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A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life.This enthralling memoir follows her through triumph and tragedy in about equal measure, from the disastrous marriage of her parents and the ...Show more
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Esteemed biographer and legendary literary editor Claire Tomalin's stunning memoir of a life in literature " An] intelligent and humane book...There is genuine appeal in watching this indomitable woman continue to chase the next draft of herself." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times In A Life of My ...Show more
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
"Charles Dickens" is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin. Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the cr ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Pursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies at her heels. Dying at the age of only 34, she became posthumously one of the most influential writers of the last century. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, she glittered in the ...Show more
Meet Me in Buenos Aires by Marlene Hobsbawm; Claire Tomalin
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
At the time of his death Eric Hobsbawm was the most famous historian in the world. He not only wrote history was also witness to it, from the Communist uprising in Europe to revolution in Cuba where he was Che Guevara's interpreter. He was instrumental in the birth of New Labour and was also a jazz jour ...Show more
Samuel Pepys - The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the turbulent world around him, exactly what it was like to ...Show more
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
26.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Claire Tomalin's thrilling life of Pepys carried all before it when it was first published in 2002: it won the Whitbread Biography Award, and was then named Whitbread Book of the Year. Tomalin paints an unforgettable portrait of the man himself - diarist, civil servant, restless husband - who was presen ...Show more
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, the father of science fiction, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H.G Wells' life shape a fantastic writer into a visionary? Claire Tomalin's remarkable and empathetic biography, focusing on HG Wells' early l ...Show more
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographersHow did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to ...Show more
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