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John Freeman Kazuo Ishiguro, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, Alan Hollinghurst, David Mitchell, Salmon Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Rose Tremain, Will Self, Jeannette Winterson...long before they were household names, they were Granta Best of... | J. G. Ballard; Simon Sellars; Dan... A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard's greatest interviews. |
Kurt Vonnegut Includes the letter the twenty-two-year old Vonnegut wrote home immediately upon being freed from the German POW camp; wry dispatches from Vonnegut's years as a struggling writer; letters to... | Edna O'Brien Lets us come face to face with literary life of high drama and contemplation. This title provides encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars and literary titans - all of whom... |
F. Scott Fitzgerald; Zelda ... Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career highs (and lows) and her institutional confinement, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for more than twenty-two years... | Christopher Hitchens The best of 40 years of writing on politics, literature and religion from the finest English essayist since George Orwell. |
D. T. Max A unique portrait of the life and death of a totemic writer - who inspired a generation | John Mullan From 'Is there Sex Before Marriage in Austen?' to 'Which important Austen characters never speak?' the Guardian Book Club columnist answers 21 apparently trivial questions that reveal deep and hidden... Delivery: To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | £14.99 | £10.49 | 30% |  Despatched in 1 business day. |   Add to Basket | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am today. In stock items only. Click for more info. | £14.99 | £12.74 | 15% |  Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | | | | Currently unavailable | Currently unavailable |
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Margaret Atwood From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a writer and... | P. G. Wodehouse One of the funniest and most admired writers of the twentieth century, P G Wodehouse always shied away from the idea of a biography. A quiet, retiring man, he expressed... |
John Sutherland Provides the lives of some 294 novelists writing in English, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. This book shows the changing forms of the genre, and how... | Eva Gabrielsson; Marie-Francoise... The poignant account of the thirty-year life shared together by Stieg Larsson and Eva Gabrielsson. Delivery:To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | £7.99 | £5.59 | 30% | Despatched in 1 business day. | Add to Basket | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am today. In stock items only. Click for more info. | £7.99 | £6.79 | 15% | Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | | | | Currently unavailable | Currently unavailable |
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Sebastian Faulks Ever since "Robinson Crusoe" in 1719, the novel has introduced British readers to truly unforgettable characters - people in whom we can find deeper understanding of our own lives. This... | Homer; Stephen Mitchell A stunning new translation of the classic tale of Greeks, Trojans and the fall of Troy; An ILIAD for the 21st century. |
Barry Forshaw Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert,presents a celebration and analysis ofthe Scandinavian crime genre, from Sjowall and Wahloo's Martin Beck series through Henning Mankell's Wallander to Stieg Larsson's... | Antonia Fraser A unique testimony to modern literature's most celebrated and enduring marriage. |