Simon Stephens: a Working Diary by Simon Stephens
$34.99 NZD
Category: Literary Biography | Series: Theatre Makers Ser.
2014 was a spectacular year for playwright Simon Stephens, who has been described by the Independent as 'a brilliant writer of immense imagination' and by the Financial Times as having 'emerged in this millennium as an outstanding playwright'. 2014 was a year for Simon Stephens which featured a high num ...Show more
Solitude & Company: The Life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Silvana Paternostro
$37.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
Prize-winning journalist SILVANA PATERNOSTRO grew up in Barranquilla, Colombia, home to Garcia Marquez's fabled literary group, La Cueva. In 1999, she was selected by Time/CNN as one of "Fifty Latin American Leaders for the Millennium," and is the author of In the Land of God and Man, nominated for the ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
$21.62 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. <b><i>Somewhere Becoming Rain</b></i> gathers all of James’s writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time. The greatness of Larkin’ ...Show more
Speak, Silence - In Search of W. G. Sebald [Hardback] by Carole Angier
$65.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
The first biography of W. G. Sebald: a robust, intricate, landmark portrait of one of the most significant and lauded cultural figures of the twentieth centuryW.G. Sebald was one of the most extraordinary and influential writers of the twentieth century. Through books includingThe Emigrants,Austerlitzan ...Show more
Splinters: A Memoir by Leslie Jamison
$39.99 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage - an exploration of motherhood, art and new love. In this blend of memoir and criticism, Leslie Jamison turns her attention to some of the most int ...Show more
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022 by Katherine Rundell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
‘Masterly.’ Observer ‘Wonderful, joyous.’ Maggie O'Farrell‘Frankly brilliant.’ Sunday Times‘Unmissable.’ Simon Jenkins ‘Every page sparkles.’ Claire Tomalin ‘A triumph.’ Matt Haig ‘Stylish, scholarly and gripping.’ Rose Tremain John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disas ...Show more
Swimming to Cambodia by Spalding Gray
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography | Series: Picador Bks.
"It took courage to do what Spalding did--courage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our hearts--my heart--because he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life."--Eric Bogosian"Virtuosic. A master wri ...Show more
Teller of the Unexpected: The Life of Roald Dahl, An Unofficial Biography by Matthew Dennison
$54.99 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
From one of our finest contemporary biographers, a concise life of Roald Dahl - much-loved author and creator of numerous iconic literary characters. Roald Dahl was one of the world's greatest storytellers. He conceived his vocation as one as intrepid as that of any explorer and, in his writing for chil ...Show more