Biography & Autobiography: Literary

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  • Cover scan of Alasdair Gray
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    Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography - Rodge Glass - Hardback
    Glass plays Boswell to Gray's Johnson in this humorous yet rigorous biography. Glass has used the inventive techniques of Gray's fiction to bear, mixing a chronological narrative of his subject's life with his own diaries of meeting, getting to know and working with the celebrated artist, writer and campaigner.
  • Cover scan of Arthur Conan Doyle
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    Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life In Letters - Arthur Conan Doyle - Paperback
    These remarkably candid and previously unpublished letters between Arthur Conan Doyle and his mother, dating from 1867 until her death in 1921, paint a fascinating portrait of one of Britain's most beloved authors and a complex man who both embodied and defied the conventions of his time.
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    Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes - Andrew Lycett - Paperback
    With access to new material, Lycett gives a comprehensive, psychologically and readable portrait of the man who created Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle.
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    Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes - Andrew Lycett - Hardback
    With access to new material, Lycett gives a comprehensive, psychologically and readable portrait of the man who created Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle.
  • Cover scan of For The Islands I Sing
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    For The Islands I Sing: An Autobiography - George Mackay Brown - Paperback
    George Mackay died in 1996. He wrote this memoir in the years before his death, but did not want it published while he was still alive. Here his simple, bardic honesty is turned upon himself.
  • Cover scan of The Life Of Samuel Johnson
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    The Life Of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell - Paperback
    Preserving the integrity of the 1799 edition, this new edition of Boswell's biography of Samuel Johnson provides a unique perspective on one of England's truly great literary figures.
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    The Life Of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell - Paperback
    James Boswell first met Samuel Johnson in 1763. Nine years later he wrote in his journal of his 'constant plan to write the life of Mr Johnson'. Boswell was tireless in his search for authenticated proof, and his training as a lawyer helped him sift the evidence of friends and to operate forensically on Johnson himself.
  • Cover scan of The Life Of Samuel Johnson
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    The Life Of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell - Paperback
    Preserving the integrity of the 1799 edition, this new edition of Boswell's biography of Samuel Johnson provides a unique perspective on one of England's truly great literary figures.
  • Cover scan of Yesterday Was Summer
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    Yesterday Was Summer: The Marion Campbell Story - Marian Pallister; David Adams McGilp - Hardback
    Marion Campbell enriched Scotland's cultural legacy by publishing more than 80 works in a writing career spanning more than half a century. This volume looks at the woman and her remarkable output.