Biography & Autobiography: Literary
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There were 9 books found.
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£20.00Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography - - 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. -
£12.99Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life In Letters - - 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These remarkably candid and previously unpublished letters between Arthur Conan Doyle and his mother, dating from 1867 until her death in 1921, paint a fascinating portrait of one of Britain's most beloved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. -
£10.99Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes - - Paperback
With access to new material, Lycett gives a comprehensive, psychologically and readable portrait of the man who created Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle. -
£20.00Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes - - Hardback
With access to new material, Lycett gives a comprehensive, psychologically and readable portrait of the man who created Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle. -
£6.99For The Islands I Sing: An Autobiography - - 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. -
£16.99The Life Of Samuel Johnson - - 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. -
£3.99The Life Of Samuel Johnson - - 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. -
£3.99The Life Of Samuel Johnson - - 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. -
£20.00Yesterday Was Summer: The Marion Campbell Story - - 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.