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Book Of Colour
Her first work of fiction, this journey around the writer's father and grandfather is set largely in Mauritius and concerns childhood, madness, fears of miscegenation - and a pig. …
The Feast of the Wolf
Old Man Goya
An account of the life of Francisco de Goya from 1792 when he was 47 and contracted a serious illness which left him totally deaf. Through times of war and political turmoil he …
Emperor's Last Island
The Emperor's Last Stand is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history, and about the tangle of stories and myths, absurdities and simple facts that have …
Thin Paths
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of …
With Billie
During the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, planning to write a biography of Billie, recorded interviews with more than 150 people. Kuehl died in 1978 and her book never …
Charles Waterton 1782-1865
Charles Waterton was the first conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the destruction and pollution of Victorian industrialisation. Using his surviving papers, …
LEPER'S COMPANIONS
To escape from her own sadness, a woman finds refuge in a past time. A man's discovery of a mermaid washed up on the sand starts a chain of events that leads three of the villagers …
Three of Us
when he later committed suicide the relationship between mother and daughter was shattered irrevocably. Or so it seemed until the spring of 1999, when Rosalie, diagnosed with …
Daisy Bates in the Desert
In 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. In Daisy Bates in the Desert Julia Blackburn explores the ancient and desolate …