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Cover of Invitations to the World

Invitations to the World

by Richard Peck

Published 30 September 2002
Children


Cover of The Last Days of Heinrich Heine

The Last Days of Heinrich Heine

by Camille Selden

Published 3 April 2013
Adult


Cover of Dickens and Travel

Dickens and Travel

by Hawksley, Lucinda

Published 15 June 2022
Adult

From childhood, Charles Dickens was fascinated by tales from other countries and other cultures, and he longed to see the world. In Dickens and Travel, Lucinda Hawksley looks at the journeys made by the author - who is also her great great great grandfather. Although Dickens is usually perceived as a London author, in the 1840s he whisked his family away to live in Italy for year, and spent several months in Switzerland. Some years later he took up residence in Paris and Boulogne (where he live...


Cover of Confessions of An English Opium-Eater, and Suspiria De Profundis. by Thomas De Quincey.

Confessions of An English Opium-Eater, and Suspiria De Profundis. by Thomas De Quincey.

by Thomas de Quincey

Published 13 September 2006
Adult


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Charles Lamb

by Barry Cornwall

Published 1 November 2003
Adult


Cover of A Real Emotional Girl

A Real Emotional Girl

by Tanya Chernov

Published 1 September 2012
Adult

A Real Emotional Girl tells the true story of young Tanya, growing up in the wonderland of her family's summer camp. At sixteen, this idyllic life is interrupted when she must face her father's sudden illness. Tanya, her mother, and two brothers find themselves cramped in a tiny cabin in a tiny town in northern Wisconsin in the dead of winter. There they wait for her father to die of cancer. Separated from friends and civilization, Tanya has only her fears and uncertainty for company. At the ag...


Cover of Stephen King Spills the Beans

Stephen King Spills the Beans

by Tim Underwood and Stephen King

Published 1 February 2008
Adult


Cover of The Real Life Mary Poppins

The Real Life Mary Poppins

by Lifecaps and Paul Brody

Published 25 January 2013
Adult


Cover of I'm Wild Again

I'm Wild Again

by Helen Gurley Brown

Published 1 February 2000
Adult


Cover of Anais Nin, Art & Artists

Anais Nin, Art & Artists

Published 1 March 1987


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A Memoir

by Tim Pat Coogan

Published 23 September 2008
Adult

Ireland's best-known journalist, broadcaster, historian and bestselling biographer Tim Pat Coogan has not only reported the news - he's been the news. Through the Irish Press, where he served as editor for twenty years, he is renowned for bringing social and political change to Ireland. He went on to play a vital role in bringing the IRA/Sinn Fein to the peace talks table, and has always been uniquely placed to comment authoritatively - if not controversially - on all aspects of Irish current af...


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The Doctor and the Detective

by Martin Booth

Published 1 February 2000
Adult


Cover of Herman Melville (1929)

Herman Melville (1929)

by Lewis Mumford

Published 31 March 2003
Adult


Cover of The Life of Goethe Volume 2

The Life of Goethe Volume 2

by George Henry Lewes

Published 9 January 2012
Adult


Cover of Lives of the Poets (Addison, Savage, Swift)

Lives of the Poets (Addison, Savage, Swift)

by Samuel Johnson

Published 1 May 2004
Adult


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Henry Lawson

by Manning Clark

Published 31 August 1991
Adult


Cover of Talbot Mundy, Philosopher of Adventure

Talbot Mundy, Philosopher of Adventure

by Brian Taves

Published 26 October 2005
Adult

This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one of the pioneers of the fantasy and adventure genre. Less celebrated than his contemporaries Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, Mundy was no less gifted when it came to the literary portrayal of faraway lands. He was one of the first western writers to show an appreciation of eastern culture, and his writing became an outlet for his radical ideas on religion and philosophy. At the age...


Cover of Robert Burns

Robert Burns

by Principal Shairp

Published 25 April 2003
Adult


Cover of Guilty Hearts

Guilty Hearts

by Caroline Giammanco

Published 27 April 2017
Adult


Cover of Tears And Triumphs Of A New Author

Tears And Triumphs Of A New Author

by Robert Thornhill

Published 17 November 2010
Adult


Cover of The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield

The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield

by Frank Holcomb Mason

Published 25 July 2007
Adult


Cover of The Life Of Stephen A. Douglas

The Life Of Stephen A. Douglas

by James W Sheahan

Published 10 September 2010
Adult


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Samuel Lover

by Andrew James Symington

Published 11 April 2003
Adult


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Wheels within Wheels

by Dervla Murphy

Published 20 September 1979

A first-hand account of the life of travel writer Dervla Murphy in which she tells of her early life in Lismore, Co. Waterford, in her rather unusual household. Her father was the county librarian and her mother a chronic invalid. An only child, Dervla was allowed from the age of seven to freely roam on her own. At ten, she cycled ten miles to a local mountain, climbed it, then lost herself on the way down, and was forced to stay out all night - much to the distress of her parents. Living in a h...


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