\nThe prize-winning biography of Wordsworth\'s beloved sister, champion, muse who was at the heart of the Romantic movement…

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The elegant and insightful memoir from the bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Find Me and The Gentleman From Peru.…

For 6,557 miles, from New York to Mississippi to Seattle, Chuck Klosterman decided to chase rock n roll and death across a…

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He is a poet who links his compromised life and self to history, politics and the public sphere.' TLS'So What energetically…

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In 1956 Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother, Aurelia Plath: 'I feel I'm developing a kind of primitive style of my own which I…

Presents the history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes, but the course…

His wife was restless and jealous. Outside of the villa, Mexican communists tried to storm the house, the Trotskys' sons…

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\nAn intimate and original memoir of grief and male friendship by one of Scotland\'s brightest young talents. \'With a…

William Mann charts the journey by which Kathy Hepburn of Hartford, Connecticut, became the star who dazzled audiences for…

'Fascinating . In Nelson, Andrew Lambert - described by David Cannadine as 'the outstanding British naval historian of his…

'Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.'…

The hugely acclaimed, best-selling life of Hawkwood, one of the outstanding figures of English and European history. John…

Frost returned to the safety of New England while Thomas stayed to fight for the Old. It is these roads taken - and those…

Tells the story of the farmer's son from Tyneside who revolutionised wood-engraving and influenced book illustration for a…

In 1797, Lucia, a beautiful statesman's daughter was married off to a powerful Venetian, only to be caught up in the…

Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the…

\nBlazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm) and…

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Presents exact and complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Sylvia Plath for the last twelve years of her life -…

William Beckford had two lives: one real and sensational, the other an elegant forgery he invented in retirement after the…

Eliot - and of its author, a formidable woman sidelined by literary history. 'Heartbreaking and wonderfully told.' Susan…

\nTravels Over Feeling is the result of extensive research by author Richard King, curating the ephemera and documentation…

At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and…

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\nThe definitive story of Anna May Wong, the first East-Asian Hollywood star, and how she blazed a trail for the Chinese…

\nRichard Brody\'s Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard is a landmark biography of one of the great…

Covers the period from T S Eliot's childhood in St Louis, Missouri, to the end of 1922, by which time he had settled in…

\nOf the twenty chapters that make up these Memoirs, seventeen appear here in print for the first time, unearthed by the…

\nThe letters provide us with an intimate, multi-layered understanding of this extraordinarypoet\'s life and mind.\n…

\nThis selection of correspondence presents, for the first time, the private life and reflections of a maverick figure in…

\nAuden, George Barker, William Empson, Geoffrey Faber, John Hayward, James Laughlin, Hope Mirrlees, Mervyn Peake, Ezra…