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Author
Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
With four million copies of her books sold each year, Agatha Christie is the world's best known & best-selling crime writer. In this investigation into her life & work, Laura Thompson turns detective to unravel Christie's fiction & uncover the truth behind her private life.
Author
Publisher
Allen Lane
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed nature writer whose books include }Flora Britannica{ and }Nature Cure{, this is a biography of Flora Thompson, who wrote the }Lark Rise To Candleford{ books, which inspired the TV series. Retraces her life from a post office clerk who left school at 14 to sophisticated professional writer.
Author
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
John Murray
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Jane Howard wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to fiction. Artemis Cooper's biography explores a woman trying to make sense of her life through her writing, as well as illuminating the literary world in which she lived.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A biography of the much-loved English novelist, who died in 2010, from her private secretary. Provides a personal insight into a fascinating literary life, and draws on a mass of unpublished letters and diaries to reveal the real woman behind the popular image.
Author
Publisher
Fig Tree
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Taking in old age, the context of one's life and times, memory, reading and writing, and the identifying cargo of possessions - two ammonites, a cat, a pair of American ducks and a leaping fish sherd, amongst others - this is an elegant, moving and deeply enjoyable memoir by one of our most loved writers.
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
[New edition].
Language
English
Description
'Three-A-Penny' describes what it is like to be a woman in a man's world - about the ups and downs of earning a living as a writer in the 1920s and 30s. Lucy Malleson wrote over 70 crime novels and was part of what is often referred to as the Golden Age of crime writing. But in order to be published she used a male pseudonym, and successfully concealed her true identity for many years. From the poignancy of the First World War and its aftermath to...
10) My secret diary
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
A memoir of Jacqueline Wilson's life as a teenager - her problems with her family, first love, her school life & her friends. Hear extracts from her real secret teenage diaries & the stories she wrote as a teenager.
Author
Publisher
HarperPress
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Du Mauriers - three beautiful, successful and rebellious sisters, whose lives were bound in a family drama that inspired Angela and Daphne's best novels. Much has been written about Daphne but here the hidden lives of the sisters are revealed in a riveting group biography.
Author
Publisher
Clipper Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sorrow and joyin London's oldest suburb. . . Welcome to the East End. Life in Cockney London was tough in the post-war years. The government's broken promises had led to a chronic housing shortage, rampant crime and families living in squalor. But one thing prevailed: the unbeatable spirit of the East End, a tight-knit community who pulled through the dark times with humour and heart. Drawing on both family history and her own memories of growing...
Author
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Lesley Pearse didn't publish her first novel until she was 48. Now she has sold over ten million books around the world and is a constant presence on the bestseller chart. A writer of heart-stopping stories, Lesley's books are filled with heroines struggling to make it in a difficult world. Yet this description could apply to Lesley herself. In this, her first ever autobiography, she tells of growing up in an orphanage after her mother's death, her...
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