Biography: literary books

27211 books were found.

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Author: Salman Rushdie
ISBN: 9781787334793
Format: Hardback
$55.00

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account...  Read More >>

Joseph-Victor Le Clerc

Joseph-Victor Le Clerc

Author: Ernest Renan
ISBN: 9783988819123
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Joseph-Victor Le Clerc naquit � Paris le 2 d�cembre 1789. Enfant unique d'une modeste famille d'ouvriers, il perdit...  Read More >>

Time Come: Selected Prose

Time Come: Selected Prose

Author: Linton Kwesi Johnson
ISBN: 9781035006335
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A dynamic selection of Linton Kwesi Johnson’s most powerful prose writings, brought together for the first time....  Read More >>

black girl, no magic: Reflections on Race and Respectability

black girl, no magic: Reflections on Race and Respectability...

Author: Kimberly McIntosh
ISBN: 9780008477080
Format: Paperback
$24.99

In a complex world, who is allowed to be complicated? Who is entitled to a messy life full of triumphs, mistakes...  Read More >>

Four Stars: A Life. Reviewed.

Four Stars: A Life. Reviewed.

Author: Joel Golby
ISBN: 9780008284091
Format: Hardback
$26.41

The second book from acclaimed writer and journalist Joel Golby ‘There’s no one funnier...  Read More >>

First Things

First Things

Author: Harry Ricketts
ISBN: 9781776921386
Format: Paperback
$42.21

First memory. First going hitchhiking. First seeing my father angry. First shotgun. First poem. In First Things,...  Read More >>

Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale

Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale

Author: Paul Yamazaki ,  Rick Simonson
ISBN: 9781958846698
Format: Paperback
$36.83

Reading the Room is Paul Yamazaki's love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of the mind. Over...  Read More >>

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone...

Author: Amy Key
ISBN: 9781324095163
Format: Paperback
$47.49

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Arise And Go: W.B. Yeats and the people and places that inspired him

Arise And Go: W.B. Yeats and the people and places that...

Author: Kevin Connolly
ISBN: 9781788494854
Format: Paperback
$36.20

The idea of place runs like a river through the life and works of the poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. This book...  Read More >>

Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse

Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and...

Author: Alan MacEachern
ISBN: 9780228021490
Format: Paperback
$65.87

In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of a farm in Cavendish, PEI, already becoming known as inspiration...  Read More >>

Dus Aalim Shora: (Ten Islamic Scholar Poets)

Dus Aalim Shora: (Ten Islamic Scholar Poets)

Author: Zaheer Danish Umri
ISBN: 9789358728422
Format: Paperback
$68.61

Islam attests to the value of religious scholars by stating that they are the ones who fear God and possess wisdom...  Read More >>

Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse

Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and...

Author: Alan MacEachern
ISBN: 9780228021483
Format: Hardback
$290.40

In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of a farm in Cavendish, PEI, already becoming known as inspiration...  Read More >>

Letters around a Garden

Letters around a Garden

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke ,  Will Stone
ISBN: 9781803093345
Format: Hardback
$19.95

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The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin

The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin

Author: Patrick Barkham
ISBN: 9780241471487
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The definitive biography of Roger Deakin, beloved author of cult classic Waterlog Roger Deakin, author of the immortal...  Read More >>

Springfield Road: A Poet’s Childhood Revisited

Springfield Road: A Poet’s Childhood Revisited

Author: Salena Godden
ISBN: 9781805300243
Format: Paperback
$28.44

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The Real Arthur Miller: The Playwright Who Cared

The Real Arthur Miller: The Playwright Who Cared

Author: Andrew Norman
ISBN: 9781399040730
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Biography of US playwright Arthur Miller.  Read More >>

Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis

Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis

Author: Robert Cochran, Jr.
ISBN: 9781682262474
Format: Paperback
$44.00

A pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis (1933-2020), best known for the novel...  Read More >>

Under the Shade of the Tree Named Bhaskar

Under the Shade of the Tree Named Bhaskar

Author: Prasanta Maji
ISBN: 9781954021433
Format: Paperback
$50.13

The book is a kind of multi-hued diary, a first-person account (by the author) of the life and times of Bhaskar...  Read More >>

The Real JRR Tolkien: The Man Who Created Middle-Earth

The Real JRR Tolkien: The Man Who Created Middle-Earth...

Author: Jesse Xander
ISBN: 9781399003285
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A fresh linguistic, critical and anthropological perspective on Tolkien's life and works.  Read More >>

A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft...

Author: Lucy Sussex ,  Nancy Holder
ISBN: 9781922856401
Format: Paperback
$44.85

In 1797 an extraordinary visionary died, leaving behind a grieving husband, a two-year-old daughter, and a newborn....  Read More >>

The Inner Adventure: Conversations with Louis Calaferte

The Inner Adventure: Conversations with Louis Calaferte...

Author: Jean-Pierre Pauty ,  Willard Wood
ISBN: 9780810160668
Format: Hardback
$131.87

This work comprises interviews with the writer Louis Calaferte. In it, he reveals the creative process and philosophies...  Read More >>

Stumbling Blocks and Other Unfinished Work

Stumbling Blocks and Other Unfinished Work

Author: Delia Steverson ,  Delores Phillips
ISBN: 9780820364964
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Expands and contextualizes the unpublished works of the late African American writer Delores Phillips. Stumbling...  Read More >>

Kafka: Making of an Icon

Kafka: Making of an Icon

Author: Ritchie Robertson
ISBN: 9781851246229
Format: Hardback
$69.99

An authoritative collection of essays celebrating Kafka’s life and work, and examining how his writing has continued...  Read More >>

The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: Her Last Years and the Scandal That Made Her

The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: Her Last Years and...

Author: Graham Watson
ISBN: 9781803995373
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Backstabbing, stalking, and illicit love; discover the Brontë family as they’ve never been seen before  Read More >>

The Life of LTC Rolt: Where Engineering Met Literature

The Life of LTC Rolt: Where Engineering Met Literature...

Author: Victoria Owens
ISBN: 9781399056618
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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