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Written in her nineties, when she was free from any inhibitions she may have once had, Diana Athill reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age can bring, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. Lively, fearless and humorous, ‘Somewhere Towards the End’ encapsulates the vibrant final decades of Athill’s life. Filled with events, love and friendships, this is a memoir about maintaining hope, joy and vigour in later life, resisting regret, and questioning the beliefs and customs of your own generation.
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Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield’s centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality.
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Jenny Windell is obsessed with murder mysteries, so when she discovers her aunt dead at her country home, the stage is set for her own investigation. On the run, she befriends Derek Fenton, persuading him to join her in her attempts to solve the crime.
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Happy with each other, Reginald and Sylvia think they just want the quiet life. But when success overtakes them, and the draw of the city, they find parts of themselves they never knew. Where does their happiness really lie?
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1000-PIECE PUZZLE that makes a perfect gift for fans of Virginia Woolf and her work.INCLUDES A PULL-OUT POSTER so you can spot all the characters and read their stories.’THE WORLD OF…’ JIGSAWS are a fun way of celebrating the lives and works of creative greats. Also available in the series: The World of Frida Kahlo, The World of Jane Austen, The World of the Brontës, The World of James Joyce and more.SCREEN-FREE FUN from one of the world’s leading publishers of books and gifts on the creative artsA GOOD-SIZED PUZZLE that measures 48.5 x 68 cm (19 x 27 in.) when completed. Piece together the world of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, finding a host of famous characters both real and fictional along the way. From the beaches of Cornwall to the streets of Bloomsbury and from Hogarth House to the colleges of Cambridge, spot Leonard Woolf, Clive and Vanessa Bell and Vita Sackville-West, along with Clarissa Dalloway, Orlando and the
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A farewell to Eastern Europe and its vanishing culture.
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Oscar Wilde’s early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met. He was celebrated – or mocked – as the master of the ingenious epigram, the provocative paradox, the witty aside or the extravagant conceit. In researching his monumental biography of Wilde Matthew Sturgis found, in every major archive, sheets of foolscap in Wilde’s distinctive handwriting, setting down a series of unfamiliar epigrams – unpublished try-outs. There were fascinating new discoveries. The items in this volume are all small additions to the Wilde story: some unfamiliar, others unexpected, they enrich and alter the picture of his life.
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An examination of Gone With the Wind, the myth of the Lost Cause and what they can tell us about American history and culture today.
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To celebrate the centenary of Ulysses‘s publication, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers each respond to an episode of James Joyce’s classic modernist novel.
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Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. A generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject matter and style, challenging the Establishment writers of the 1950s. It began with two names – Martin Amis and Ian McEwan – and became a flood: Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Graham Swift, Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson and Pat Barker among them. Suddenly, authors of serious fiction were like rock stars, fashionable, sexy creatures, shrewdly marketed and feted in public. The yearly bunfight of the Booker Prize became a matter of keen public interest. Tim Waterstone established the first of a chain of revolutionary bookshops. Through this exciting, hectic period, the journalist and author John Walsh played many parts: literary editor, reviewer, interviewer, prize judge and TV pundit. In this book, he reports on what he found.
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This book tells the story of what it means to be old: how the pleasure of sex ebbs, how the joy of gardening grows, how much there is to remember, to forget, to regret, to forgive – and how one faces the inevitable fact of death.
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From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to the serious ill health that dominated his twenties and thirties, his complicated marriages, and love affair with socialism, the first forty years of H.G. Wells’ extraordinary life would set him on a path to become one of the world’s most influential writers. The sudden success of The Time Machine and The War of The Worlds transformed his life and catapulted him to international fame; he became the writer who most inspired Orwell and countless others, and predicted men walking on the moon seventy years before it happened. In this biography, Claire Tomalin paints a fascinating portrait of a man like no other, driven by curiosity and desiring reform, a socialist and a futurist whose new and imaginative worlds continue to inspire today.
