Virginia Woolf - A Writer's Life by Lyndall Gordon
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Only writing, Virginia Woolf said, could compose 'the synthesis of my being'. Lyndall Gordon reveals an explorer of 'the infinite oddity of the human position' and, specifically, the more hidden problems and possibilities of women.
Telling Tales by Alan Bennett
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
"To be brought up in Leeds in the forties was to learn early on the quite useful lesson that life is generally something that happens elsewhere." In this delightful collection of reminiscences, Alan Bennett recalls his early years in a sequence of tales that are funny, touching and written in his unique ...Show more
Discomfort Zone - A personal history by Jonathan Franzen
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. 'The Discomfort Zone' is his intimate memoir of his growth from a 'small and fundamentally ridiculous person' through an adolescence ...Show more
A Woman's Education by Jill Ker Conway
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good
Home-educated and outback-raised, Jill Kerr Conway was told she could never achieve academically. She went on to get a PhD from Harvard, write best-sellers and work as president of America
College of One - The Story of How F. Scott Fitzgerald Educated the Woman He Loved by Sheilah Graham
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
In 1937, on the night of her engagement to the Marquess of Donegall, Sheilah Graham met F. Scott Fitzgerald at a party in Hollywood. Graham, a British-born journalist, broke off her engagement and the two writers lived the fervid, sometimes violent affair that is memorialised here with unprecedented int ...Show more
Roald Dahl - A biography by Jeremy Treglown
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad by John Stape
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
When he died in 1924, Virginia Woolf wrote of Joseph Conrad, 'Suddenly, our guest has left us...There was always an air of mystery around him.' Never quite an Englishman, Conrad is depicted in this authoritative new biography as a man who consistently reinvented himself, transforming fiction into life a ...Show more
Marcel Proust - A Biography by George D Painter
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Dream Catcher - A Memoir by Margaret A Salinger
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
American Bloomsbury - Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work by Susan Cheever
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Even the most devoted readers of nineteenth-century American literature often assume that the men and women behind the masterpieces were as dull and staid as the era's static daguerreotypes. Susan Cheever's latest work, however, brings new life to the well-known literary personages who produced such che ...Show more