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Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - he recalls …
In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of her life with Sartre, the …
Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up …
This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer, to a man engulfed and menaced by mental …
Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast …
Henry Green wrote his autobiography in 1940, aged only thirty-five, because he was convinced he wouldn't survive the war.
This is a revealing work which Laurens van der Post wrote about his extraordinary and eventful life. It is a distillation of the experiences that have moved him at the deepest …
An introduction to the thinking of the French intellectual, Roland Barthes, as applied to such diverse topics as Gide, Garbo, striptease, photography and the Eiffel Tower. The …
Adventure, discovery and tragedy teem in this account into the sinister, primeval heights of Mount Mlanje and the cloud walled uplands of Myika.