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Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would ...
This rare text is the first ever biography of Shakespeare, written by one of the liveliest dramatists and poets of the early 18th century. This ...
Think you already know the story of Charles Dickens' life? Think again. Almost everything you're familiar with was first mentioned in an authorised biography ...
'My secrets - the secrets that everyone has - are here, in black and white.'
Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for ...
'Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons.
Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous.
Our contraband is undetectable by scanners.
What we carry as concealed ...
A searing, deeply personal account of enduring a brutal attempt on his life, thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him - from internationally ...
MEET THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITERS - FACE TO FACE
This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated novelists, poets, and playwrights tells the ...
It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre ...
The Real JRR Tolkien: The Man Who Created Middle Earth is a comprehensive biography of the linguist and writer; taking the reader from his formative ...
Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, this title illuminates the author's works ...
'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins with one of the most arresting opening sentences in literature' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface ...
'Engrossing, enlightening and hugely entertaining'
SARAH WATERS, author of Fingersmith
'Brilliant - so vivid and so sharp, fantastically clever and consistently fascinating'
KATHERINE RUNDELL, author of ...
Paul Celan, a Jewish poet born in the Bukovina, now part of Romania, who survived the Nazi genocide and moved to Paris while continuing to ...
'This solitude, the romance and wild loveliness of everything here . . . all make beloved Scotland the proudest, finest country in the world.'Queen Victoria (1819-1901) wrote ...
An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most ...