Authors
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan
- Rupert Snell
- Baccana
RRP: £29.58
Price: £14.75
Review In the Afternoon of Time: An Autobiography / Viking Pr:
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £20.00
Price: £6.98
Review Anna of all the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-06-17
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.99
Review Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats - A Portrait / Virgin Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1995-08-03
Price: £7.99
Review Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 1995-09-07
Dewey code: 823.912
Price: £19.99
Review Henry Williamson: Tarka and the Last Romantic (Biography, Letters & Diaries) / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1993-09-24
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.95
Review Dorothy L.Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life / Lion Hudson Plc:
Publication date: 2006-05-05
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £22.95
Price: £15.93
Review Christina Rossetti: A Biographical and Critical Study / Kessinger Publishing Co:
Creator: Candida Lycett Green
Publication date: 1995-10-09
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.99
Review Letters: 1926-51 v. 1 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-12-31
Dewey code: 891.5533
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.79
Review Sadeq Hedayat: The Life and Legend of an Iranian Writer / I B Tauris & Co Ltd:
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 1991-11-20
Dewey code: 811.52
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.46
Review On the Trail of Robert Service (On the Trail of) (On the Trail of) / Luath Press Ltd:
Publication date: 1995-09-28
Dewey code: 942.789080922
Price: £16.00
Review Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir / Viking:
Creator: Lois Ames
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2004-10
Dewey code: 811.54
RRP: £9.77
Price: £6.24
Review Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters / Mariner Books:
Publication date: 2001-02-01
Dewey code: 811.54
RRP: £20.00
Price: £29.28
Review Bukowski in Pictures ("Rebel Inc") / Rebel inc.:
Publication date: 1993-09-23
Price: £22.50
Review Gavin Maxwell: A Life / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Authors
- Timothy McMahon
- Padraig O'Fathaigh
Dewey code: 941.50821
RRP: £6.95
Price: £3.64
Review P?draig ? Fathaigh's War of Independence: Recollections of a Galway Gaelic Leaguer (Irish narratives) / Cork University Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-11
Dewey code: 821.7
Price: £26.06
Review John Clare / Farrar Straus Giroux:
Edition: Numbered First Edition
Publication date: 2000-05-18
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £18.00
Price: £12.25
Review Experience / Jonathan Cape, London:At one point in this remarkable book, Martin Amis refers to a phrase he coined in a 1983 newspaper piece on Saul Bellow. "Higher autobiography", intended to convey a fork taken by late 20th century literature, lingers on the palate long after the final page, awash with pictures of his various children. He is no longer "the kid", as Bellow puts it to him after the death of father Kingsley in 1995, and this generational shift is sharply in evidence within the quietly smouldering pages of Experience. Shunning orthodox chronology for more satisfying linearity, Amis explores the issues that have dogged his life and his reputation for too long. Though he is angry-mostly with the English media-the tone of the book is one of patient memorial and reconciliation, with most obviously Kingsley, and his own manifestations, but also with his "missing"-the cousin, Lucy Partington, a victim of Fred West's "prepotence", and the daughter, Delilah, by an earlier relationship. Gossip column titbits are confronted head-on: divorce, the change of literary agent, the falling-out with Julian Barnes, the row with Kingsley's biographer Eric Jacobs and, of course, the Teeth (actually deserving of a full set of capitals; the hardest heart would flinch and whimper at the reconstructive surgery he endured, ignorantly disparaged as "cosmetic"). The revelation of the book, however, lies in the body of the book, in its weave and stitching. Copious footnotes adorn most pages, not digressive but novelistically collusive to a self-defeating desire to "speak without artifice". A book of love, it is also one of the funniest books ever to wear the cloak of death and mortality so constantly. Money was a novel, says Amis, about "the fear that childlessness will condemn you to childishness". [+]This volume, about how many people leave a room compared to entering it-to quote a recurrent theme-exorcises that particular fear, and a more general dread that has perpetually haunted his prose. Experience, pitched between his splendid journalism and his fiction, is a wake-up call to those who have too easily dismissed his work. It is a considerable, haunting work. -David Vincent.
Edition: 1st HarperPerennial Ed
Publication date: 1992-02
Dewey code: 823.8
RRP: £10.76
Price: £73.57
Review Dickens: Life and Times / HarperPerennial: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.
Creator: John Shrapnel
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2001-07-31
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.91
Price: £4.21
Review A Life of Dante / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2004-11-04
RRP: £20.00
Price: £1.58
Review Patrick O'Brian: The making of the novelist: The Making of the Novelist / Century:
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