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Sherlock Holmes in Birmingham
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Paul Lester |
As Lester shows, Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, had reason to know the Birmingham area well. The period Conan Doyle worked for a popular doctor in Aston was important in his … |
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A Sort of Life
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Graham Greene |
160p |
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The history of Henry Fielding
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Wilbur Lucius Cross |
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The Brideshead Generation
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Humphrey Carpenter |
Biographical and literary study. Oxford in the 1920s and Waugh's life afterwards. |
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Hazlitt
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R. L. Brett |
40 p. : 22 cm |
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The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolfe
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Vita Sackville-West,Virginia Woolf,Alison Bechdel |
After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West, a British novelist married to foreign diplomat Harold Nicolson, and Virginia Woolf began a passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf’s death in 1941… |
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You've Had Your Time
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Anthony Burgess |
The second volume of the two-volume autobiography.
The narrative begins in 1959, with the author’s return from Brunei and the start of a professional writing career and ends in 1982 with the cente… |
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Blue remembered hills a recollection
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Rosemary Sutcliff |
The well-known author of historical novels for young people describes her childhood and youth and her struggles with the devastating effects of rheumatoid arthritis. |
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Glimpses of glory
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Richard L. Greaves |
"This is a reinterpretation of John Bunyan, a prolific author best known for his two allegories, The Pilgrim's Progress and The Holy War, and his spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding. In this boo… |
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Father figure
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Nichols, Beverley |
If your previous experience with Beverly Nichols has been the books of his funny, warm and affectionate gardening trilogy (Down the Garden Path, Sunlight on the Lawn, etc), *caveat lector.* This is … |
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George Orwell
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Kevin A. Boon |
"A biography of writer George Orwell that describes his era, his major works--the novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four--his life, and the legacy of his writing"--Provided by publisher. |
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Myth maker
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Anne E. Neimark,Anne Neimark |
Follows the life and work of the renowned fantasy writer, creator of hobbits and Middle Earth and "The Lord of the Rings." |
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Vindication
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Lyndall Gordon |
The founder of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the most famous woman of her era. A brilliant, unconventional rebel vilified for her strikingly modern notions of education, family… |
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Somerset Maugham
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Jeffrey Meyers |
An instinctive and magnificent storyteller, Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular and successful writers of his time. He published seventy-eight books -- including the undisputed classics Of H… |
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The trials of Radclyffe Hall
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Diana Souhami |
This is a biography of Radclyffe Hall, one of England nost eccentric contemporaywomen. She is also the quintissential gay and lesbian icon. The book spans her whole life from her unhappy childhood to… |
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The play's the thing
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Ruth Turk |
Traces the life of the famous English writer, from his childhood and schooling in Stratford-on-Avon, through his successful career as actor and playwright in London, to his death in 1616. |
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The Six
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Laura Thompson |
388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 21 cm |
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Roald Dahl
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Chris Powling |
its about all books which are written by roald dahl |
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Thomas Hardy
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Claire Tomalin |
Whitbread Award winner Claire Tomalin's seminal biography of the enigmatic novelist and poet Thomas Hardy.Today Thomas Hardy is best known for creating the great Wessex landscape as the backdrop to h… |
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H.G. Wells, first citizen of the future
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Keith Ferrell |
A biography of the famous English author who wrote more than 100 books on a wide range of subjects. |
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