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All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality. Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, ...Show more
All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023** ** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023** 'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L. KENNEDY Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's career was ...Show more
Charlotte Bronte: A Life by Claire Harman
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Charlotte Bront famously lived her life in a parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and creative siblings. Claire Harman's biography transcends these melancholy facts to reveal a woman for whom duty and piety gave way to rebellion and ambition. Drawing on letters unavailable to previ ...Show more
Charlotte Bronte: A Life by Claire Harman
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors, watching five beloved siblings sicken and die, haunted by unrequited love: Charlotte Bronte's life has all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. Charlotte was a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force behind th ...Show more
Murder by the Book - A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime by Claire Harman
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Category: True Crime | Series: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the Guardian's '50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018' Early in the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a footman answered the door to a panic-stricken maid from a nearby house. Her elderly master, Lord William Russell, was lying in bed with his throat cut so deeply that the ...Show more
Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime by Claire Harman
22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'A fascinating portrait of Victorian London' Observer'I devoured it in one sitting' Alison Weir'Excellent' Dan Snow Early on the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, the elderly Lord William Russell was discovered in bed with his throat cut so deeply that the head was almost s ...Show more
Sylvia Townsend Warner - A Biography by Claire Harman
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 'One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years' Sarah Waters The poet Sylvia Townsend Warner rose to sudden fame with the publication of her classic feminist novel Lolly Willowesin 1926, but never became a conventional member of ...Show more
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