization and struggle—and as we descend into authoritarian rule across so many countries—this is an important, powerful tale.”—Shahid Buttar, marriage equality activist and attorney“[A] long-overdue literary investigation into censorship and the life of a tormented trailblazer, a prescient father of the modern gay rights movement.”—Oprah Magazine“[This] remarkable book is a tour de force of research and insight into Symonds’ life and work and the related evolution of public and state attitudes toward homosexuality. [Wolf’s] is an essential contribution not only to queer history but also to studies of nineteenth-century culture. It is not to be missed.”—Booklist, starred review“Wolf provides engrossing accounts of Whitman and Symonds, yet her story is even more compelling in its wider portrait of the societies and institutions in America as well as England that served to shape the fears and prejudices that have lingered into our modern age. An absorbing and thoughtfully researched must-read for anyone interested in the history of censorship and issues relating to gay male sexuality.”—Kirkus Reviews“This ambitious literary, biographical, and historical treatise from Wolf (The Beauty Myth) examines both 19th-century Britain’s persecution of gay men and the work and life of the relatively obscure gay writer John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) . . . a fascinating look at this period and these writers.”—Publishers Weekly
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Catapult Now Beacon, Now Sea: A Son's Memoir
Book SynopsisA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARA wrenching debut memoir of familial grief by a National Book Award finalist—and a defining account of what it means to love and lose a difficult parent, for readers of Joan Didion and Dani Shapiro.When Christopher Sorrentino''s mother died in 2017, it marked the end of a journey that had begun eighty years earlier in the South Bronx. Victoria''s life took her to the heart of New York''s vibrant mid-century downtown artistic scene, to the sedate campus of Stanford, and finally back to Brooklyn—a journey witnessed by a son who watched, helpless, as she grew more and more isolated, distancing herself from everyone and everything she''d ever loved.In examining the mystery of his mother''s life, from her dysfunctional marriage to his heedless father, the writer Gilbert Sorrentino, to her ultimate withdrawal from the world, Christopher excavates his own memories and family folklore in an effort to discover her dreams, understand her disappointments, and peel back the ways in which she seemed forever trapped between two identities: the Puerto Rican girl identified on her birth certificate as Black, and the white woman she had seemingly decided to become. Meanwhile Christopher experiences his own transformation, emerging from under his father''s shadow and his mother''s thumb to establish his identity as a writer and individual—one who would soon make his own missteps and mistakes.Unfolding against the captivating backdrop of a vanished New York, a city of cheap bohemian enclaves and a thriving avant-garde—a dangerous, decaying, but liberated and potentially liberating place—Now Beacon, Now Sea is a matchless portrait of the beautiful, painful messiness of life, and the transformative power of even conflicted grief."Acute, intimate and exceedingly fair, Sorrentino’s memoir is a post-mortem that examines not the causes of his parents’ deaths but the endurance and effects of their confounding marriage . . . This is the story of a son who is trying to dissect and understand the love that remains—and sometimes emerges—after death. We may have a greater cultural appetite for eulogies, but an autopsy, in looking directly at the cold corpse of a family in all its gruesomeness and mystery, can be just as profound, and in the hands of a writer as restrained and humane as Sorrentino, just as beautiful." —Eleanor Henderson, The New York Times Book Review
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The New York Review of Books, Inc John Aubrey, My Own Life
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters
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£17.85
The New York Review of Books, Inc Portraits without Frames
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£15.26
The New York Review of Books, Inc Instead of a Letter
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Soho Press Difficult Lives Hitching Rides
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Nimbus Publishing Ltd Anne's Cradle: The Life and Works of Hanako
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£18.06
Merrion Press Looking Through You: Northern Chronicles
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Verso Books The Two Lolitas
Book SynopsisDoes it ring a bell? The first-person narrator, a cultivated man of middle age, looks back on the story of an amour fou. It all starts when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger. The moment he sees the daughter of the house, he is lost. She is a pre-teen, whose charms instantly enslave him. Heedless of her age, he becomes intimate with her. In the end she dies, and the narratormarked by her foreverremains alone. The name of the girl supplies the title of the story: Lolita.We know the girl and her story, and we know the title. But the author was Heinz von Eschwege, whose tale of Lolita appeared in 1916 under the pseudonym Heinz von Lichberg, forty years before Nabokov's celebrated novel took the world by storm. Von Lichberg later became a prominent journalist in the Nazi era, and his youthful work faded from view. The Two Lolitas uncovers a remarkable series of parallels between the two works and their authors. Did Vladimir Nabokov, author of an imperishable Lolita who remained in Berlin until 1937, know of von Lichberg's tale? And if so, did he adopt it consciously, or was this a classic case of "cryptoamnesia," with the earlier tale existing for Nabokov as a hidden, unacknowledged memory?In this extraordinary literary detective story, Michael Maar casts new light on the making of one of the most influential works of the twentieth century.Translated by Perry AndersonTrade ReviewThe essay works not only as a shining example of exhaustive research, but as a noteworthy case study of artistic copyright and intellectual property ... Surprisingly enjoyable * Time Out *Elegant * Guardian *Genuinely original piece of work, startling in its revelations and fascinating, perhaps even a little troubling, in its implications ... Striking * Irish Times *Micheal Maar is an acute analyst and an elegant stylist who can make even a wild-goose chase highly readable * Times Literary Supplement *Maar is a literary sleuth, his method a Holmesian combination of instinct, some intellectual delegation and close reading. He makes John Sutherland seem like bumbling Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard. * Glasgow Herald *
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O'Brien Press Ltd Best-Loved Bernard Shaw
Book SynopsisAn attractive & approachable selection of the work of Bernard Shaw, one of the most remarkable people of the 20th century. Hissteely self-determination turned the conviction that he would become a great writer into reality. With extracts from his plays, essays and personal letters.
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O'Brien Press Ltd Arise And Go
Book SynopsisThe idea of place runs like a river through the life and works of the poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. This book focuses on his time in Dublin, London, Sligo and elsewhere in the west of Ireland, embracing the homes, landscapes and people that impacted his life and stimulated his vast body of work.
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Hesperus Press Ltd Brief Lives: Charlotte Bronte
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New Island Books A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan Higgins
Book SynopsisThis is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a literary stylist, often cited as the heir to Ireland’s great Modernist tradition. They wrote steadily during their twenty-nine years together, but their careers could not have been more different: while Aidan focused on fiction and memoirs, Alannah prioritised work that paid the bills. This gave Aidan the most stable and productive years of his life. But as his eyesight failed and his memory began to fade, Alannah became his carer and had to fight to keep her own writing career alive. Drawing from diaries and notebooks, and correspondence with writers such as Samuel Beckett, Alice Munro and Harold Pinter, this is a unique record of a major Irish writer. From the joyful honeymoon years – filled with launches, festivals and visits to their Kinsale home by Richard Ford, Edna O’Brien and other literary legends – to the increasingly difficult years of Aidan’s decline, Hopkin tells their story candidly and without commentary. She shows us how, in spite of all, they remained the best of friends, in love until Aidan’s very last breath. A Very Strange Man is an exceptional piece of writing, objective and authoritative, personal, honest and moving. Trade ReviewI can't remember when I've read such a moving memoir, or one written with such raw honesty ... It’s also compelling; I couldn’t put it down. It stands out for the clear-eyed view of a wife who doesn’t shy away from sometimes portraying herself in an unfavourable light. -- Sue Leonard * Books Ireland *a subtle and memorable book ... clear-eyed and candid, but generous too and wise -- Colm Tóibín * The Irish Times *Powerful and moving. Above all, this is a book about the emotional challenges of caring for someone with dementia – proving that grief really is the price we pay for love. * Sunday Business Post *Your book of the year? So far, A Very Strange Man, by Alannah Hopkin. This is a strangely consoling memoir, and a very rare thing, being an accurate, candid, and moving book about what it is like to be a writer and to live with a writer. I began it the other morning outside in the sun and finished it some hours later, with a mild sunburn and a sense of great gratitude. -- Sebastian Barry * Irish Independent *‘among the richest accounts I’ve ever read of lives devoted to writing.’ -- Rob Doyle * Irish Times *Hopkin’s straightforward approach suits the biographical record, but her writing comes into its own whenever she exercises her gift for topographical evocation: “Every tiny stone-walled field had a wealth of meadow grasses and wild flowers” -- Patricia Craig * The Times Literary Supplement *
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Sandstone Press Ltd Josephine Tey: A Life, 125th Anniversary Edition
Book SynopsisJosephine Tey was the pen-name of Elizabeth MacKintosh (1896-1952). Born in Inverness, MacKintosh lived several lives: Best known as Golden Age Crime Fiction writer Tey, she was also successful novelist and playwright Gordon Daviot. During her exceptional career, she had plays on simultaneously in the West End in London and on Broadway, and even wrote for Hollywood, all from her home in the north of Scotland. Celebrating the 125th anniversary of MacKintosh’s birth, this updated edition of the definitive biography includes a new preface. Trade Review‘The biographer reveals the moving story of Elizabeth MacKintosh’s life with tact and superior investigative tenacity.’ * The Wall Street Journal *‘Jennifer Morag Henderson presents us with an intelligent, industrious and interesting woman who knew her own mind. She has written a sympathetic, well-researched biography...’ * The Times Literary Supplement *‘The playwright and author Jennifer Morag Henderson has taken on the Alan Grant mythbuster role and written a full-length biography, the first of Tey to appear.’ * The Telegraph, Best Books of 2016 *‘It strips away a lot of the myth surrounding Mackintosh; and it also tells the moving story of a major leading Scots writer for whom the detective novel became “a medium as disciplined as any sonnet”.’ * The Observer, Best Biographies of 2015 *The life of one of the great golden age crime writers is granted a forensic examination in Josephine Tey.’ * The Independent, Best Crime Books of 2015 *‘Her biography is scrupulously researched, narrated with sympathy and full of information previously not readily available. It reads like a labour of love.’ * Literary Review *‘In Henderson's loving, meticulously-researched book we have a first and vital account of that life...hugely valuable to anyone who cares about the story of writing in Scotland, what it has been, how it has changed, and where it may go next.’ * The Scotsman *‘This is the first biography of Josephine Tey and Henderson goes through the few facts of Mackintosh’s life with a forensic thoroughness and finds no secrets lurking. Henderson here pays important tribute to a mind boiling with creativity that came to fruition in the ordered habits of a quiet life.’ * The Oldie *‘Henderson is an Invernessian herself and she seems to take MacKintosh’s neglect personally. In the age of Google-aided, instant biography it’s a pleasure to read one that is the product of time, care and passion.’ * The National *‘A book which, by foregrounding the life and work of a writer who should never have been neglected, deserves the widest of readership.’ * Scottish Review *‘...becomes at a stroke the definitive volume.’ * Crime Time *‘Sterling, superb, and all manner of superlatives -- this book is a must-read for anyone even remotely interested in Josephine Tey. Henderson has done an invaluable service to Tey fans everywhere through her meticulous research...there's so much here about this woman's life that frankly, if you're a Tey reader, you will not want to miss a single word.’ * Crime Segments *‘Absorbing first biography of the crime and mystery writer.’ * The Bookseller *‘This is an interesting read and it was good to add some meat to the bones of this elusive writer.’ * Crime Squad *‘[Tey] was in danger of being forgotten before the publication of a new and comprehensive account of her life and work.’ * Celtic Connection *‘Jennifer Morag Henderson's is the first full biography of this enigmatic and original writer. Painstakingly researched, Henderson is keen to place Tey firmly in the canon of modern Scottish literature, a status never given to her in life.’‘A much needed biography of one of the great mystery writers of the twentieth century. ‘Josephine Tey’ is also a well-kept secret in Scottish Literature: a forensic stylist and the most elegant of minds.’ * University of Glasgow *‘This biography by Jennifer Morag Henderson is to be warmly welcomed and will be read eagerly by anyone curious about Josephine Tey, modern theatre, crime genre fiction, women’s writing, or Scottish literature, in all its multi-faceted complexity.’ * Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow *
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For Beginners Jane Austen for Beginners
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Tin House Books Low Down: Junk, Jazz, and Other Fairy Tales from
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Tin House Books The Other Side
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£14.41
Archipelago Books The Bottom Of The Jar
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£13.49
For Beginners Proust for Beginners
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£11.99
For Beginners Joyce for Beginners
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Tin House Books The Journal of Jules Renard
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Schaffner Press Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola
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£17.99
Tin House Books My Autobiography of Carson McCullers A Memoir
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Random House USA Inc Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics
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£21.60
Penguin Putnam Inc Soldiers Don't Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood,
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Random House USA Inc Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
Book SynopsisThe author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into the heart of twentieth-century London's literary life.Insightful, lively, and enthralling, this biography is as much a brilliant tapestry of a seminal era in London’s literary life as it is a revelation of an iconic literary figure. Best known for his twelve-volume comic masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, the prolific writer and critic Anthony Powell (1905–2000) kept company between the two world wars with rowdy, hard-up writers and painters—and painters’ models—in the London where Augustus John and Wyndham Lewis loomed large. He counted Evelyn Waugh and Henry Green among his lifelong friends, and his circle included the Sitwells, Graham Greene, George Orwell, Philip Larkin, and Kingsley Amis. Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, Hilary Spurling—herself a longtime friend of Powell’s as well as an award-winning biographer—has produced a fresh and powerful portrait of the man and his times.
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Les Belles Lettres L'Homme a la Cle d'Or: Autobiographie
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Les Belles Lettres Ma Vie Avec Virginia
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Les Belles Lettres Dante
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Les Belles Lettres Oeuvres Completes
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Klincksieck Autoportrait
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Classiques Garnier Jacqueline Pascal (1625-1661): Biographie
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Classiques Garnier Signes Malraux: Andre Malraux Et La Question
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Harrassowitz Essays in Arabic Literary Biography: II:
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