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Arthur and Sherlock
Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
2018 Edgar Award Nominee
Shortlisted for the H. R. F. Keating Award from the International Crime Writers Association
From Michael Sims, the acclaimed author of The Story of Charlotte's Web, the rich, true tale tracing the young Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes and the modern...
The Fall of the House of Wilde
Oscar Wilde and His Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The first biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu--a compelling volume that finally tells the whole story.
It's widely known that Oscar Wilde was precociously intellectual, flamboyant, and hedonistic--but lesser so that he owed...
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Provocations
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Whether she is contemplating promiscuity or The New Testament, lamenting about what she should have said to Oprah, or learning to tango, Grealy seduces and surprises the reader at every turn. With the sheer brilliance of her imagination, Grealy leads us on delightful journeys with her wit, unflinching...
The Bitter Taste of Victory
Life, Love, and Art in the Ruins of the Reich
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
When Germany surrendered in May 1945 it was a nation reduced to rubble. Immediately, America, Britain, Soviet Russia, and France set about rebuilding in their zones of occupation. Most urgent were physical needs--food, water, and sanitation--but from the start the Allies were also anxious to indoctrinate...
Taken Care Of
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Dame Edith Sitwell died while this autobiography was in the course of printing. One of the last acts of her life was to approve the 'specimen page' from the printer. She did not live to correct her proofs and what, if any, changes she might have made is a matter for conjecture. The book, as she wrote...
The Best of Us
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year List
Indie Next Pick "For Reading Groups"
From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne...
by Janet Todd
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
'Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the mores of the time' New York Times
'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn; for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,' said Virginia Woolf. Yet that tomb, in Westminster...
Barbara Cartland
Crusader in Pink
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
From the author of All the Money in the World, now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott, comes an account of a phenomenon and a legend in her lifetime, Barbara Cartland.
Barbara Cartland published more than 700 novels, and she holds the Guinness World Records for the most novels...
Alexandre Dumas
The King of Romance
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
The last of Alexandre Dumas's many mistresses, the American actress Adah Menken, called him "the king of romance." She was not thinking only of his immensely popular novels The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo - everything about Dumas was touched with the spirit of romance,...
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau
A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Henry David Thoreau has long been an intellectual icon and folk hero. In this strikingly original profile, Michael Sims reveals how the bookish, quirky young man who kept quitting jobs evolved into the patron saint of environmentalism and nonviolent activism.
Working from nineteenth-century...
Philip Larkin
Life, Art and Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A revelatory, intimate, and sympathetic study of Philip Larkin, an iconic poet and a much misunderstood man, offering fresh understanding of the interplay of his life and work.
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is one of the most beloved poets in English. Yet after his death a largely negative image...
The Gentle Barbarian
The Life and Work of Turgenev
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
'A gentle giant', as the Goncourts called him, Turgenev emerged from the barbarous yet doting rules of a terrible mother, whose cruelties to her serfs are at the heart of his hatred of serfdom. He was saturated in femininity and could not write unless he was in love. When he freed himself from his...
Longitude
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem."
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was...
The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt
A Tyranny of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
**'A genre-breaking insight into one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century' Stylist's Emerald Street
'Incredible' Deborah Levy**
A hero of political thought, the largely unsung and often misunderstood Hannah Arendt is perhaps best known for her landmark book, The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Arendt...