J.D Salinger: A Life Raised High by Kennett Slawenski
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
In this new and definitive biography, Salinger expert Kenneth Slawenski recounts the author's life. Slawenski researched the book for eight years, speaking with more than 60 people connected to Salinger.
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling author and Orange Prize winner Ann Patchett's first work of non-fiction is a book about her long friendship with the critically acclaimed, and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy. It is remarkable for me to remember now that I thought it would be possible to walk away from her, that she mi ...Show more
The World Is What It Is :The Authorised Biography of V.S. Naipaul by Patrick French
$18.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Writing with unique access to his memories and his private papers, and with great love for his formidable body of work, Patrick French brings us unique and often surprising insights into the most enigmatic and compelling literary figure of the last fifty years. Beginning in rich and evocative detail in ...Show more
The Life of Irene Nemirovsky : 1903-1942 by Patrick Lienhardt & Olivier Philipponnat
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Irene Nemirovsky's own life was as dramatic as any fiction. Few writers enjoy posthumous success as astonishing as hers after the international triumph of Suite Francaise. She was born in 1903 in Kiev to a well-off Jewish family, but died in Auschwitz only 39 years later. With her parents she fled the R ...Show more
Melville - A Biography by Laurie Robertson-Lorant
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Drawing on more than five hundred newly discovered letters, this book immerses the reader in the often turbulent world of Herman Melville, from his childhood to his seafaring days, to his often frustrating career as a writer. With energetic prose and an unerring eye for psychological nuance, Laurie Robe ...Show more
The Happiest Man Alive - A Biography of Henry Miller by Mary V. Dearborn
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
A Private Life of Henry James by Lyndall Gordon
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography
Lyndall Gordon investigates the writer's relations with two remarkable women who were close to him, and traces their effect and influence in his work. Both these women haunted James, his elusive friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson, who died in 1894, echoed his mysterious relationship with Minnie ...Show more
James Joyce - The Years of Growth, 1882-1915: A Biography by Peter Costello
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
This record of the early life of James Joyce is based on years of research into his education, religious and sexual experiences, family life and his roamings around Dublin - all of which are significant features of his highly autobiographical novels.
In Broken Images - Selected Letters of Robert Graves 1914-1946 and Between Moon and Moon, Selected Letters of Robert Graves 1946-1972 by Robert Graves; Paul O'Prey (editor)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Graham Greene - The Enemy Within by Michael Shelden
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Searching for the Secret River: A Writing Memoir by Kate Grenville
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Kate Grenville's The Secret River moved and exhilarated thousands of readers when it was published in 2005. They marvelled at the subtlety of its language, and the power of Grenville's storytelling. And they recognised that this simple tale of a poor convict family settling on the banks of the Hawkesbur ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
'Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again!' When Kat ...Show more