Six Poets Hardy To Larkin
£9.99Alan Bennett’s selection of English verse by his favourite poets, accompanied by his own enlivening commentary.
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Ted Hughes The Unauthorised Life
£30.00SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
‘Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. It will be the standard biography of Hughes for a long time to come’Sunday Times
‘Captures the great poet in all his wild complexity. Powerful and clarifying, richly layered and compelling’ Melvyn Bragg, Observer
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Coco Chanel
£12.00This beautifully illustrated biography follows Coco Chanel’s exceptional life and work, and celebrates the fashion icon’s immense legacy.
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Last Love Song
£25.00Tracy Daugherty takes readers on a journey back through time, following a young Didion in Sacramento, through to her adult life as a writer interviewing those who know and knew her personally, while maintaining a respectful distance from the reclusive literary great.
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Every Time A Friend Succeeds Something
£25.00An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century.
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House In St Johns Wood
£25.00An intimate portrait of Stephen Spender’s extraordinary life written by his son, Matthew Spender, with new insights drawn from personal recollections and unpublished archives.
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Latest Readings
£12.99In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that ‘if you don’t know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do,’ James moved his library to his house in Cambridge, where he would ‘live, read, and perhaps even write.’ James is the award-winning author of dozens of works of literary criticism, poetry, and history, and this volume contains his reflections on what may well be his last reading list. A look at some of James’s old favorites as well as some of his recent discoveries, this book also offers a revealing look at the author himself, sharing his evocative musings on literature and family, and on living and dying.
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Jane Austen
£12.00Jane Austen is part of the Life Portraits series which offers a lavishly illustrated, potted biography of iconic creative figures, introducing audiences to the life, times and inspirations of their favourite authors and artists.
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Virginia Woolf
£12.00Virginia Woolf is part of the Life Portraits series which offers a lavishly illustrated, potted biography of iconic creative figures, introducing audiences to the life, times and inspirations of their favourite authors and artists.
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Story Of Alice
£25.00Drawing on previously unpublished material, ‘The Story of Alice’ illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books, examining the peculiar friendship between Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson, Lewis Carroll, and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. It analyses how their relationship influenced the creation of Wonderland, how the two Alice books took on an unstoppable cultural momentum in the Victorian era, and why 150 years later they continue to enthrall and delight us.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview
£12.99Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez was one of the most widely translated writers of his time, and yet there were many sides of him that English language readers do not know. This volume includes the first ever English translation of Márquez’s final conversation, along with other rare and never-before-translated interviews from throughout his long career. Márquez discusses his varied literary work and his controversial politics, and what emerges is a richer, deeper, more intimate portrait of this great writer than we’ve encountered before.
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Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer
£16.99In 2012, the world arrived in London for the Olympics and Ann Morgan went out to meet it. She read her way around all the globe’s 196 independent countries (plus one extra), sampling one book from every nation – from classics and folk tales to current favourites and commercial triumphs, via novels, short stories, memoirs, biographies, narrative poems and countless mixtures of all these things. Her literary adventures shed light on the issues that affect us all: personal, political, national and global. What is cultural heritage? How do we define national identity? Is it possible to overcome censorship and propaganda? And how can we celebrate, challenge and change our remarkable world?