Creator: Eric Domville
Publication date: 1986-01-30
Dewey code: 821.8
RRP: £116.00
Price: £87.99
Review The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats: 1865-1895 v.1: 1865-1895 Vol 1 (Yeats Collected Letters Series) / Clarendon Press:
Publication date: 2005-05-11
Dewey code: 821.914
RRP: £47.50
Price: £45.12
Review The Busiest Man in England: Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900 / Palgrave Macmillan:
Publication date: 2006-02-27
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.89
Review East End Girl / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 1999-07-05
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.56
Review The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:Agatha Christie's career spanned over 50 years and 80 books; given that she also wrote plays, poems and fragments of memoir, it is at times hard to see how she managed to pay so much attention to the fine details through which her detective stories both inform and misdirect. Charles Osborne's at times almost devotional biography does not obscure some of the problems-Christie persisted in a snide anti-Semitism until the end of her life and her politics were both naive and reactionary; and yet, he demonstrates time and time again, there is an emotional honesty in the best of her work that is rare in the purely puzzle-oriented detective story. Osborne devotes considerable ingenuity to telling us as much as possible about each and every one of her books and plays without giving endings away; he is knowledgeable and thoughtful about even the most obscure of her short stories. The main threads of the non-writing life are here too-the disastrous first marriage, the disappearance with almost certainly fake amnesia, the travels with the archaeologist who made her happy. This is a book which stresses the lively intelligence of its subject, and shares it. -Roz Kaveney.
Publication date: 1998-11-04
RRP: £6.99
Price: £61.01
Review Technical Virgins / The Lilliput Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-02-06
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.59
Review A Man Without a Country: A Memoir of Life in George W. Bush's America / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Creator: Anne Olivier Bell
Publication date: 1980-09
Dewey code: 828.91203
Price: £13.09
Review Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume 2: 002 (Diary of Virginia Woolf) / Harvest/HBJ Book:
Creator: Nancy M. Tischler
Publication date: 2006-02-07
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.19
Review The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: 1945-57: v. 2: 1945-57: v. 2 / Oberon Books Ltd:
Publication date: 1977-10
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £7.95
Price: £70.79
Review Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist / Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-04-29
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £25.00
Price: £15.23
Review The Hidden Houses of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell / Robert Hale Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1990-11-05
Price: £19.95
Review Dickens: Christmas Edition / Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd:In this remarkable new biography, Peter Ackroyd offers a different view of Dickens to that presented in his earlier study of the author. In that book, Ackroyd's attempts to mimic the voice of the great writer were highly controversial, though some saw the book as a radical re-invention of the biography form. There is no arguing with the brilliant achievement of the more straightforward Charles Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion, however; the picture of Dickens and his complicated private life that emerges is fastidiously detailed and powerfully evocative, while Ackroyd's customary skill at creating a panoply of the city of London is as dazzling as ever (London, is, in fact, the subject of another biography by the author, who is unquestionably the keenest chronicler of the city's colourful history). Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was outwardly a picture of Victorian rectitude, but whose love life was as complicated (and unconventional) as any modern writer. Dickens had everything-fame, success and riches-but he died harbouring a deep sadness he had experienced all his life. He was a man of mercurial character, had enormous vitality and humour, but he also had a sense of loss and longing that would constantly appear in his work. Like many eminent Victorians, he led a double life: although he insisted that nothing in the newspapers he edited should upset his middle-class readers, he regularly indulged in dubious night-time escapades with fellow author Wilkie Collins, and, for the last 13 years of his life, kept a secret mistress. While presenting a warm but astringent portrait of the man who (along with George Eliot) can be classed as the greatest writer of his age, Ackroyd also masterfully recreates the relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan, a strong and intelligent woman (herself the subject of a biography by Claire Tomalin, The Inviisble Woman who, like her lover, outwardly observed the proprieties while living her real life behind closed doors. Ackroyd also vividly conjures the reality of Victorian life, the issues that sparked Dickens' fervent call for social reform, and the great landmarks of the time, which profoundly affected his life and work. -Barry Forshaw.
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-10-07
Dewey code: 741.5973
Price: £18.00
Review Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! / Pantheon Books:
Authors
- Don Lasseter
- Glenn L. Feole
- Glen L. Feole
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £14.00
Price: £2.76
Review The Complete Patricia Cornwell Companion / Berkley Publishing Group:
Publication date: 1988-09-01
Dewey code: 920
Price: £12.95
Review In the Wake of the Portuguese Navigators / Carcanet Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-10-25
Dewey code: 920
Price: £25.00
Review Ceaseless Turmoil: Diaries 1988-1992 / John Murray Publishers Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1997-01-01
Dewey code: 150
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.70
Review C.G.Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships / Daimon Books:
Publication date: 2002-01-10
Dewey code: 070.51092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.01
Review Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood / Granta Books:
Creator: J.G. Nichols
Edition: first modern ed
Publication date: 2002-07-15
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £6.99
Price: £4.60
Review Life of Dante (Hesperus Classics) / Hesperus Press Ltd:
Publication date: 1989-12
Dewey code: 823.912
Price: £18.29
Review Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and His Friends / Houghton Mifflin (T):
Publication date: 2000-01-25
Dewey code: 821.6
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.72
Review On the Trail of Robert Burns (On the Trail of) (On the Trail of) / Luath Press Ltd:
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