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A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Esteemed biographer and legendary literary editor Claire Tomalin's stunning memoir of a life in literature " An] intelligent and humane book...There is genuine appeal in watching this indomitable woman continue to chase the next draft of herself." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times In A Life of My ...Show more
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life.This enthralling memoir follows her through triumph and tragedy in about equal measure, from the disastrous marriage of her parents and the ...Show more
Charles Dickens : A Life by Claire Tomalin
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the Artful Dodger, Mr Pick ...Show more
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
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Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
"Charles Dickens" is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin. Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the cr ...Show more
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
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Category: Biography / Memoir
Claire Tomalin brings her extraordinary gifts of scholarship, fluent writing and empathy for her subjects to bear on one of our greatest, and most elusive, novelists. Widely acclaimed as the finest of Austen biographies, the book offers us "a brave, sharp-tongued character who fairly bounces off the pag ...Show more
Jane Austen : A Life by Claire Tomalin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the Austen family and their Hampshire neighbours, and of Jane's ...Show more
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
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Category: Biography / Memoir
Claire Tomalin's thrilling life of Pepys carried all before it when it was first published in 2002: it won the Whitbread Biography Award, and was then named Whitbread Book of the Year. Tomalin paints an unforgettable portrait of the man himself - diarist, civil servant, restless husband - who was presen ...Show more
The Invisible Woman (Film Tie-in) The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
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Category: Biography / Memoir
'This is the story of someone who - almost - wasn't there; who vanished into thin air. Her names, dates, family and experiences very nearly disappeared from the record for good . . . ' Claire Tomalin's multi-award-winning story of the life of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens is a remarkable work of biog ...Show more
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
This is the story of someone who - almost - wasn't there; who vanished into thin air. Her names, dates, family and experiences very nearly disappeared from the record for good...Claire Tomalin's multi-award-winning story of the relationship between Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens is a remarkable work o ...Show more
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, the father of science fiction, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H.G Wells' life shape a fantastic writer into a visionary? Claire Tomalin's remarkable and empathetic biography, focusing on HG Wells' early l ...Show more
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