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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 SALE 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. 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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 SALE Quick view sku: X97434K Nicholas Murray / A Life of Matthew Arnold (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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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... 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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 SALE 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... 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP1814 Eileen O'Casey / Sean (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 sku: VP1741 Andrew White / Thomas Mann (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 sku: MED3060 John Gross - Joyce ( Fontana Modern Masters Series ) - PB - 1971 Issued as part of the popular 1970s series of publications on "Modern Masters": study guides focused on modernist writers and thinkers.In the first half of the book Gross provides us more with his own impressions of Joyce than with a straight biography,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW13438H Carlo Gébler / Father & I : A Memoir (Hardback) Carlo Gebler's childhood was one of prohibitions: no sweets, no comics, no toys, no friends to the house to play; a childhood dominated by his father Ernest Gebler's belief in discipline and Joseph Stalin. Ernest Gebler was a writer whose novel The... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2689H Caitlin Thomas / Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas (Hardback) Caitlin Macnamara married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales and had three children. 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MSRP: £16.93 Was: £16.93 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR10362H Daphne du Maurier / Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer Both her novels and her non-fiction reveal Daphne du Maurier's overwhelming desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 88257H Peter Ackroyd / Dickens Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Small format hardcover, 1ST PRINTING, 1980... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG432 Stephen Gwynn - Oliver Goldsmith ( A Biography) - HB - 1937 ( Originally 1935) Hardcover, a reprint 2 years after initial publication, as part of the Keystone Series . A biography of the poet Oliver Goldsmith. This copy bears a (modern) signature on the front endpaper by a more recent owner with the note 'descendant of Oliver... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990 Published by Raven Arts PRESS, 1990, paperback. A biography of the frequently controversial Irish author, who broadcasted from Nazi Germany during WW2. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4100 Eileen O'Casey - Sean : A Biography ( Edited by J.C Trewin) - PB 1973 Illustrated, Pan paperback edition, 1973 , after first publication In hardcover in 1971. A touchingly intimate portait of her husband and his friends by the actress who became wife to a middle aged genius. 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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 SALE 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. 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW13438H Carlo Gébler / Father & I : A Memoir (Hardback) Carlo Gebler's childhood was one of prohibitions: no sweets, no comics, no toys, no friends to the house to play; a childhood dominated by his father Ernest Gebler's belief in discipline and Joseph Stalin. Ernest Gebler was a writer whose novel The... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2689H Caitlin Thomas / Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas (Hardback) Caitlin Macnamara married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales and had three children. 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MSRP: £16.93 Was: £16.93 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR10362H Daphne du Maurier / Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer Both her novels and her non-fiction reveal Daphne du Maurier's overwhelming desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG432 Stephen Gwynn - Oliver Goldsmith ( A Biography) - HB - 1937 ( Originally 1935) Hardcover, a reprint 2 years after initial publication, as part of the Keystone Series . A biography of the poet Oliver Goldsmith. This copy bears a (modern) signature on the front endpaper by a more recent owner with the note 'descendant of Oliver... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990 Published by Raven Arts PRESS, 1990, paperback. A biography of the frequently controversial Irish author, who broadcasted from Nazi Germany during WW2. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4100 Eileen O'Casey - Sean : A Biography ( Edited by J.C Trewin) - PB 1973 Illustrated, Pan paperback edition, 1973 , after first publication In hardcover in 1971. A touchingly intimate portait of her husband and his friends by the actress who became wife to a middle aged genius. 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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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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW13438H Carlo Gébler / Father & I : A Memoir (Hardback) Carlo Gebler's childhood was one of prohibitions: no sweets, no comics, no toys, no friends to the house to play; a childhood dominated by his father Ernest Gebler's belief in discipline and Joseph Stalin. Ernest Gebler was a writer whose novel The... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2689H Caitlin Thomas / Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas (Hardback) Caitlin Macnamara married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales and had three children. 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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It admirably complements the passion and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
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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 SALE 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. 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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 SALE Quick view sku: X97434K Nicholas Murray / A Life of Matthew Arnold (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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW13438H Carlo Gébler / Father & I : A Memoir (Hardback) Carlo Gebler's childhood was one of prohibitions: no sweets, no comics, no toys, no friends to the house to play; a childhood dominated by his father Ernest Gebler's belief in discipline and Joseph Stalin. Ernest Gebler was a writer whose novel The... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2689H Caitlin Thomas / Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas (Hardback) Caitlin Macnamara married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales and had three children. 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG432 Stephen Gwynn - Oliver Goldsmith ( A Biography) - HB - 1937 ( Originally 1935) Hardcover, a reprint 2 years after initial publication, as part of the Keystone Series . A biography of the poet Oliver Goldsmith. This copy bears a (modern) signature on the front endpaper by a more recent owner with the note 'descendant of Oliver... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990 Published by Raven Arts PRESS, 1990, paperback. A biography of the frequently controversial Irish author, who broadcasted from Nazi Germany during WW2. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4100 Eileen O'Casey - Sean : A Biography ( Edited by J.C Trewin) - PB 1973 Illustrated, Pan paperback edition, 1973 , after first publication In hardcover in 1971. A touchingly intimate portait of her husband and his friends by the actress who became wife to a middle aged genius. 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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 SALE 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. 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW13438H Carlo Gébler / Father & I : A Memoir (Hardback) Carlo Gebler's childhood was one of prohibitions: no sweets, no comics, no toys, no friends to the house to play; a childhood dominated by his father Ernest Gebler's belief in discipline and Joseph Stalin. Ernest Gebler was a writer whose novel The... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2689H Caitlin Thomas / Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas (Hardback) Caitlin Macnamara married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales and had three children. 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MSRP: £16.93 Was: £16.93 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR10362H Daphne du Maurier / Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer Both her novels and her non-fiction reveal Daphne du Maurier's overwhelming desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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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 SALE 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. 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW13438H Carlo Gébler / Father & I : A Memoir (Hardback) Carlo Gebler's childhood was one of prohibitions: no sweets, no comics, no toys, no friends to the house to play; a childhood dominated by his father Ernest Gebler's belief in discipline and Joseph Stalin. Ernest Gebler was a writer whose novel The... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2689H Caitlin Thomas / Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas (Hardback) Caitlin Macnamara married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales and had three children. 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MSRP: £16.93 Was: £16.93 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR10362H Daphne du Maurier / Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer Both her novels and her non-fiction reveal Daphne du Maurier's overwhelming desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG432 Stephen Gwynn - Oliver Goldsmith ( A Biography) - HB - 1937 ( Originally 1935) Hardcover, a reprint 2 years after initial publication, as part of the Keystone Series . A biography of the poet Oliver Goldsmith. This copy bears a (modern) signature on the front endpaper by a more recent owner with the note 'descendant of Oliver... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990 Published by Raven Arts PRESS, 1990, paperback. A biography of the frequently controversial Irish author, who broadcasted from Nazi Germany during WW2. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4100 Eileen O'Casey - Sean : A Biography ( Edited by J.C Trewin) - PB 1973 Illustrated, Pan paperback edition, 1973 , after first publication In hardcover in 1971. A touchingly intimate portait of her husband and his friends by the actress who became wife to a middle aged genius. It admirably complements the passion and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
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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 SALE 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. 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW13438H Carlo Gébler / Father & I : A Memoir (Hardback) Carlo Gebler's childhood was one of prohibitions: no sweets, no comics, no toys, no friends to the house to play; a childhood dominated by his father Ernest Gebler's belief in discipline and Joseph Stalin. Ernest Gebler was a writer whose novel The... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2689H Caitlin Thomas / Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas (Hardback) Caitlin Macnamara married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales and had three children. 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MSRP: £16.93 Was: £16.93 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR10362H Daphne du Maurier / Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer Both her novels and her non-fiction reveal Daphne du Maurier's overwhelming desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG432 Stephen Gwynn - Oliver Goldsmith ( A Biography) - HB - 1937 ( Originally 1935) Hardcover, a reprint 2 years after initial publication, as part of the Keystone Series . A biography of the poet Oliver Goldsmith. This copy bears a (modern) signature on the front endpaper by a more recent owner with the note 'descendant of Oliver... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990 Published by Raven Arts PRESS, 1990, paperback. A biography of the frequently controversial Irish author, who broadcasted from Nazi Germany during WW2. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4100 Eileen O'Casey - Sean : A Biography ( Edited by J.C Trewin) - PB 1973 Illustrated, Pan paperback edition, 1973 , after first publication In hardcover in 1971. A touchingly intimate portait of her husband and his friends by the actress who became wife to a middle aged genius. It admirably complements the passion and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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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. 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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 SALE 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... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW13438H Carlo Gébler / Father & I : A Memoir (Hardback) Carlo Gebler's childhood was one of prohibitions: no sweets, no comics, no toys, no friends to the house to play; a childhood dominated by his father Ernest Gebler's belief in discipline and Joseph Stalin. Ernest Gebler was a writer whose novel The... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2689H Caitlin Thomas / Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas (Hardback) Caitlin Macnamara married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales and had three children. 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MSRP: £16.93 Was: £16.93 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR10362H Daphne du Maurier / Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer Both her novels and her non-fiction reveal Daphne du Maurier's overwhelming desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 88257H Peter Ackroyd / Dickens Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Small format hardcover, 1ST PRINTING, 1980... MSRP: Now: £5.81 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG432 Stephen Gwynn - Oliver Goldsmith ( A Biography) - HB - 1937 ( Originally 1935) Hardcover, a reprint 2 years after initial publication, as part of the Keystone Series . A biography of the poet Oliver Goldsmith. This copy bears a (modern) signature on the front endpaper by a more recent owner with the note 'descendant of Oliver... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990 Published by Raven Arts PRESS, 1990, paperback. A biography of the frequently controversial Irish author, who broadcasted from Nazi Germany during WW2. MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4100 Eileen O'Casey - Sean : A Biography ( Edited by J.C Trewin) - PB 1973 Illustrated, Pan paperback edition, 1973 , after first publication In hardcover in 1971. A touchingly intimate portait of her husband and his friends by the actress who became wife to a middle aged genius. It admirably complements the passion and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
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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 SALE 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. 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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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 SALE Quick view sku: X97434K Nicholas Murray / A Life of Matthew Arnold (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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW13438H Carlo Gébler / Father & I : A Memoir (Hardback) Carlo Gebler's childhood was one of prohibitions: no sweets, no comics, no toys, no friends to the house to play; a childhood dominated by his father Ernest Gebler's belief in discipline and Joseph Stalin. Ernest Gebler was a writer whose novel The... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2689H Caitlin Thomas / Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas (Hardback) Caitlin Macnamara married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales and had three children. 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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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. 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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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 SALE 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... 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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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 SALE Quick view sku: X97434K Nicholas Murray / A Life of Matthew Arnold (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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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... 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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 SALE Quick view sku: X97434K Nicholas Murray / A Life of Matthew Arnold (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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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... 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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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 SALE 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. 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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 SALE 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... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW13438H Carlo Gébler / Father & I : A Memoir (Hardback) Carlo Gebler's childhood was one of prohibitions: no sweets, no comics, no toys, no friends to the house to play; a childhood dominated by his father Ernest Gebler's belief in discipline and Joseph Stalin. Ernest Gebler was a writer whose novel The... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2689H Caitlin Thomas / Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas (Hardback) Caitlin Macnamara married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales and had three children. 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MSRP: £16.93 Was: £16.93 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR10362H Daphne du Maurier / Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer Both her novels and her non-fiction reveal Daphne du Maurier's overwhelming desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past,... 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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 SALE Quick view sku: X97434K Nicholas Murray / A Life of Matthew Arnold (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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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... 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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 SALE 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... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW13438H Carlo Gébler / Father & I : A Memoir (Hardback) Carlo Gebler's childhood was one of prohibitions: no sweets, no comics, no toys, no friends to the house to play; a childhood dominated by his father Ernest Gebler's belief in discipline and Joseph Stalin. Ernest Gebler was a writer whose novel The... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2689H Caitlin Thomas / Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas (Hardback) Caitlin Macnamara married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales and had three children. 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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It admirably complements the passion and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view Details sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: 88257H Peter Ackroyd / Dickens MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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 SALE Quick view Details sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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 SALE Quick view sku: X97434K Nicholas Murray / A Life of Matthew Arnold (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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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... 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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 SALE 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97616K Dolores MacKenna / William Trevor: The Writer and His Work (Large Paperback) This study of Wiliam Trevor sheds light on this elusive character. It examines how his early years and background shaped his novels. It also evaluates the literary influences on his work and analyses his technical skills and creative evolution... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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 SALE 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... 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Quick view Details sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: 88257H Peter Ackroyd / Dickens MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 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 SALE Quick view Details sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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. 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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 SALE Quick view sku: X97434K Nicholas Murray / A Life of Matthew Arnold (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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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... 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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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 SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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 SALE Quick view sku: X97434K Nicholas Murray / A Life of Matthew Arnold (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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X98836K James Nagel / Ernest Hemingway : The Oak Park Legacy (Large Paperback) Ernest Hemingway: The Oak Park Legacy is the first extensive examination of the relationship of Hemingway to his hometown, Oak Park, Illinois, and the influence its people, places, and underlying values had on his early work. In this volume, 11... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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 SALE 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97616K Dolores MacKenna / William Trevor: The Writer and His Work (Large Paperback) This study of Wiliam Trevor sheds light on this elusive character. It examines how his early years and background shaped his novels. It also evaluates the literary influences on his work and analyses his technical skills and creative evolution... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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 SALE 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... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW13438H Carlo Gébler / Father & I : A Memoir (Hardback) Carlo Gebler's childhood was one of prohibitions: no sweets, no comics, no toys, no friends to the house to play; a childhood dominated by his father Ernest Gebler's belief in discipline and Joseph Stalin. Ernest Gebler was a writer whose novel The... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2689H Caitlin Thomas / Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas (Hardback) Caitlin Macnamara married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales and had three children. 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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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 SALE Quick view Details sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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. 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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... 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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 SALE Quick view sku: X97434K Nicholas Murray / A Life of Matthew Arnold (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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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... 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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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... 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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 SALE 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97616K Dolores MacKenna / William Trevor: The Writer and His Work (Large Paperback) This study of Wiliam Trevor sheds light on this elusive character. 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3060 John Gross - Joyce ( Fontana Modern Masters Series ) - PB - 1971 Issued as part of the popular 1970s series of publications on "Modern Masters": study guides focused on modernist writers and thinkers.In the first half of the book Gross provides us more with his own impressions of Joyce than with a straight biography,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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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 SALE 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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Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97434K Nicholas Murray / A Life of Matthew Arnold (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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW13438H Carlo Gébler / Father & I : A Memoir (Hardback) Carlo Gebler's childhood was one of prohibitions: no sweets, no comics, no toys, no friends to the house to play; a childhood dominated by his father Ernest Gebler's belief in discipline and Joseph Stalin. Ernest Gebler was a writer whose novel The... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2689H Caitlin Thomas / Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas (Hardback) Caitlin Macnamara married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales and had three children. 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MSRP: £16.93 Was: £16.93 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR10362H Daphne du Maurier / Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer Both her novels and her non-fiction reveal Daphne du Maurier's overwhelming desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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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. 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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 SALE Quick view sku: X97434K Nicholas Murray / A Life of Matthew Arnold (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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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... 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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 SALE 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... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW13438H Carlo Gébler / Father & I : A Memoir (Hardback) Carlo Gebler's childhood was one of prohibitions: no sweets, no comics, no toys, no friends to the house to play; a childhood dominated by his father Ernest Gebler's belief in discipline and Joseph Stalin. Ernest Gebler was a writer whose novel The... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2689H Caitlin Thomas / Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas (Hardback) Caitlin Macnamara married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales and had three children. In this biography, she reveals their life together and their solemn duty to surfeit themselves limitlessly with drink, to wild extinction... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: £4.91 Add to Cart SALE Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: BIG436,BIG437,BIG438,BIG439,BIG708 Alannah Hopkin - A Very Strange Man : A Memoir of Aidan Higgins - PB - BRAND NEW This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a... 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 88257H Peter Ackroyd / Dickens Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Small format hardcover, 1ST PRINTING, 1980... 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It admirably complements the passion and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
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 SALE 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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 SALE Quick view sku: X97434K Nicholas Murray / A Life of Matthew Arnold (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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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... 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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 SALE 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97616K Dolores MacKenna / William Trevor: The Writer and His Work (Large Paperback) This study of Wiliam Trevor sheds light on this elusive character. It examines how his early years and background shaped his novels. It also evaluates the literary influences on his work and analyses his technical skills and creative evolution... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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 SALE 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: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.13 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 SALE Quick view sku: X90269K Judith Cook, J.B. Priestley / Priestley (Hardback) This is a comprehensive biography of J.B. Priestley which has been written with the co-operation of the Priestley children and, in the 18 months before her death, of his widow, Jacquetta Hawkes. All of our books are second hand, and while... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW13438H Carlo Gébler / Father & I : A Memoir (Hardback) Carlo Gebler's childhood was one of prohibitions: no sweets, no comics, no toys, no friends to the house to play; a childhood dominated by his father Ernest Gebler's belief in discipline and Joseph Stalin. Ernest Gebler was a writer whose novel The... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2689H Caitlin Thomas / Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas (Hardback) Caitlin Macnamara married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales and had three children. 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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It admirably complements the passion and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
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... 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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 SALE Quick view sku: X97434K Nicholas Murray / A Life of Matthew Arnold (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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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... 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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 SALE 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... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW13438H Carlo Gébler / Father & I : A Memoir (Hardback) Carlo Gebler's childhood was one of prohibitions: no sweets, no comics, no toys, no friends to the house to play; a childhood dominated by his father Ernest Gebler's belief in discipline and Joseph Stalin. Ernest Gebler was a writer whose novel The... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2689H Caitlin Thomas / Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas (Hardback) Caitlin Macnamara married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales and had three children. 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MSRP: £16.93 Was: £16.93 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR10362H Daphne du Maurier / Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer Both her novels and her non-fiction reveal Daphne du Maurier's overwhelming desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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It admirably complements the passion and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
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... 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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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 SALE Quick view sku: X97434K Nicholas Murray / A Life of Matthew Arnold (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... 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MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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 SALE 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97616K Dolores MacKenna / William Trevor: The Writer and His Work (Large Paperback) This study of Wiliam Trevor sheds light on this elusive character. 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MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.13 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 SALE Quick view sku: X90269K Judith Cook, J.B. Priestley / Priestley (Hardback) This is a comprehensive biography of J.B. Priestley which has been written with the co-operation of the Priestley children and, in the 18 months before her death, of his widow, Jacquetta Hawkes. All of our books are second hand, and while... MSRP: £3.57 Was: £3.57 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X90214K Andrew Motion / Keats - A Biography (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3060 John Gross - Joyce ( Fontana Modern Masters Series ) - PB - 1971 Issued as part of the popular 1970s series of publications on "Modern Masters": study guides focused on modernist writers and thinkers.In the first half of the book Gross provides us more with his own impressions of Joyce than with a straight biography,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 88257H Peter Ackroyd / Dickens Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Small format hardcover, 1ST PRINTING, 1980... 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It admirably complements the passion and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
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 SALE 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. 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MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 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 SALE Quick view sku: X97434K Nicholas Murray / A Life of Matthew Arnold (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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE 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... 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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 SALE 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97616K Dolores MacKenna / William Trevor: The Writer and His Work (Large Paperback) This study of Wiliam Trevor sheds light on this elusive character. It examines how his early years and background shaped his novels. It also evaluates the literary influences on his work and analyses his technical skills and creative evolution... MSRP: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 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 SALE 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... 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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 SALE Quick view sku: X90269K Judith Cook, J.B. Priestley / Priestley (Hardback) This is a comprehensive biography of J.B. Priestley which has been written with the co-operation of the Priestley children and, in the 18 months before her death, of his widow, Jacquetta Hawkes. All of our books are second hand, and while... 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MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: wW13438H Carlo Gébler / Father & I : A Memoir (Hardback) Carlo Gebler's childhood was one of prohibitions: no sweets, no comics, no toys, no friends to the house to play; a childhood dominated by his father Ernest Gebler's belief in discipline and Joseph Stalin. Ernest Gebler was a writer whose novel The... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: wW2689H Caitlin Thomas / Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas (Hardback) Caitlin Macnamara married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales and had three children. 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MSRP: £16.93 Was: £16.93 Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 75180H Gabriel Fitzmaurice / The World of Bryan MacMahon Fascinating essays examine an Irish literary legend and his times. With the publication of his posthumous novel, Hero Town, there is renewed interest in MacMahon, and these contributors examine the world in which he lived, the world he inherited,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: rR10362H Daphne du Maurier / Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer Both her novels and her non-fiction reveal Daphne du Maurier's overwhelming desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past,... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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It admirably complements the passion and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
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 SALE 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: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED692 Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - PB - Autobiography 1990 ( originally 1968) Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, originally published in 1968, is a volume of autobiography by... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3358 Leon Edel - Bloomsbury : A House of Lions - 1981 ( Vintage Penguin PB ) Examines the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the "Bloomsbury set '' a group of highly influential authors and cultural figures in interwar Britain - economist Maynard Keynes, political scientist Leonard Woolf, authors Virginia Woolf and... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. 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SALE 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: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart
SALE 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart
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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 SALE Quick view sku: X97434K Nicholas Murray / A Life of Matthew Arnold (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... 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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 SALE 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97616K Dolores MacKenna / William Trevor: The Writer and His Work (Large Paperback) This study of Wiliam Trevor sheds light on this elusive character. 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3060 John Gross - Joyce ( Fontana Modern Masters Series ) - PB - 1971 Issued as part of the popular 1970s series of publications on "Modern Masters": study guides focused on modernist writers and thinkers.In the first half of the book Gross provides us more with his own impressions of Joyce than with a straight biography,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... 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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 SALE 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: £3.13 Was: £3.13 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X97616K Dolores MacKenna / William Trevor: The Writer and His Work (Large Paperback) This study of Wiliam Trevor sheds light on this elusive character. 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3060 John Gross - Joyce ( Fontana Modern Masters Series ) - PB - 1971 Issued as part of the popular 1970s series of publications on "Modern Masters": study guides focused on modernist writers and thinkers.In the first half of the book Gross provides us more with his own impressions of Joyce than with a straight biography,... MSRP: Now: £5.36 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61970K Stanley Wells / Shakespeare: Off the Record Shakespeare is the archetypal literary magus, wise and prolific, his imagined realm extending vastly to encompass history, love, emotions, all the vices and virtues, town life in pubs and courts, the countryside, sea voyages, battles, supernatural... 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It admirably complements the passion and... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: X91818H Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback) The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the... MSRP: £4.02 Was: £4.02 Now: £1.13 Add to Cart 1 2 Next 1 2 Next Compare Selected × OK
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