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All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
Category: Biography
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality. Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, ...Show more
All Sorts of Lives - Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
Category: Biography
** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023** ** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023** 'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L. KENNEDY Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's career was ...Show more
Charlotte Bronte: A Fiery Heart by Claire Harman
Category: Biography
On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Bronte from a tragic figure into a modern heroine. Charlotte Bronte famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing childhood c ...Show more
Charlotte Bronte: A Life by Claire Harman
Category: Biography
Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors, watching five beloved siblings sicken and die, haunted by unrequited love: Charlotte Bronte's life has all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. Charlotte was a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force behind th ...Show more
Charlotte Bronte: A Life by Claire Harman
Category: Biography
Charlotte Bront famously lived her life in a parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and creative siblings. Claire Harman's biography transcends these melancholy facts to reveal a woman for whom duty and piety gave way to rebellion and ambition. Drawing on letters unavailable to previ ...Show more
Murder by the Book - A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime by Claire Harman
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain Ser.
One of the Guardian's '50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018' Early in the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a footman answered the door to a panic-stricken maid from a nearby house. Her elderly master, Lord William Russell, was lying in bed with his throat cut so deeply that the ...Show more
Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime by Claire Harman
Category: History
'A fascinating portrait of Victorian London' Observer'I devoured it in one sitting' Alison Weir'Excellent' Dan Snow Early on the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, the elderly Lord William Russell was discovered in bed with his throat cut so deeply that the head was almost s ...Show more
Murder by the Book - The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London by Claire Harman
Category: History
From the acclaimed biographer--the fascinating, little-known story of a Victorian-era murder that rocked literary London, leading Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and Queen Victoria herself to wonder: Can a novel kill? In May 1840, Lord William Russell, well known in London's highest social circles, ...Show more
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