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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
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
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 creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the Artful Dodger, Mr Pick ...Show more
Charles Dickens - A Life by Claire Tomalin
$22.95 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
Jane Austen : A Life by Claire Tomalin
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the Austen family and their Hampshire neighbours, and of Jane's ...Show more
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Claire Tomalin brings her extraordinary gifts of scholarship, fluent writing and empathy for her subjects to bear on one of our greatest, and most elusive, novelists. Widely acclaimed as the finest of Austen biographies, the book offers us "a brave, sharp-tongued character who fairly bounces off the pag ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
$22.99 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
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
I am a secretive person to my last bones, wrote Katherine Mansfield at the end of her life.When she died in 1923, her friends mourned her lost beauty and brilliant gifts, but acknowledged that she remained an enigma. Since then, the true facts have been slowly uncovered to reveal a complex character and ...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
$29.99 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
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
The Invisible Woman (Film Tie-in) The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'This is the story of someone who - almost - wasn't there; who vanished into thin air. Her names, dates, family and experiences very nearly disappeared from the record for good . . . ' Claire Tomalin's multi-award-winning story of the life of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens is a remarkable work of biog ...Show more
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published "A Vindication of the Rights of Women", lived through the Terror in France, had an illegitimate daughter and married the philosopher William Godwin before dying in childbirth at ...Show more