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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. 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Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: €27.95 Now: €27.00 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... 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Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2232K Charles J. Shields / Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (Hardback) "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the most widely read American novel ever. Yet its creator, Harper Lee, has become a mysterious figure who routinely turns away reporters. She has never been the subject of a book--until now. "Mockingbird" is a colorful... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. 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Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... 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Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2944K Piers Dudgeon & Josephine Cox / Child of the North - Memoirs of a Northern Childhood (Coffee Table Book) Josephine Cox returns to the land of her birth, the environment which provides so many settings for her novels, and in the company of her fictional characters rediscovers the influences whiech define her as a writer. The author has talked at length... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2488K Kingsley Amis / Memoirs ( Hardback ) The renowned British author describes his youth, education at Oxford, career in the academic world, his decision to become a full-time writer, and encounters with such notables as Anthony Burgess, Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves, and Margaret... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press 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: €18.95 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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... 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Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp at head of spine) , now in a clear plastic removable... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2232K Charles J. Shields / Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (Hardback) "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the most widely read American novel ever. Yet its creator, Harper Lee, has become a mysterious figure who routinely turns away reporters. She has never been the subject of a book--until now. "Mockingbird" is a colorful... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10093K Vivian Mercier / Beckett/Beckett (Large Paperback) Beckett/Beckett: The Classic Study of a Modern Genius Written by an outstanding scholar and critic who was one of the first to recognize Beckett's genius, this classic study of the novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett has been praised for its... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9955K Jens Andersen / Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life (Large Paperback) Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book writer, a passionate novelist, a deft paper... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... 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Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press 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: €18.95 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 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: €27.95 Now: €27.00 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: MED705 George J Becker - D.H Lawrence - ( Modern Literature Monographs Series ) - HB 1980 MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: BIG432 Stephen Gwynn - Oliver Goldsmith ( A Biography) - HB - 1937 ( Originally 1935) MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2944K Piers Dudgeon & Josephine Cox / Child of the North - Memoirs of a Northern Childhood (Coffee Table Book) Josephine Cox returns to the land of her birth, the environment which provides so many settings for her novels, and in the company of her fictional characters rediscovers the influences whiech define her as a writer. The author has talked at length... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2488K Kingsley Amis / Memoirs ( Hardback ) The renowned British author describes his youth, education at Oxford, career in the academic world, his decision to become a full-time writer, and encounters with such notables as Anthony Burgess, Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves, and Margaret... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2232K Charles J. Shields / Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (Hardback) "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the most widely read American novel ever. Yet its creator, Harper Lee, has become a mysterious figure who routinely turns away reporters. She has never been the subject of a book--until now. "Mockingbird" is a colorful... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10093K Vivian Mercier / Beckett/Beckett (Large Paperback) Beckett/Beckett: The Classic Study of a Modern Genius Written by an outstanding scholar and critic who was one of the first to recognize Beckett's genius, this classic study of the novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett has been praised for its... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9955K Jens Andersen / Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life (Large Paperback) Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book writer, a passionate novelist, a deft paper... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press 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: €18.95 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 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: €27.95 Now: €27.00 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: BIG432 Stephen Gwynn - Oliver Goldsmith ( A Biography) - HB - 1937 ( Originally 1935) MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2944K Piers Dudgeon & Josephine Cox / Child of the North - Memoirs of a Northern Childhood (Coffee Table Book) Josephine Cox returns to the land of her birth, the environment which provides so many settings for her novels, and in the company of her fictional characters rediscovers the influences whiech define her as a writer. The author has talked at length... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2488K Kingsley Amis / Memoirs ( Hardback ) The renowned British author describes his youth, education at Oxford, career in the academic world, his decision to become a full-time writer, and encounters with such notables as Anthony Burgess, Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves, and Margaret... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2232K Charles J. Shields / Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (Hardback) "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the most widely read American novel ever. 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Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: €9.00 Add to Cart 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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When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press 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: €18.95 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 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: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... 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Quick view Details Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2944K Piers Dudgeon & Josephine Cox / Child of the North - Memoirs of a Northern Childhood (Coffee Table Book) Josephine Cox returns to the land of her birth, the environment which provides so many settings for her novels, and in the company of her fictional characters rediscovers the influences whiech define her as a writer. The author has talked at length... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2488K Kingsley Amis / Memoirs ( Hardback ) The renowned British author describes his youth, education at Oxford, career in the academic world, his decision to become a full-time writer, and encounters with such notables as Anthony Burgess, Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves, and Margaret... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2232K Charles J. Shields / Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (Hardback) "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the most widely read American novel ever. Yet its creator, Harper Lee, has become a mysterious figure who routinely turns away reporters. She has never been the subject of a book--until now. "Mockingbird" is a colorful... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10093K Vivian Mercier / Beckett/Beckett (Large Paperback) Beckett/Beckett: The Classic Study of a Modern Genius Written by an outstanding scholar and critic who was one of the first to recognize Beckett's genius, this classic study of the novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett has been praised for its... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9955K Jens Andersen / Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life (Large Paperback) Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book writer, a passionate novelist, a deft paper... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press 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: €18.95 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 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: €27.95 Now: €27.00 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW10643K Robert Polito / Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompson (Large Paperback) 'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony of guilt about his sheriff father's demise in an old people's home, inventing a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA2944K Piers Dudgeon & Josephine Cox / Child of the North - Memoirs of a Northern Childhood (Coffee Table Book) Josephine Cox returns to the land of her birth, the environment which provides so many settings for her novels, and in the company of her fictional characters rediscovers the influences whiech define her as a writer. The author has talked at length... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2488K Kingsley Amis / Memoirs ( Hardback ) The renowned British author describes his youth, education at Oxford, career in the academic world, his decision to become a full-time writer, and encounters with such notables as Anthony Burgess, Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves, and Margaret... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2232K Charles J. Shields / Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (Hardback) "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the most widely read American novel ever. Yet its creator, Harper Lee, has become a mysterious figure who routinely turns away reporters. She has never been the subject of a book--until now. "Mockingbird" is a colorful... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10093K Vivian Mercier / Beckett/Beckett (Large Paperback) Beckett/Beckett: The Classic Study of a Modern Genius Written by an outstanding scholar and critic who was one of the first to recognize Beckett's genius, this classic study of the novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett has been praised for its... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9955K Jens Andersen / Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life (Large Paperback) Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book writer, a passionate novelist, a deft paper... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press 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: €18.95 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 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: €27.95 Now: €27.00 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10093K Vivian Mercier / Beckett/Beckett (Large Paperback) Beckett/Beckett: The Classic Study of a Modern Genius Written by an outstanding scholar and critic who was one of the first to recognize Beckett's genius, this classic study of the novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett has been praised for its... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9955K Jens Andersen / Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life (Large Paperback) Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book writer, a passionate novelist, a deft paper... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. 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Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: €27.95 Now: €27.00 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW2488K Kingsley Amis / Memoirs ( Hardback ) The renowned British author describes his youth, education at Oxford, career in the academic world, his decision to become a full-time writer, and encounters with such notables as Anthony Burgess, Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves, and Margaret... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2232K Charles J. Shields / Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (Hardback) "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the most widely read American novel ever. Yet its creator, Harper Lee, has become a mysterious figure who routinely turns away reporters. She has never been the subject of a book--until now. "Mockingbird" is a colorful... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10093K Vivian Mercier / Beckett/Beckett (Large Paperback) Beckett/Beckett: The Classic Study of a Modern Genius Written by an outstanding scholar and critic who was one of the first to recognize Beckett's genius, this classic study of the novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett has been praised for its... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9955K Jens Andersen / Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life (Large Paperback) Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book writer, a passionate novelist, a deft paper... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press 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: €18.95 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 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: €27.95 Now: €27.00 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW2479K Zachary Leader / The Life of Kingsley Amis (Hardback) The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2232K Charles J. Shields / Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (Hardback) "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the most widely read American novel ever. Yet its creator, Harper Lee, has become a mysterious figure who routinely turns away reporters. She has never been the subject of a book--until now. "Mockingbird" is a colorful... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10093K Vivian Mercier / Beckett/Beckett (Large Paperback) Beckett/Beckett: The Classic Study of a Modern Genius Written by an outstanding scholar and critic who was one of the first to recognize Beckett's genius, this classic study of the novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett has been praised for its... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9955K Jens Andersen / Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life (Large Paperback) Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book writer, a passionate novelist, a deft paper... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press 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: €18.95 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 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: €27.95 Now: €27.00 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW2232K Charles J. Shields / Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (Hardback) "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the most widely read American novel ever. Yet its creator, Harper Lee, has become a mysterious figure who routinely turns away reporters. She has never been the subject of a book--until now. "Mockingbird" is a colorful... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10093K Vivian Mercier / Beckett/Beckett (Large Paperback) Beckett/Beckett: The Classic Study of a Modern Genius Written by an outstanding scholar and critic who was one of the first to recognize Beckett's genius, this classic study of the novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett has been praised for its... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9955K Jens Andersen / Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life (Large Paperback) Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book writer, a passionate novelist, a deft paper... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW2097K Alan Kaufman / Jew Boy: A Memoir (Hardback) Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW10093K Vivian Mercier / Beckett/Beckett (Large Paperback) Beckett/Beckett: The Classic Study of a Modern Genius Written by an outstanding scholar and critic who was one of the first to recognize Beckett's genius, this classic study of the novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett has been praised for its... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9955K Jens Andersen / Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life (Large Paperback) Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book writer, a passionate novelist, a deft paper... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press 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: €18.95 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 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: €27.95 Now: €27.00 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW10093K Vivian Mercier / Beckett/Beckett (Large Paperback) Beckett/Beckett: The Classic Study of a Modern Genius Written by an outstanding scholar and critic who was one of the first to recognize Beckett's genius, this classic study of the novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett has been praised for its... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9955K Jens Andersen / Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life (Large Paperback) Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book writer, a passionate novelist, a deft paper... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press 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: €18.95 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 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: €27.95 Now: €27.00 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW9955K Jens Andersen / Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life (Large Paperback) Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book writer, a passionate novelist, a deft paper... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press 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: €18.95 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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... 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Quick view sku: wW9796K Cyril Connolly / Enemies of Promise (Large Paperback) “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise , an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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... 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Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... 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Closed tear to edge of back cover. spine uncreased. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 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: €27.95 Now: €27.00 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW1807K David Ross / W.B. Yeats (Hardback) This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain... MSRP: Now: €4.50 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: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press 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: €18.95 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 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: €27.95 Now: €27.00 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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: €9.00 Add to Cart 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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press 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: €18.95 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 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: €27.95 Now: €27.00 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: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73561K Lorenza Foschini / Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man, he frequented the antiquarian bookshops of Paris in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73144K Sven Birkerts / The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89731K Anne Chisholm / Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (Hardback) Through conversations with Rumer Godden herself and from her exclusive access to private letters, Anne Chisholm has written the definitive biography (for adults and young adults) of this cherished author who died in 1998. From her idyllic childhood in... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: X99412K John Frayn Turner / Rupert Brooke - The Splendour and the Pain (Hardback ) Here within these pages, and probably for the first time is the real Rupert Brooke: his loves and his poems, the emotional essence of the splendour and pain in a brilliant yet brief lifetime. John Frayn Turner, a prolific writer who has authored over... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99385K Liz Rosenberg / House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery (Large Paperback) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.Once upon a time, there was a girl... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 89091K Diana Athill / After a Funeral This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi moved into her flat, they shared housework and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X99249K W.J. McCormack / Sheridan Le Fanu (Large Paperback) A fresh new reassessment of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73), one of the bestselling Irish novelists of the mid-Victorian period, who is recognized today for his ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, including In a Glass Darkly and The... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press 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: €18.95 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98489K Gretchen Gerzina / Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington 1893 - 1932 (Large Paperback) Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 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: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X98053K Kevin Kiely / Francis Stuart: Artist and Outcast (Large Paperback) In this compelling and highly readable biography, Kiely considers the philosophical and literary beliefs of one of Ireland's most controversial figures. It recounts the writer's fascinating his father's suicide when Stuart was an infant; his marriage... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart 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: Now: €3.50 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: €27.95 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG452 Elizabeth Coxhead - Lady Gregory : A Literary Portrait - HB - 1961 A first edition, published by Macmillan UK, 1961, lacking the original dustjacket. Asolid coipy in red/maroon cloth withtitles in gilt on black panel to spine. Illustrated. Augusta Gregory was a cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival. Her books... 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