Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

  • Man With The Golden Typewriter

    £25.00

    Correspondence to and from the writer of the James Bond novels, Ian Fleming.

  • Life Of Saul Bellow

    £35.00

    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.

  • Vita

    £25.00

    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 A Life

    £20.00

    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.

  • George Orwell English Rebel

    £25.00

    A journey through the life and thought of George Orwell, from public school satirist and imperial policeman to Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four.

  • Sensation Double Life Of Wilkie Collins

    £20.00

    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.

  • Wests World Life & Times Of Rebecca West

    £25.00

    The definitive biography of one of the great British literary figures of the twentieth century: Dame Rebecca West.

  • Both Flesh & Not

    £20.00

    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.

  • Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story

    £20.00

    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.

  • Georgette Heyer Biography

    £20.00

    Engaging, authoritative and meticulously researched, this book offers a comprehensive insight into the life and writing of Georgette Heyer, a remarkable and ferociously private woman.

  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Run

    £9.99

    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.

  • Simone de Beauvoir (Life & Times)

    £9.99

    Simone de Beauvoir was a brilliant scholar & novelist, leading member of the existentialist movement & a committed socialist & feminist. Raised in a very respectable environment, as a young woman she rejected her parents’ values & embarked on a literary career. Her philosophy & views are as relevant today as during her lifetime.

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