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"Biography of and interviews with renowned poet Sam Hunt about his writing and his gradual retirement from touring"--Publisher information.
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A unique and intimate survey of the lives and work of 12 of our most acclaimed writers: Patricia Grace, Tessa Duder, Owen Marshall, Philip Temple, David Hill, Joy Cowley, Vincent O'Sullivan, Albert Wendt, Marilyn Duckworth, Chris Else, Fiona Kidman and Witi Ihimaera.
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The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years.
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In Girl Boy Girl, Knoop tells her side of the story, revealing how she came to portray the young trans hustler turned literary wunderkind - a persona created by her sister-in-law, Laura Albert, to help sell her books. Much more than an inside look at one of the most famous litera ...
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From the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home : Dazzling, essential, entirely unlike anything else -- a memoir on modern womanhood, rejecting oppressive social expectations and turning instead towards a thrilling, transformative freedom What doe ...
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The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering icon Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the m ...
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This book explores the life of beloved children's author Roald Dahl, revealing some of the little-known events that shaped his life and work.
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Dashing for the Post, the first selection of letters from Patrick Leigh Fermor (known to all as `Paddy'), delighted critics and public alike. Here now is a further selection, More Dashing, offering equal pleasure. Paddy's exuberant letters exude a zest characteristic of the man. ...
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Edith Nesbit is considered the first modern writer for children and the inventor of the children's adventure story publishing over 40 books, influencing writers including C.S. Lewis, P. L. Travers, J.K. Rowling and Jacqueline Wilson. Playful, contradictory and creative, Nesbit ho ...
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A fitting tribute to the acerbic wit and incisive commentary of one of Britain's finest post-war journalists.
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