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This, the second volume of Susan Sontag’s journals, begins in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents her evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned critic and dominant force in the world of ideas with the publication of ‘Against Interpretation’ in 1966.
This book is the story of a life’s work to find happiness. It is the story of how the painful past Jeanette Winterson thought she had written over and repainted returned to haunt her later life, and sent her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her real mother.
Christopher Hitchens traces his journey from a Portsmouth military family to Balliol College, and a career as a public intellectual, wit and controversialist. He provides vivid accounts of his friendships and famous feuds, as well as his attacks on Mother Teresa and the Almighty Himself.
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of races, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and on his writing.
From one of America’s iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life – in good times and bad – that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion.
A candid and revealing memoir from Elizabeth Jane Howard, the bestselling and lauded author of the Cazalet Chronicles and one of twentieth century Britain’s greatest storytellers.
This is a vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belonging to a now distant past.
Hemingway’s memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. He recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation.
‘Goodbye to all That’ is Robert Graves’ marvellously candid self-portrait of his childhood and his experiences as a young officer in the First World War.
In this, the first volume of her autobiography, writer and poet Maya Angelou reflects on her childhood spent growing up in the American South of the 1930s. There she learned the power of the white townsfolk and suffered the trauma of rape.
Haute bohemians
1 × £65.00 The Year of Magical Thinking
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