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Going with the Boys - Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line (Paperback): Judith Mackrell Going with the Boys - Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line (Paperback)
Judith Mackrell
R299 R234 Discovery Miles 2 340 Save R65 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'They were not just reporters; they were also pioneers, and Judith Mackrell has done them proud.' -Spectator Going with the Boys follows six intrepid women as their lives and careers intertwined on the front lines of the Second World War. Martha Gellhorn got the scoop on D-Day by traveling to Normandy as a stowaway on a Red Cross ship; Lee Miller went from being a Vogue cover model to the magazine's official war correspondent; Sigrid Schultz hid her Jewish identity and risked her life by reporting on the Nazi regime; Virginia Cowles, transformed herself from 'society girl columnist' to combat reporter; Clare Hollingworth was the first English journalist to break the news of the war, while Helen Kirkpatrick was the first woman to report from an Allied war zone to be granted equal privileges to her male colleagues. Barred from official briefings and from combat zones, their lives made deliberately difficult by entrenched prejudice, all six set up their own informal contacts and found their own pockets of war action. In this gripping, intimate and nuanced account, Judith Mackrell celebrates these extraordinary women and reveals how they wrote history as it was being made, changing the face of war reporting forever. 'This is a book that manages to be thoughtful and edge-of-your-seat thrilling.' - Mail on Sunday 'Like the copy filed by her subjects, it is an essential read.' - BBC History Magazine

Words On Paper - Reflections Of An Incurable Collector (Hardcover): Jeff Fisher Words On Paper - Reflections Of An Incurable Collector (Hardcover)
Jeff Fisher 4
R485 R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Save R97 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

If you like true stories about real people, are intrigued by serendipity, curious about curiosities, or maybe you are a collector yourself, then this book is for you.

The collecting and researching of any collectable is an intense and pleasurable pastime. The author’s passion for more than half a century has been for collecting handwritten, original letters, antique documents, manuscripts, old share certificates, fire insurance policies, photographs and maps.

The writers of these words on paper include kings and queens, presidents and prime ministers, admirals and generals, actors and authors, judges and prisoners, philosophers, statesmen, scientists, and sportsmen. Some were famous, some infamous, some important, others less so. Many you will know about; with others, only their names may be familiar. There’s Admiral Nelson, and the Duke of Wellington; there are queens Elizabeth I and II and kings George III, IV and VI; presidents Eisenhower, Kruger, and Mandela are here; prime ministers Botha, Hertzog and Smuts; explorers Scott and Shackleton. There’s Faraday and De la Rey, and many more, including two controversial giants of history – Napoleon and Rhodes.

The chapters need not be read in any set order, although there is an underlying thread linking them to the life of the author that enabled this eclectic collection to evolve in the way it did.

Guy Butler - Reassessing a South African Literary Life (Paperback): Guy Butler - Reassessing a South African Literary Life (Paperback)
R110 R86 Discovery Miles 860 Save R24 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Guy Butler was a substantial public figure in South Africa over the second half of the 20th century: professor, poet, playwright, autobiographer, historian, and cultural politician. Nevertheless, his is not a familiar name to the majority of South Africans and, where he is known, Butler remains a problematic figure. Author Chris Thurman's assessment of Butler's life and work also represents a response to life in South Africa preceding, during, and at the end of the apartheid era. The book is more than the study of one man, it is the examination of an era and the role of white, English-speaking liberals in South Africa. Guy Butler was seen as a 'grand old man' in South African literature rather than as a writer for a new generation of readers. Yet much of Butler's work was, and still is, subversive and intellectually compelling with an enduring literary value. His response to the South African situation presents readers with a challenge to acknowledge frankly those elements in his oeuvre that distance him from us, without losing sight of the significance it holds. This book makes use of Butler's private correspondence and unpublished archive material, combining biographical insight with criticism of his publications in various genres to offer a balanced explication of his life and work.

Letters to Gil (Paperback): Malik Al Nasir Letters to Gil (Paperback)
Malik Al Nasir
R232 Discovery Miles 2 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure' IRENOSEN OKOJIE Letters to Gil is Malik Al Nasir's profound coming of age memoir - the story of surviving physical and racial abuse and discovering a new sense of self-worth under the wing of the great artist, poet and civil rights activist Gil Scott-Heron. Born in Liverpool, Malik was taken into care at the age of nine after his seafaring father became paralysed. He would spend his adolescence in a system that proved violent, neglectful, exploitative, traumatising and mired in abuse. Aged eighteen, he emerged semi-literate, penniless with no connections or sense of where he was going - until a chance meeting with Gil Scott-Heron. Letters to Gil will tell the story of Malik's empowerment and awakening while mentored by Gil, from his introduction to the legacy of Black history to the development of his voice through poetry and music. Written with lyricism and power, it is a frank and moving memoir, highlighting how institutional racism can debilitate and disadvantage a child, as well as how mentoring, creativity, self-expression and solidarity helped him to uncover his potential.

Gather Together In My Name (Paperback): Maya Angelou Gather Together In My Name (Paperback)
Maya Angelou
R280 R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Save R56 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The sequel to I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' Barack Obama Maya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In the sequel to her bestselling I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou is a young mother in California, unemployed, embarking on brief affairs and transient jobs in shops and night-clubs, turning to prostitution and the world of narcotics. Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humour and humanity. 'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY 'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON

For Your Eyes Only - Ian Fleming and James Bond (Paperback): Ben MacIntyre For Your Eyes Only - Ian Fleming and James Bond (Paperback)
Ben MacIntyre 1
R335 R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Save R63 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A riveting look into the world of James Bond and his creator, published on the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth.
In "For Your Eyes Only," Ben Macintyre reveals where the world of Ian Fleming ends and the world of James Bond begins. Macintyre looks at the actual people on whom the writer based his fictional creations--friends, colleagues, lovers, and, of course, the notorious villains. Exploring the tradition of spy fiction past and present, with specific attention to the Cold War, Macintyre explains how Bond was based on the realities--and fantasies--of Fleming's life as a wartime spymaster and peacetime bon vivant.
Stylishly illustrated, "For Your Eyes Only" features a collector's dream of gadgets, costumes, props, and storyboards from the films--Daniel Craig's bloodstained shirt from Casino Royale, the Aston Martin DB5, complete with weaponry--as well as memorabilia from Fleming's personal archive: his smoking jacket, the manuscript for "Casino Royale," his golden typewriter, his guns, and much more.

Heart Earth - A Memoir (Paperback): Ivan Doig Heart Earth - A Memoir (Paperback)
Ivan Doig
R424 R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Save R78 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Russian Writers and Society in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback): Ronald Hingley Russian Writers and Society in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
Ronald Hingley
R912 Discovery Miles 9 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1977, begins with a close look at the lives of nineteenth century Russian writers, and at the problems of their profession. It then examines their environment in its broader aspects, the Russian empire being considered from the point of view of geography, ethnography, economics, and the impact of individual Tsars on writers and society. A discussion of the main social 'estates' follows, and concluding is an analysis in their literary context of the activities of the competing forces of cohesion and disruption in imperial society: the civil service, law courts, police, army, schools, universities, press, censorship, revolutionaries and agitators. This book makes possible a fuller understanding of the works of Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov and the other great Russian writers.

What She Ate - Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (Paperback): Laura Shapiro What She Ate - Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (Paperback)
Laura Shapiro
R306 R228 Discovery Miles 2 280 Save R78 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'If you find the subject of food to be both vexing and transfixing, you'll love What She Ate' Elle Did you know that Eleanor Roosevelt dished up Eggs Mexican (a concoction of rice, fried eggs, and bananas) in the White House? Or that Helen Gurley Brown's commitment to 'having it all' meant dining on supersized portions of diet gelatine? In the irresistible What She Ate, Laura Shapiro examines the plates, recipe books and shopping trolleys of six extraordinary women, from Dorothy Wordsworth to Eva Braun. Delving into diaries, newspaper articles, cook books and more, Shapiro casts a different light on the usual narratives of women's lives. Finding meaning in every morsel, and looking through the lens of their attitudes towards food, she masterfully reveals the love and rage, desire and denial, need and pleasure, behind six remarkable appetites.

Lydia Maria Child - A Radical American Life (Hardcover): Lydia Moland Lydia Maria Child - A Radical American Life (Hardcover)
Lydia Moland
R1,020 R854 Discovery Miles 8 540 Save R166 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America's most courageous abolitionists. By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the American nineteenth century: a beloved and self-sufficient female author. Best known today for the immortal poem "Over the River and through the Wood," Child had become famous at an early age for spunky self-help books and charming children's stories. But in 1833, Child shocked her readers by publishing the first book-length argument against slavery in the United States-a book so radical in its commitment to abolition that friends abandoned her, patrons ostracized her, and her book sales plummeted. Yet Child soon drew untold numbers to the abolitionist cause, becoming one of the foremost authors and activists of her generation. Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life tells the story of what brought Child to this moment and the extraordinary life she lived in response. Through Child's example, philosopher Lydia Moland asks questions as pressing and personal in our time as they were in Child's: What does it mean to change your life when the moral future of your country is at stake? When confronted by sanctioned evil and systematic injustice, how should a citizen live? Child's lifetime of bravery, conviction, humility, and determination provides a wealth of spirited guidance for political engagement today.

The Toni Morrison Book Club (Paperback): Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Casssandra Jackson, Piper Kendrix Williams The Toni Morrison Book Club (Paperback)
Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Casssandra Jackson, Piper Kendrix Williams
R467 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R80 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this startling group memoir, four friends-black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born-use Toni Morrison's novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about the problems of everyday racism and living whole in times of uncertainty. Tackling everything from first love and Soul Train to police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement, the authors take up what it means to read challenging literature collaboratively and to learn in public as an act of individual reckoning and social resistance. Framing their book club around collective secrets, the group bears witness to how Morrison's works and words can propel us forward while we sit with uncomfortable questions about race, gender, and identity. How do we make space for black vulnerability in the face of white supremacy and internalized self-loathing? How do historical novels speak to us now about the delicate seams that hold black minds and bodies together? This slim and brilliant confessional offers a radical vision for book clubs as sites of self-discovery and communal healing. The Toni Morrison Book Club insists that we find ourselves in fiction and think of Morrison as a spiritual guide to our most difficult thoughts and ideas about American literature and life.

Hemingway's Cats - Revised Cuba Edition (Paperback, Second Edition): Carlene Brennen Hemingway's Cats - Revised Cuba Edition (Paperback, Second Edition)
Carlene Brennen
R419 R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Save R64 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Man of the Crowd - Edgar Allan Poe and the City (Hardcover): Michelle Van Parys The Man of the Crowd - Edgar Allan Poe and the City (Hardcover)
Michelle Van Parys; Scott Peeples
R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writings Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven by a desire for literary success and the pressures of supporting his family, Poe sought work in American magazines, living in the cities that produced them. Scott Peeples chronicles Poe's rootless life in the cities, neighborhoods, and rooms where he lived and worked, exploring how each new place left its enduring mark on the writer and his craft. Poe wrote short stories, poems, journalism, and editorials with urban readers in mind. He witnessed urban slavery up close, living and working within a few blocks of slave jails and auction houses in Richmond and among enslaved workers in Baltimore. In Philadelphia, he saw an expanding city struggling to contain its own violent propensities. At a time when suburbs were just beginning to offer an alternative to crowded city dwellings, he tried living cheaply on the then-rural Upper West Side of Manhattan, and later in what is now the Bronx. Poe's urban mysteries and claustrophobic tales of troubled minds and abused bodies reflect his experiences living among the soldiers, slaves, and immigrants of the American city. Featuring evocative photographs by Michelle Van Parys, The Man of the Crowd challenges the popular conception of Poe as an isolated artist living in a world of his own imagination, detached from his physical surroundings. The Poe who emerges here is a man whose outlook and career were shaped by the cities where he lived, longing for a stable home.

The Young H.G. Wells - Changing the World (Paperback): Claire Tomalin The Young H.G. Wells - Changing the World (Paperback)
Claire Tomalin
R240 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R48 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction? From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to the serious ill health that dominated his twenties and thirties, his complicated marriages, and love affair with socialism, the first forty years of H. G. Wells' extraordinary life would set him on a path to become one of the world's most influential writers. The sudden success of The Time Machine and The War of The Worlds transformed his life and catapulted him to international fame; he became the writer who most inspired Orwell and countless others, and predicted men walking on the moon seventy years before it happened. In this remarkable, empathetic biography, Claire Tomalin paints a fascinating portrait of a man like no other, driven by curiosity and desiring reform, a socialist and a futurist whose new and imaginative worlds continue to inspire today. 'The finest of biographers' Hilary Mantel 'A most intelligent and sympathetic biographer' Daily Telegraph 'One of the best biographers of her generation' Guardian

Virginia Woolf at Home (Hardcover): Hilary Macaskill Virginia Woolf at Home (Hardcover)
Hilary Macaskill; Foreword by Cecil Woolf 1
R779 R582 Discovery Miles 5 820 Save R197 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Virginia Woolf, figurehead of the Bloomsbury Group and an innovative writer whose experimental style and lyrical prose ensured her position as one of the most influential of modern novelists, was also firmly anchored in the reality of the houses she lived in and those she visited regularly. Detailed and evocative accounts appear in her letters and diaries, as well as in her fiction, where they appear as backdrops or provide direct inspiration. Hilary Macaskill examines the houses that meant the most to Woolf, including: 22 Hyde Park Gate, London - where Virginia Woolf was born in 1882 Talland House, St Ives, Cornwall - the summer home of Virginia's family until 1895 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London - the birthplace of the Bloomsbury Group - Virginia lived here from 1904 to 1912 Hogarth House, Richmond, London - where the newly married Woolfs set up home and founded the Hogarth Press Asheham House, East Sussex - the summer home of the Woolfs, 1912-1919 52 Tavistock Square, London - a return to Bloomsbury, the heart of London Monk's House, Rodmell, East Sussex - where Virginia lived from 1919 until her death in 1941

Lives of the Great Romantics, Part I - Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth by Their Contemporaries (Hardcover): Chris Hart Lives of the Great Romantics, Part I - Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth by Their Contemporaries (Hardcover)
Chris Hart
R12,736 Discovery Miles 127 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In recent years, under pressure from New Historicism and developments in the formal study of biography, scholars have become increasingly conscious of how deliberately fashioned were the images of Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth. In Byron's case, this was often with his consent or collusion; in Shelley's case, it was the active efforts of his widow and friends who struggled to construct a particular picture of both man and poet. With Wordsworth the picture is less clear, since the kind of scrutiny that his two counterparts have recently received has rarely extended to him. The memoirs in this collection are written by those who had personal knowledge of Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth, or who claimed to be recording the accounts of those who had such knowledge. Each volume in this set contains the original memoirs in facsimile together with introductions and headnotes. The headnotes set the relevant context for each document, cross-referencing controversial passages.

Around the World in 65 Days - The Journal of the Real Phileas Fogg -- From Jules Verne to Tranquility Base (Paperback): George... Around the World in 65 Days - The Journal of the Real Phileas Fogg -- From Jules Verne to Tranquility Base (Paperback)
George Griffith, John Griffith, Robert Godwin
R302 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R31 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From 1893-1895 George Griffith was the most famous science fiction writer in England. His books entranced the readers of the 19th century with tales of Martians, submarines, immortality, rogue comets and even spaceships whizzing around the solar system. He invented the Countdown in 1897 and his son would become the co-inventor of the jet engine. Griffith's name became synonymous with high adventure and so in the Spring of 1894 he was recruited to follow in the mythical footsteps of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg. In just 65 days Griffith travelled through 24 time zones and established a new world record. Now for the first time in over 100 years his story can be retold along with a lengthy biography of his many literary achievements by noted Space writer and editor, Robert Godwin. It includes a special Introduction by John Griffith, grandson of George Griffith.

Living to Tell the Tale (Paperback, Vintage Intl): Gabriel Garcia Marquez Living to Tell the Tale (Paperback, Vintage Intl)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Translated by Edith Grossman
R470 R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Save R73 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

No writer alive today exerts the magical appeal of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Now, in the long-awaited first volume of his autobiography, he tells the story of his life from his birth in 1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as his finest fiction.
Here is Garcia Marquez's shimmering evocation of his childhood home of Aracataca, the basis of the fictional Macondo. Here are the members of his ebulliently eccentric family. Here are the forces that turned him into a writer. Warm, revealing, abounding in images so vivid that we seem to be remembering them ourselves, Living to Tell the Tale" "is a work of enchantment.

The Apprentice - My Life in the Kitchen (Paperback): Jacques Pepin The Apprentice - My Life in the Kitchen (Paperback)
Jacques Pepin
R526 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R89 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Places of Mind - A Life of Edward Said (Paperback): Timothy Brennan Places of Mind - A Life of Edward Said (Paperback)
Timothy Brennan
R401 R328 Discovery Miles 3 280 Save R73 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'An intimate portrait ... Critical, generous and heartfelt' Ahdaf Soueif, Guardian 'An intriguing account of an alluring but evasive character' Daily Telegraph Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places of Mind is the first comprehensive biography of Said, one of the most controversial and celebrated intellectuals of the 20th century. In Brennan's masterful work, Said, the pioneer of post-colonial studies, a tireless champion for his native Palestine, and an erudite literary critic, emerges as a self-doubting, tender, and eloquent advocate of literature's dramatic effects on politics and civic life. Places of Mind charts the intertwined routes of Said's intellectual development, revealing him as a study in opposites: a cajoler and strategist, a New York intellectual with a foot in Beirut, an orchestra impresario in Weimar and Ramallah, a raconteur on national television, a Palestinian negotiator at the State Department, and an actor in films in which he played himself. Brennan traces the Arab influences of Said's thinking along with his tutelage under Lebanese statesmen, off-beat modernist auteurs, and New York literati, as Said grew into a scholar whose influential writings changed the face of university life forever. With both intimidating brilliance and charm, Said turned these resources into a groundbreaking counter-tradition of radical humanism, set against the backdrop of techno-scientific dominance and religious war. With unparalleled clarity, Said gave the humanities a new authority in the age of Reaganism that continues today. Drawing on the testimonies of family, friends, students, and antagonists alike, and aided by FBI files, unpublished writing, and Said's drafts of novels and personal letters, Places of Mind captures Said's intellectual breadth and influence in an unprecedented, intimate, and compelling portrait of one of the great minds of the twentieth century.

Bright Star, Green Light - The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback): Jonathan Bate Bright Star, Green Light - The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback)
Jonathan Bate
R261 Discovery Miles 2 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES 'For awhile after you quit Keats,' Fitzgerald once wrote, 'All other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.' John Keats died two hundred years ago, in February 1821. F. Scott Fitzgerald defined a decade that began one hundred years ago, the Jazz Age. In this biography, prizewinning author Jonathan Bate recreates these two shining, tragic lives in parallel. Not only was Fitzgerald profoundly influenced by Keats, titling Tender is the Night and other works from the poet's lines, but the two lived with echoing fates: both died young, loved to drink, were plagued by tuberculosis, were haunted by their first love, and wrote into a new decade of release, experimentation and decadence. Luminous and vital, this biography goes through the looking glass to meet afresh two of the greatest and best-known Romantic writers in their twinned centuries.

A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes - The Public, the Private and the Secret (Paperback): Rodrigo Garcia A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes - The Public, the Private and the Secret (Paperback)
Rodrigo Garcia
R202 Discovery Miles 2 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The son of one of the greatest writers of our time-Nobel Prize winner and internationally best-selling icon Gabriel Garcia Marquez-remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss. "I find myself remembering that my father used to say that everyone has three lives: the public, the private, and the secret." On a weekday morning in March 2014, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century, came down with a cold. In this intimate and honest account on grief and death, Rodrigo Garcia not only contemplates his father's mortality and remarkable humanity, but also his mother's tremendous charm and tenderness. Mercedes Barcha, Gabo's constant companion and creative muse, was one of the foremost influences on his life and art. A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes is a revelatory portrait of a family coping with loss and a rich depiction of a son's love.

Tove Jansson - Work and Love (Paperback): Tuula Karjalainen Tove Jansson - Work and Love (Paperback)
Tuula Karjalainen; Translated by David McDuff 1
R538 R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Save R94 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Now in paperback, a beautifully illustrated account of of Tove Jansson's life and art The definitive biography of one of the most unique and beloved children's authors of the 20th century, the creator of the Moomins. Tove Jansson (1914-2001) led a long, colourful and productive life, impacting significantly the political, social and cultural history of 20th-century Finland. And while millions of children have grown up with Little My, Snufkin, Moomintroll and the many creatures of Moominvalley, the life of Jansson - daughter, friend and companion - is more touching still. This book weaves together the myriad qualities of a painter, author, illustrator, scriptwriter and lyricist from fraught beginnings through fame, war and heartbreak and ultimately to a peaceful end. Dr Tuula Karjalainen is a Finnish art historian and non-fiction writer who has previously worked as a director of the Helsinki Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki. As the author of Tove Jansson's biography, Karjalainen has become an expert not only on Jansson's writing and art but also on her decades of personal correspondence and journals.

A Thousand Laurie Lees - The Centenary Celebration of a Man and a Valley (Paperback): Adam Horovitz A Thousand Laurie Lees - The Centenary Celebration of a Man and a Valley (Paperback)
Adam Horovitz
R401 R329 Discovery Miles 3 290 Save R72 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is not a book about Laurie Lee, still less a biography. It is about the spirit of the man and the spirit of a place. A Thousand Laurie Lees is a poetic reassessment of the Slad Valley, a memoir from a different age rooted in the same idyllic landscape that inspired Cider with Rosie. A year after Lee's death in 1997, a handful of locals dressed up as him for an epic, drunken cycle ride right through the heart of Laurie Lee country. They called it The Night of a Thousand Laurie Lees and stopped off at all the pubs on the way, signing books, singing and carousing. Taking this as a starting point, poet Adam Horovitz reaches back through myth, memory and literature to explore Laurie Lee's impact on the Slad Valley and its people. Lyrically evoking his own childhood there sixty years after Lee, he explores the connections between family, the valley and learning to write, and examines what has changed since Lee's day and what remains the same.

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda - The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (Paperback): F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda - The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (Paperback)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald; Edited by Jackson R. Bryer, Cathy W. Barks; Introduction by Eleanor Lanahan 1
R596 R499 Discovery Miles 4 990 Save R97 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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