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Angela Carter’s life was as rich with incident, as vigorously modern, as unconventional, as dark and ultimately as tragic as anything in her fiction. A writer of extraordinary inventiveness and range, her work stands out from the great mass of modern English fiction for its bawdiness, linguistic zest and its hospitality to the fantastic and the absurd. This is the first full biography of one of the greatest English writers of the twentieth century.
A selection of Iris Murdoch’s most interesting and important letters has been collected together to give us a full, living portrait of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers and thinkers. The letters show a great mind at work – we see the young Murdoch struggling with difficult philosophical issues, often unsure of herself intellectually; we witness her anguish as a mature writer when a novel won’t come together; we see her reflecting on the intricacies of human relationships; we see her fulminating about world events and exploring spirituality. They also reveal her personal life, the subject of much speculation, in all its complexity: her sharp sense of humour, her irreverence, her emotional hunger and her tendency to live on the edge of what was socially acceptable.
Charlotte Bronte’s life contained all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. She was raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors and sent away to brutally strict boarding school at a young age. She watched helpless growing up as, one by one, her five beloved siblings sickened and died; by the end of her short life, she was the only child of the Brontë clan remaining. And most fascinating and tragic of all, throughout her adult life she was haunted by a great and unrequited love – a love that tortured Charlotte but also inspired some of the most moving, intense and revolutionary novels ever written in the English language. Charlotte was a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force behind the whole Brontë family.
Correspondence to and from the writer of the James Bond novels, Ian Fleming.
2015 will mark the centenary of Saul Bellow’s birth as well as the 10th anniversary of his death. ‘The Life of Saul Bellow’ by Zachary Leader is the first biography since the author’s death and the first to discuss his life and work in its entirety. Leader has been granted unprecedented access to Bellow’s papers, including much previously restricted material and has conducted interviews with Bellow’s relatives, close friends, colleagues and lovers. The first volume spans the period from Bellow’s birth in 1915 in Lachine, Canada, to the publication of ‘Herzog’ in 1964.
Aristocrat, literary celebrity, ‘Rose Queen’, devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast – Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography.
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. Loved and admired, and increasingly recognised as one of the outstanding novelists of her time, she remains, also, mysterious and intriguing. This biography – by a biographer whom Fitzgerald herself admired – pursues her life, her writing, and her secret self, with fascinated interest.
A journey through the life and thought of George Orwell, from public school satirist and imperial policeman to Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four.
A biography of William Wilkie Collins, English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He was very popular during the Victorian era and wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and more than 100 nonfiction essays.
The definitive biography of one of the great British literary figures of the twentieth century: Dame Rebecca West.
David Foster Wallace was heralded by critics and fans as the voice of a generation. This book collects together 15 of Wallace’s essays, from ‘Federer Both Flesh and Not’, considered by many to be his non-fiction masterpiece, to ‘The (As it Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2’, his deft dissection of James Cameron’s blockbuster.
This is a portrait of the life, work and death of David Foster Wallace, the American writer who inspired a generation before tragically committing suicide in 2008 after a case of severe depression.
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