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Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
By Harriet Baker (Author)Format: Hardback 384 pagesPublisher: Penguin Books LtdImprint: Allen LaneISBN: 9780241540510Published: 4 Apr 2024Weight: 592gDimensions: 241 x 160 x 30 (mm) In Rural Hours, Harriet Baker tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the countryside and...- £25.00
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The Swimmer : The Wild Life of Roger Deakin
By: Patrick BarkhamBinding: HardbackThe definitive biography of beloved author, Roger DeakinRoger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously - and...- £20.00
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Sylvia Pankhurst : Natural Born Rebel
By: Rachel HolmesBinding: Paperback / softback'A wonderful book ... Holmes sublimely illuminates Sylvia's extraordinary life' The Times'A masterpiece' Vanessa Redgrave _______________Born into one of Britain's most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel. A free spirit and radical visionary, history placed her...- £16.99
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The Devil in the Kitchen : The Autobiography
Format: Paperback / softback 336 pages, 22Publisher: Orion Publishing CoImprint: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group LtISBN: 9780752881614Published: 22 Aug 2007Weight: 244gDimensions:198 x 130 x 22 (mm) The autobiography of the archetypal kitchen bad boy - Marco Pierre White. When Marco Pierre...- £10.99
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The Invention of Nature : The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner
By: Andrea WulfBinding: Paperback / softbackWINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016'A thrilling adventure story' Bill Bryson'Dazzling' Literary Review 'Brilliant' Sunday Express'Extraordinary and gripping' New Scientist'A superb biography' The Economist'An exhilarating armchair voyage' GILES MILTON, Mail...- £12.99
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Boy in a China Shop : Life, Clay and Everything
By: Keith Brymer JonesBinding: Paperback / softback'During downtime on the pottery throwdown Keith made my hair curl with some of his tales - he's a great raconteur and recounts his story in this book as he does in real life - with joy, charm...- £10.99
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On a Farther Shore : The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring
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Orwell : The New Life
By: D.J. TaylorBinding: HardbackOver seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together sold over 40 million copies. Even now,...- £30.00
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Unbowed : My Autobiography
By: Wangari MaathaiBinding: Paperback / softbackBorn in a rural Kenyan village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most African girls then were uneducated. In her remarkable and inspiring autobiography, she tells of...- £10.99
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows : Two lives, one nation and a century of art under tyranny in China
By: Ai WeiweiBinding: Paperback / softbackA FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION. Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of...- £10.99
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Jo van Gogh-Bonger : The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous
By: Hans (The Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands) Luijten, Lynne RichardsBinding: HardbackIt is so good, after so many years of public indifference, even hostility towards Vincent and his work, to feel towards the end of my life that the battle is won.' JO VAN GOGH-BONGER...- £20.00
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Sleeping on Islands : A Life in Poetry
By: Sir Andrew MotionBinding: HardbackAndrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes us from scenes of a teenage home-life coloured by tragedy...- £20.00
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William Blake vs the World
By: John HiggsBinding: Paperback / softback'Fascinating' The Times'Blakeian in its singularity' New Statesman'A wonderful adventure' Irish Times'Rich, complex and original' Tom Holland'A crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction' Times Literary SupplementPoet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William Blake...- £10.99
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Free : Coming of Age at the End of History
By: Lea YpiBinding: Paperback / softbackTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be hooked' Laura Hackett, Sunday Times, Best Summer Books'Wonderfully funny and poignant. ....- £10.99
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An Autobiography
Format: Paperback / softback 464 pagesPublisher: Penguin Books LtdImprint: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241994573Published: 4 May 2023Classifications: Autobiography: historical, political & military, Feminism & feminist theory, Comparative politics, Political activismWeight :322g 'Riveting; as fresh and relevant today as it was almost 50 years ago. The...- £10.99
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Black Spartacus : The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
By: Sudhir HazareesinghBinding: Paperback / softbackThe definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint LouvertureThe Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later...- £10.99
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Barbara Hepworth : Art & Life
By: Eleanor Clayton, Ali SmithBinding: HardbackBarbara Hepworth is one of the most important artists of the 20th century, yet she has been the subject of relatively few monographs in comparison to her male counterparts. This biography moves beyond the traditional narratives of modernism, truth...- £25.00
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The Hare With Amber Eyes : The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
By: Edmund de WaalBinding: Paperback / softback**WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**Edmund de Waal uncovers the history of a family through a turbulent century through 264 objects. 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced...- £10.99
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Speak, Memory : An Autobiography Revisited
By: Vladimir NabokovBinding: Paperback / softback'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family...- £9.99
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Joan of Arc
By: Helen CastorBinding: Paperback / softbackThe story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it beforeA French peasant girl who heard voices from God, Joan convinced the royal court of her divine calling and became...- £12.99
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Frida : The Biography of Frida Kahlo
Format: Paperback / softback 528 pagesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCImprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781526605313Published: 28 Jun 2018Classifications: Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Biography: arts & entertainmentWeight: 442g Frida is the story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary women, the...- £16.99
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Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
By: Jung ChangBinding: Paperback / softbackIntroducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. Few books have had such...- £9.99
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In the Wars : An uplifting, life-enhancing autobiography, a poignant story of the power of resilience
By: Dr Waheed ArianBinding: Paperback / softbackAS HEARD ON DESERT ISLAND DISCSA WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR'A riveting story of loss, exile, and rebirth.' KHALED HOSSEINI, author of The Kite Runner'One of the most incredible life stories you will ever hear.' JAMES O'BRIEN'A remarkable...- £10.99
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King : The Life of Martin Luther King
By: Jonathan EigBinding: HardbackA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERVividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. - and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory...- £25.00
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
By: James Agee, Walker Evans, Blake MorrisonBinding: Paperback / softbackIn the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed...- £14.99
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Down in the Valley : A Writer's Landscape
By: Laurie LeeBinding: Paperback / softbackA moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie 'Before I left the valley I thought everywhere was like this. Then I went away for 40 years and...- £8.99
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Home in the World : A Memoir
By: Amartya, FBA SenBinding: Paperback / softbackThe extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectualsWhere is 'home'? For Amartya Sen, home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh, the little university town of Santiniketan, where...- £12.99
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William Morris: A Life for Our Time
By: Fiona MacCarthyBinding: Paperback / softbackWinner of the Wolfson History Prize, and described by A.S.Byatt as 'one of the finest biographies ever published', this is Fiona MacCarthy's magisterial biography of William Morris, legendary designer and father of the Victorian Arts and Crafts movement. 'Thrilling,...- £40.00
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The Flame Trees Of Thika : Memories of an African Childhood
By: Elspeth HuxleyBinding: Paperback / softbackWhen Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat. What...- £10.99
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The Dead Are Arising : Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
By: Les Payne, Tamara PayneBinding: Paperback / softback**WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY****WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)**Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown AwardFinalist, LA Times Book PrizeA landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelling figures, rewriting much of the...- £12.99
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