Review, buy Novelists, Poets & Playwrights: James Herbert: Devil in the Dark, And When Did You Last See Your Father?, The Girl from Hockley: Growing Up in Working Class Birmingham, Dirk Bogarde: The authorised biography: The Authorised Biography, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, Searching For The Secret River: The Story Behind the Bestselling Novel, Virginia Woolf, Nancy Mitford (Vintage lives), Shakespeare: The Biography, The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas (Penguin Modern Classics), George Eliot, Desert Solitaire, The Heart of a Woman, And Still I Rise, The Smoking Diaries, Hand in Hand: An Anthology of Love Poems, George Orwell: As I Please, 1943-1945 v. 3: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters: As I Please, 1943-1945 v. 3 (Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters George Orwell), The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics), Paula, Shakespeare: The Biography

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Review Metro Books,London / James Herbert: Devil in the Dark

James Herbert: Devil in the Dark (Metro Books,London)

Authors

Craig Cabell

Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-04-30
Dewey code: 823.914
RRP: ~~£7.99~~
Price: £6.39

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Review Granta Books / And When Did You Last See Your Father?

And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Granta Books)

Authors

Blake Morrison

Publication date: 2007-10-01
RRP: ~~£7.99~~
Price: £0.65

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Review Virago Press Ltd / The Girl from Hockley: Growing Up in Working Class Birmingham

The Girl from Hockley: Growing Up in Working Class Birmingham (Virago Press Ltd)

Authors

Kathleen Dayus

Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2006-08-21
Dewey code: 920
RRP: ~~£7.99~~
Price: £2.77

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Review Phoenix / Dirk Bogarde: The authorised biography: The Authorised Biography

Dirk Bogarde: The authorised biography: The Authorised Biography (Phoenix)

Authors

John Coldstream

Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-08-04
Dewey code: 791.43028092
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £0.54

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Review Arrow Books Ltd / The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde

The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde (Arrow Books Ltd)

Authors

Neil McKenna

Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-07-17
RRP: ~~£12.99~~
Price: £8.10

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Review Canongate Books / Searching For The Secret River: The Story Behind the Bestselling Novel

Searching For The Secret River: The Story Behind the Bestselling Novel (Canongate Books)

Authors

Kate Grenville

Publication date: 2007-07-05
RRP: ~~£8.99~~
Price: £0.98

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Virginia Woolf (Vintage)

Authors

Hermione Lee

Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1997-10-02
RRP: ~~£11.99~~
Price: £6.51

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"My God, how does one write a biography?" Virginia Woolf once asked. Hermione Lee begins her biography, Virginia Woolf, with the same question. Over the years, many biographers have approached Woolf from various directions: she was mad; she was abused; she was weak; she was a survivor. Quentin Bell, Woolf's nephew, wrote his biography of Woolf from a relative's perspective; now Hermione Lee presents yet another interpretation of the great writer's life. Certainly, she had her work cut out. Virginia Woolf was famous among her contemporaries for exaggeration and invention, making even her private diaries suspect, yet often within the pages of her fiction exist solid strands of autobiography. "The life-writer must explore and understand the gap between the outer self. and the secret self," Lee writes. [+]

In compiling her account of Woolf's life, she attempted to encompass both selves by researching letters, diaries, and personal papers, as well as Woolf's published works and previous biographies. Amazingly, she has organised this mass of information to present a clear and forceful picture of a woman who was brave, brilliant, and all too aware of the contradictions that raged within her. Virginia Woolf is a well written, well considered portrait befitting its maddeningly elusive subject.

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