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Matthew Dennison
From one of our finest literary biographers comes a brilliant biography of Roald Dahl: the much-loved author and creator of countless iconic literary characters. Roald Dahl was one of the…
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A moving biography of Kenneth Grahame, author of the children’s classic The Wind in the Willows, and of the vision of English pastoral life that inspired it.
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A beautifully written and produced celebration of the life of Beatrix Potter, one of the nation’s best-loved authors.
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A concise life of Roald Dahl - much-loved author and creator of numerous iconic literary characters.
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The magisterial life of the woman whose family’s personal intrigues, romances and political rivalries have shaped much of post-war British history.
Beatrix Potter is one of the world’s bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status…
An evocative telling of the life of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s last-born child, and of a sometimes fraught royal mother-daughter relationship.
A moving biography of Kenneth Grahame, author of the children’s classic The Wind in the Willows, and of the vision of English pastoral life that inspired it. During his regular…
The story of Kenneth Grahame, author of the children’s classic Wind in the Willows, and of the vision of English pastoral that inspired it.
Aristocrat, literary celebrity, ‘Rose Queen’, devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast - Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new…
A fresh, witty, accessible life of Queen Victoria. Not since Lytton Strachey has the irony, contradictions and influence of this Queen been treated with such flourish or biographical insight.
‘A brilliant study of a brilliant woman’ LUCY WORSLEY History has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach, yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some…
A brand-new biography of one of the most extraordinary figures of Antiquity.
An unforgettable depiction of the Roman empire at the height of its power and reach, and an elegantly sensational retelling of the lives and times of the twelve Caesars
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First published in Great Britain by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers –Title page verso.
Aristocrat, literary celebrity, “Rose Queen’, devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast - Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new…
Matthew Dennison (Associate Features Editor)
An unforgettable depiction of the Roman empire at the height of its power and reach, and an elegantly sensational retelling of the lives and times of the ‘twelve Caesars’.
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