Selected Letters of E. M. Forster Volume One 1879-1920 and Volume Two 1921-1970 by E. M. Forster; Mary Lago; P. N. Furbank
$35.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Roald Dahl - Going Solo by Roald Dahl
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
'They didn't think for one moment that they would find anything but a burnt-out fuselage and a charred skeleton; and they were apparently astounded whn they came upon my still-breathing body, lying in the sand near by' In 1938 Roald Dahl was fresh out of school and bound for his first job in Africa, hop ...Show more
Charles Dickens : A Life by Claire Tomalin
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the Artful Dodger, Mr Pick ...Show more
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Peter Ackroyd creates Dickens as the consummate artist & entertainer, a man whose public persona gave little hint of the darkness of his private life.
John Betjeman - New Fame, New Love, Volume 2 of Biography by Bevis Hillier
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
This volume deals with Betjeman's zenith years. Now he wins fame not just for his poems but as a tastemaker opening eyes to the Victorian ages, as a battling conservationist and as a television personality, one of the Old Masters of a new medium. The book opens with the Betjemans' stormy married life (t ...Show more
Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life by GORDON
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
The] contradictions in Bronte] s] life are not only fully chronicled by Lyndall Gordon s splendid new biography, but also gracefully explicated to give the reader a vivid and emotionally detailed portrait of the novelist and her work. . . . Gordon] chooses to use her imaginative sympathies honed to prec ...Show more
Bellow: A Biography by ATLAS JAMES
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
With this masterly and original work, Bellow: A Biography, National Book Award nominee James Atlas gives the first definitive account of the Nobel Prize-winning author's turbulent personal and professional life, as it unfolded against the background of twentieth-century events--the Depression, World War ...Show more
Backing into the Limelight: The Biography of Alan Bennett by A. L. Gameson; Alexander Games
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Alan Bennett is one of Britain's most successful and popular living writers. He is also one of the last survivors of a generation of rule-breakers and radicals that first found its voice with Beyond the Fringe in 1961. Since then, he has gone on to huge success with his plays (Kafka's Dick, and An Engli ...Show more
To Bed at Noon: The Life and Art of Maurice Duggan by Ian Richards
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
This volume examines the life and work of New Zealand author Maurice Duggan. His life was turbulent and difficult as he suffered from a "black Irish" personality, the lifelong trauma of an amputated leg, and battles with alcoholism, relationships and employment.
The Quick World - Autobiography Volume 3 by Lauris Edmond
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
The Envoy from Mirror City - An Autobiography Volume Three
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature
The Envoy from Mirror City is the third book of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, described by Michael Holroyd as 'one of the greatest autobiographies written this century.' It describes her travels overseas and entry into the saving world of writers and the 'Mirror City' that sustains them. Fir ...Show more
A History of Silence - A Memoir by Lloyd Jones
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
The 2011 earthquake which shook Christchurch to its core led Lloyd Jones to investigate his own foundations and family past. And so begins a quest to revisit what has been buried by a legacy of silence. Piecing together his own memories with clues of what has been deliberately forgotten by his parents, ...Show more