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Miranda Seymour
A beautifully written and hugely acclaimed account of a fascinating twentieth-century life: Helene Delangle, also known as Helle Nice, dancer, lover – and record-breaking racing driver.
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'A kind of blissography, teeming with bon mots' Sunday Times
"Enthralling.... Seymour powerfully evokes the world from which Rhys never really escaped, one of prejudice, abuse, and abuse's shamefaced offspring, complicity." -James Wood, The New Yorker
An intimate, profoundly moving…
Iris Murdoch
Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive…
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Robert Graves
Account of life in the trenches from the author of I, Claudius, and read by Martin Jarvis
Augustus John, T S Eliot, D H Lawrence, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf and W B Yeats enjoyed Ottoline Morrell hospitality and she was Bertrand Russell’s mistress for many years. This…
A masterful portrait of two remarkable women, revealing how two turbulent lives were always haunted by the dangerously enchanting, quicksilver spirit of that extraordinary father whom Ada never knew: Lord…
Miranda Seymour tells the remarkable story of England’s centuries of profound connection and rivalry with Germany. Her vibrant and heart-breaking history-told through the lives of princes and painters, soldiers and…
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An intimate, profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea.
Seymour’s wonderful memoir is a kind of posthumous conversation with her father. The end is particularly powerful. What a gripping, poignant, dramatic, emotionally searing memoir.–Joyce Carol Oates. 8-page b&w photo…
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Mary Shelley gracefully moves through the dramatic life of the woman behind history’s…
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Jean Rhys
Lucid, exact, and swift…. An essential part of the [Rhys] record. -V. S. Naipaul, New York Review of Books
Seymour Miranda
Experiencing a state of robust sexual vitality is a fundamental characteristic of human nature. The sacral chakra is our second chakra. The energy center is responsible for regulating our sexual…
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