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Real Jane Austen(2014) BYRNE, PAULAWho was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne's landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books.Vezava: Mehka13,58 € -
Paris to the Moon(2008) GOPNIK, ADAMAdam Gopnik's memoir of five years as an American family man in ParisVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Must You Go?(2011) FRASER, LADY ANTONIAA unique testimony to modern literature's most celebrated and enduring marriage.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Angel At My Table(2010) FRAME, JANETThe acclaimed autobiography of one of New Zealand's best-loved writers. Introduced by Jane Campion, who made it into a prize-winning film.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Shakespeare(2006) ACKROYD, PETEROffers a biography of Shakespeare, this book reads like the work of a contemporary meeting Shakespeare. It is a depiction of the world Shakespeare inhabited.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Lodger(2008) NICHOLL, CHARLESIn 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry - but it opens up an unexpected window into the dramatist'Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Shakespeare's Wife(2008) GREER, GERMAINEA biography of Ann Hathaway and a social history of Shakespeare's time by the redoubtable Germaine GreerVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot(2012) GORDON, LYNDALLThe most authoritative life of Eliot ever written, acclaimed biographer Lyndall Gordon brings into focus a flawed yet brilliant man.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
For Your Eyes Only(2009) MACINTYRE, BENThe official book on Ian Fleming and James Bond by the bestselling author of Agent ZigzagVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Last Leopard(2008) GILMOUR, DAVIDAims to unearth the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the novels of the twentieth century. This book stands as a meditation on what it is that makes a writer.Vezava: Mehka19,62 € -
Last Englishman(2013) ROGERS, BYRONJ. L. Carr was the most English of Englishmen: headmaster of a Northamptonshire school, cricket enthusiast and campaigner for the conservation of country churches. But he was also the author of half a dozen utterly unique novels.Vezava: Mehka25,23 € -
Brontes(2010) BARKER, JULIET* Abacus reissue of Juliet Barker's unrivalled biography of the Bronte sisters, revised for this editionVezava: Mehka28,04 € -
C S Lewis(2013) DURIEZ, COLIN (READER)An accessible biography of C S Lewis, his life and the friendships that shaped him.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
World of Christopher Marlowe(2005) RIGGS, PROFESSOR DAVIDDavid Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Georgette Heyer Biography(2013) KLOESTER, JENNIFERGeorgette Heyer remains an enduring international bestseller, read and loved by four generations of readers and extolled by today's bestselling authors. Georgette Heyer wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, when she was seventeen in order to amuse her coVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
The Life of Milarepa (Penguin Classics)(2011) HERUKA, TSANGNYONTells the story of the Tibetan people. This title offers an introduction to Tibetan Buddhism. It presents a quest for purification and buddhahood in a single lifetime, tracing the path of a great sinner who became a great saint.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €