The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
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In this epic biography of Edward Lansdale (1908 1987), the man said to be the fictional model for...
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The Smith of Smiths: Being the Life, Wit and Humour of Sydney Smith
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Queen Victoria was amused! It may seem unlikely but the preface to this famous biography is given...
Through Grown-up Eyes: Living with Childhood Fame
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Bobby Henrey was eight when he was improbably chosen by film director Carol Reed and producer Sir...
Vanishing Streets: Journeys in London
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Vanishing Streets reveals an American writer's twenty-year love affair with London. Beguiling and...
Lives in Writing
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This is a collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic....
Common Writing: Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate
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In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the...
Fools of Fortune
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Fools of Fortune by William Trevor - a classic early novel from one of the world's greatest writers...
Night Trains: The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper
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Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments,...
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
David Bradshaw and Ford Madox Ford
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Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an...
The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology
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.G. Wodehouse was, by common consent, the most brilliant writer of English comedy in the 20th...