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Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. 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Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. 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Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... 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Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... 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Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
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Edith Somerville and Martin Ross were cousins and co -authors of some of the most noteworthy Irish literature in teh late 19th and early 20th century, as well as portraying Irish and Anglo-Irish life in their... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. 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Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. 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Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. 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Edith Somerville and Martin Ross were cousins and co -authors of some of the most noteworthy Irish literature in teh late 19th and early 20th century, as well as portraying Irish and Anglo-Irish life in their... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4181 Antoinette Quinn - Patrick Kavanagh : Born-Again Romantic - PB A paperback Gill Books edition reprint 1993, of Antionette Quinn's biography of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere. In this critical assessment of... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. 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Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... 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Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: 88257H Peter Ackroyd / Dickens MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: BIG432 Stephen Gwynn - Oliver Goldsmith ( A Biography) - HB - 1937 ( Originally 1935) MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Details Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED4100 Eileen O'Casey - Sean : A Biography ( Edited by J.C Trewin) - PB 1973 MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED755 Hugh Hunt- Sean O'Casey ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1980 - BIOGRAPHY MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5700 Gifford Lewis - Somerville & Ross : The World of the Irish R.M - HB - 1985 Hardcover, published by Viking Penguin, 1985. Edith Somerville and Martin Ross were cousins and co -authors of some of the most noteworthy Irish literature in teh late 19th and early 20th century, as well as portraying Irish and Anglo-Irish life in their... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW23948K John Cheever / The Journals (Hardback) Begun in the late 1940s, these journals provide an insight into the creation of John Cheever's novels and stories. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5818K Charles Dickens: A Lifetime of Storytelling: A Legacy of Change (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4181 Antoinette Quinn - Patrick Kavanagh : Born-Again Romantic - PB A paperback Gill Books edition reprint 1993, of Antionette Quinn's biography of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere. In this critical assessment of... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: BIG432 Stephen Gwynn - Oliver Goldsmith ( A Biography) - HB - 1937 ( Originally 1935) MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Details Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED4100 Eileen O'Casey - Sean : A Biography ( Edited by J.C Trewin) - PB 1973 MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED755 Hugh Hunt- Sean O'Casey ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1980 - BIOGRAPHY MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5700 Gifford Lewis - Somerville & Ross : The World of the Irish R.M - HB - 1985 Hardcover, published by Viking Penguin, 1985. Edith Somerville and Martin Ross were cousins and co -authors of some of the most noteworthy Irish literature in teh late 19th and early 20th century, as well as portraying Irish and Anglo-Irish life in their... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW23948K John Cheever / The Journals (Hardback) Begun in the late 1940s, these journals provide an insight into the creation of John Cheever's novels and stories. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5818K Charles Dickens: A Lifetime of Storytelling: A Legacy of Change (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... 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Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... 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Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW23948K John Cheever / The Journals (Hardback) Begun in the late 1940s, these journals provide an insight into the creation of John Cheever's novels and stories. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5818K Charles Dickens: A Lifetime of Storytelling: A Legacy of Change (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4181 Antoinette Quinn - Patrick Kavanagh : Born-Again Romantic - PB A paperback Gill Books edition reprint 1993, of Antionette Quinn's biography of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere. In this critical assessment of... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990 MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED4100 Eileen O'Casey - Sean : A Biography ( Edited by J.C Trewin) - PB 1973 MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED755 Hugh Hunt- Sean O'Casey ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1980 - BIOGRAPHY MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5700 Gifford Lewis - Somerville & Ross : The World of the Irish R.M - HB - 1985 Hardcover, published by Viking Penguin, 1985. Edith Somerville and Martin Ross were cousins and co -authors of some of the most noteworthy Irish literature in teh late 19th and early 20th century, as well as portraying Irish and Anglo-Irish life in their... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW23948K John Cheever / The Journals (Hardback) Begun in the late 1940s, these journals provide an insight into the creation of John Cheever's novels and stories. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5818K Charles Dickens: A Lifetime of Storytelling: A Legacy of Change (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4181 Antoinette Quinn - Patrick Kavanagh : Born-Again Romantic - PB A paperback Gill Books edition reprint 1993, of Antionette Quinn's biography of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere. In this critical assessment of... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW23948K John Cheever / The Journals (Hardback) Begun in the late 1940s, these journals provide an insight into the creation of John Cheever's novels and stories. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5818K Charles Dickens: A Lifetime of Storytelling: A Legacy of Change (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. 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Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere. In this critical assessment of... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED755 Hugh Hunt- Sean O'Casey ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1980 - BIOGRAPHY MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5700 Gifford Lewis - Somerville & Ross : The World of the Irish R.M - HB - 1985 Hardcover, published by Viking Penguin, 1985. Edith Somerville and Martin Ross were cousins and co -authors of some of the most noteworthy Irish literature in teh late 19th and early 20th century, as well as portraying Irish and Anglo-Irish life in their... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW23948K John Cheever / The Journals (Hardback) Begun in the late 1940s, these journals provide an insight into the creation of John Cheever's novels and stories. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5818K Charles Dickens: A Lifetime of Storytelling: A Legacy of Change (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4181 Antoinette Quinn - Patrick Kavanagh : Born-Again Romantic - PB A paperback Gill Books edition reprint 1993, of Antionette Quinn's biography of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere. In this critical assessment of... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: MED755 Hugh Hunt- Sean O'Casey ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1980 - BIOGRAPHY MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5700 Gifford Lewis - Somerville & Ross : The World of the Irish R.M - HB - 1985 Hardcover, published by Viking Penguin, 1985. Edith Somerville and Martin Ross were cousins and co -authors of some of the most noteworthy Irish literature in teh late 19th and early 20th century, as well as portraying Irish and Anglo-Irish life in their... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW23948K John Cheever / The Journals (Hardback) Begun in the late 1940s, these journals provide an insight into the creation of John Cheever's novels and stories. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5818K Charles Dickens: A Lifetime of Storytelling: A Legacy of Change (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4181 Antoinette Quinn - Patrick Kavanagh : Born-Again Romantic - PB A paperback Gill Books edition reprint 1993, of Antionette Quinn's biography of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere. In this critical assessment of... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED5700 Gifford Lewis - Somerville & Ross : The World of the Irish R.M - HB - 1985 Hardcover, published by Viking Penguin, 1985. Edith Somerville and Martin Ross were cousins and co -authors of some of the most noteworthy Irish literature in teh late 19th and early 20th century, as well as portraying Irish and Anglo-Irish life in their... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW23948K John Cheever / The Journals (Hardback) Begun in the late 1940s, these journals provide an insight into the creation of John Cheever's novels and stories. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5818K Charles Dickens: A Lifetime of Storytelling: A Legacy of Change (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4181 Antoinette Quinn - Patrick Kavanagh : Born-Again Romantic - PB A paperback Gill Books edition reprint 1993, of Antionette Quinn's biography of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere. In this critical assessment of... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view First World War | sku: MED5386 Jon Stallworthy - Anthem for Doomed Youth : 12 Soldier Poets of the First World War - HB Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The First World War began with flag-waving, parades... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW23948K John Cheever / The Journals (Hardback) Begun in the late 1940s, these journals provide an insight into the creation of John Cheever's novels and stories. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5818K Charles Dickens: A Lifetime of Storytelling: A Legacy of Change (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4181 Antoinette Quinn - Patrick Kavanagh : Born-Again Romantic - PB A paperback Gill Books edition reprint 1993, of Antionette Quinn's biography of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere. In this critical assessment of... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED5152 Joseph Pearce - Literary Converts : Spiritual Inspiration in an age of Undelief - HB The 20th century has been marked both by belief and unbelief. While attendance at church has declined dramatically, the lives of many leaders have been influenced and inspired by Christianity. Joseph Pearce explores the world of some writers in the... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW23948K John Cheever / The Journals (Hardback) Begun in the late 1940s, these journals provide an insight into the creation of John Cheever's novels and stories. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5818K Charles Dickens: A Lifetime of Storytelling: A Legacy of Change (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4181 Antoinette Quinn - Patrick Kavanagh : Born-Again Romantic - PB A paperback Gill Books edition reprint 1993, of Antionette Quinn's biography of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere. In this critical assessment of... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW23948K John Cheever / The Journals (Hardback) Begun in the late 1940s, these journals provide an insight into the creation of John Cheever's novels and stories. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA5818K Charles Dickens: A Lifetime of Storytelling: A Legacy of Change (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4181 Antoinette Quinn - Patrick Kavanagh : Born-Again Romantic - PB A paperback Gill Books edition reprint 1993, of Antionette Quinn's biography of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere. In this critical assessment of... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... 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Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: aA5818K Charles Dickens: A Lifetime of Storytelling: A Legacy of Change (Coffee Table Book) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4181 Antoinette Quinn - Patrick Kavanagh : Born-Again Romantic - PB A paperback Gill Books edition reprint 1993, of Antionette Quinn's biography of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere. In this critical assessment of... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view First World War | sku: MED4658 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4181 Antoinette Quinn - Patrick Kavanagh : Born-Again Romantic - PB A paperback Gill Books edition reprint 1993, of Antionette Quinn's biography of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere. In this critical assessment of... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR14750K Gerald Hull / Falling into Monaghan This collection is a study of the poet's "settlement in the west" in South Ulster, on the border territory near the Slieve Beagh mountains. It deals with the consciousness of a kind of desolation that is sometimes bitter, often vigorous, frequently... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4181 Antoinette Quinn - Patrick Kavanagh : Born-Again Romantic - PB A paperback Gill Books edition reprint 1993, of Antionette Quinn's biography of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere. In this critical assessment of... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. 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MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED4310 Hesketh Pearson - Bernard Shaw - His Life and Personality - HB - 1950 A 1950 reprint ( poriginally 1949) of a biography of dramatist and Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4181 Antoinette Quinn - Patrick Kavanagh : Born-Again Romantic - PB A paperback Gill Books edition reprint 1993, of Antionette Quinn's biography of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere. In this critical assessment of... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED4181 Antoinette Quinn - Patrick Kavanagh : Born-Again Romantic - PB A paperback Gill Books edition reprint 1993, of Antionette Quinn's biography of Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Heavy age spotting to the top of the page block, uneven foxing and age spotting elsewhere. In this critical assessment of... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: aA4517K Martin Fido / William Shakespeare (Coffee Table Book) A non-traditional presentation of Shakespeare's life and times, this pictorial biography analyzes the diverse influences Elizabethan England exerted on the playwright, presenting an in-depth study of his plays and his career. This book is... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. Somerset Maughan - PB Published in this PB reprint edition, 1980, originally 1978. Tanning to pages, usual light edgewear. Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED968 Various Authors - Ernest Hemingway Interest - 5 Book Lot - Biography & Literay Criticism A collection of 5 books on the notable 20th century novelist, Ernest Hemingway - as follows - Hemingway's Genders : Rereading the Hemingway Text - HB - Robert Scholes & Nancy Comley - 1994 Yale UP Fame Became of Him - Hemingway as Public Writer... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: MED1592,MED1593,MED1594 Gráinne Hurley - Gratefully and Affectionately - Mary Lavin and the New Yorker - HB - BRAND NEW The first ever book about Mary Lavin's 18-year working relationship with The New Yorker and a fascinating insight into the lives of two brilliant 20th-century literary women. Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published... MSRP: £24.98 Now: £24.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... MSRP: Now: £8.94 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89259K Ariel Dorfman / Heading South, Looking North (Hardback) In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED308 Walter Jackson Bate - Coleridge : A Critical Biography - PB Partly a literary biography of Romantic era poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's life, and partly an examination of the poetry for which he remains best known. Originally published 1968, here in a 1987 reprint from Harvard UP. Sun fade to... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2448 Frederik Pohl - The Way the Future Was - A Memoir Published by Del Rey USA, 1979, (first published 1978) Frederik Pohl was one of the most influential and connected authors and organisers in the world of US 20th century Science Fiction, as well as being the author of award winning novels and short... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2202 Margaret Lane / The Bronte Story (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2015 Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984 Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: £3.57 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED4243 Elizabeth Shaw - How I Came to Berlin : A Memoir - BRAND NEW Elizabeth Shaw, who has until now remained all but unknown in her native Ireland, was one of the most celebrated children's authors in East Germany, producing a series of masterful children's books that have stayed in print since her death in 1992. She... MSRP: Now: £16.93 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1146 Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie : Recollections of W. 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