BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
FIRES WHICH BURNED BRIGHTLY
Sebastian Faulks
HB $ 45.00
A new, wise and warmly funny work of memoir from bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks. In Fires Which Burned Brightly, Faulks, a reluctant memoirist, offers readers a series of detailed snapshots from a life in progress. They include a post-war rural childhood, the boozesodden heyday of Fleet Street, and a career as one of the country’ s most acclaimed novelists. The book is driven by a desire‘ to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.’ Sharply perceptive and alive with generous wit, Fires Which Burned Brightly is a work of subtle yet profound intelligence and warmth.
HOMEWORK Geoff Dyer
HB $ 39.99
In Homework, Geoff Dyer reflects on his childhood and what it means to come of age in England in the 60s and 70s, in a country shaped by the aftermath of the Second World War but accelerating towards change. He was born in Cheltenham in the late 50s, the only child of a dinner lady and a planning engineer. Raised in a working-class area, Geoff and his mates found much joy recreating battles with their beloved Tommy guns, kicking a beach ball around, and collecting anything and everything they could find. When Geoff passed his 11-plus exams he was accepted to Cheltenham Grammar School, a school which drastically changed the trajectory of his life.
MOTHER MARY COMES TO ME
Arundhati Roy
PB $ 36.99
Arundhati Roy’ s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother, Mary. The result is this astonishing, disconcerting, surprisingly funny chronicle that is unique and simultaneously universal of the author’ s life. With the scale, sweep, and depth of her novels, and the passion, political clarity, and warmth of her essays, Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom, and a tribute to thorny love and savage grace.
ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER
Elizabeth Gilbert
PB $ 34.99
In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable and in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe. What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? And what if heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening? All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love or to any other passion, substance or craving and who yearns, at long last, for liberation. From the bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat, Pray, Love comes her first non-fiction book in a decade.
LARRY Michael Haag
HB $ 55.00
Lawrence Durrell was unquestionably one of the most distinctive, original and compelling literary figures of his age. From his childhood in India and Burma to his bohemian youth in London and Paris, from his madcap scheme to move his family to Corfu to the formative war years spent in Alexandria – this masterful and richly detailed biography is essential reading to understand the man and the writer. In Larry, Michael Haag, the world’ s foremost expert on the Durrells, offers the definitive account of the young Lawrence and the real-life settings and stories that inspired his acknowledged masterpiece, The Alexandria Quartet.
due dec 23
THE LETTERS OF MURIEL SPARK( VOLUME 1: 1944-1963)
Muriel Spark
HB $ 79.99
Muriel Spark is the internationally renowned author of seven critically acclaimed, bestselling novels. Muriel Spark’ s letters – witty, affectionate, sharp, mercurial – reveal the turbulence of her early career in postwar London. They also trace her development from little-known poet to celebrated novelist, with glittering insights into the emergence of her unique literary voice, as well as her relationships with friends, lovers, writers and publishers. The Letters of Muriel Spark is an essential read.
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