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A film tie-in edition of Vera Brittain's classic autobiography, Testament of Youth which is now a major motion picture adaptation starring Dominic West, Emily Watson, Alicia …
The acclaimed autobiography of one of New Zealand's best-loved writers. Introduced by Jane Campion, who made it into a prize-winning film.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Miss du Maurier has brought to the art of the biography the narrative urgency' NEW YORK TIMES …
'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing: Anne Lister's diaries are an indispensable read for anyone interested in the history of gender, sexuality, and the intimate lives …
One of America's most important classics, the first and best loved volume of Maya Angelou's bestselling seven-volume autobiography
ANNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK, THE ACCLAIMED BBC/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES. 'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian …
A startling account of a German survivor of the Second World War: 'One of the most extraordinary and moving books I have ever read' Antonia Fraser
'I was born in Bethnal Green ...a tiny scrap of humanity. I was my mother's seventh, and seven more were born after me ...When I was ten years old I began to earn my own living.' …
In 1916, when Rebecca West was not yet twenty-five years old, George Bernard Shaw wrote: 'Rebecca can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.' These …
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'A remarkable book . . . brilliant comic writing' THE TIMES'An enthralling picture of family life . . . devotion to Gerald, the man' KIRKUS …