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A Sort of Life
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Graham Greene |
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie |
Peopled with such literary figures as Tennyson, Trollope, Browning, George Eliot, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, this book provides Anne Thackeray Ritchie's complete journals written in 1864–65 and… |
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The herring-seller's apprentice
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L. C. Tyler |
A darkly subversive take on the detective novel, peopled by a memorable cast of eccentrics. |
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Stand Up, Mr. Dickens
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Charles Dickens,Edward Blishen |
Extracts from Dickens' stories, with biographical commentary |
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Lord Berners
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Peter Dickinson |
"Lord Berners (1883-1950) was one of the most idiosyncratic and fascinating personalities in England during the 1920s and 30s. The interviews in this book come from some of the leading figures of tha… |
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Agatha Christie
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Mark Campbell |
Since her debut in 1920 with The Mysterious Affair At Styles, Agatha Christie has become the chief proponent of the English village murder mystery. Although she created two enormously popular charact… |
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The Dahlmanac
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Kay Woodward |
"With letters and observations by the author himself about everything under the sun - from what he got up to as a boy and the best time of the year for conkers, to why he hated Christmas, this title … |
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Charles Dickens and the street children of London
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Andrea Warren |
Warren takes you on a journey into the workhouses, slums, factories, and schools of Victorian England, and into the world of Dickens. She shows now he used his pen to do battle on behalf of the poor,… |
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Virginia Woolf
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Alexandra Harris |
Deze biografie vertelt hoe een gedreven jonge vrouw, met haar onafscheidelijke notitieboekje, een van de grootste schrijvers uit de wereldliteratuur werd. Het is een verhaal dat bruist van vriendscha… |
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The ingredients of love
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Nicolas Barreau |
"A charming restaurant A book and its mysterious author A little secret A romantic meeting Paris and all its magic. Cyrano de Bergerac meets Chocolat and Amelie in this intelligent, charming, and ent… |
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Love's civil war
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Elizabeth Bowen |
The love affair between writer Elizabeth Bowen & Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie blossomed after their first meeting in 1941 & continued over the next 30 years until Bowen's death in 1973. When Rit… |
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A Prison Diary
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Jeffrey Archer,FF 8282 |
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Jane Austen
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Carol Shields |
With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the p… |
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Mad world
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Paula Byrne |
A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England's greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most signific… |
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Wodehouse
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Robert McCrum |
Many consider him the most brilliant comic writer of the twentieth century. He wrote ninety novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blan… |
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Testament of friendship
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Vera Brittain |
In her famous volume of autobiography, *Testament of Youth*, now an acclaimed BBC/PBS television serial, Vera Brittain passionately recorded the agonizing years of the First World War, lamenting the … |
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Oleander, Jacaranda
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Penelope Lively |
A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, Oleander, Jacaranda evokes the author's unusual childhood growing up English in Egypt during the 1930s… |
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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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My secret diary
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Jacqueline Wilson |
A wonderfully written and engaging teenage memoir: read all about Jacqueline's problems with her family, her first love, her school life and her friends. Read extracts from her real diaries and the s… |
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Ammonites and leaping fish
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Penelope Lively |
"Sharp, unsentimental and ruefully funny. A fascinating portrait not only of Lively but of the times through which she has lived". (Daily Telegraph). "Clever and poignant ...there is much to enjoy. T… |
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