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Adams, Douglas 1952-2001 Christie, Agatha 1890-1976 Ecologists Great Britain Biography Lively, Penelope 1933- Mitford, Nancy 1904-1973 Novelists, English Novelists, English 20th century Biography Women novelists, English Women novelists, English 20th century Biography Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941Ray, Gordon Norton
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 RAYWorsley, Lucy
Summary: "Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHRISTIE, AGATHA WORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CHRISTIE WORGristwood, Sarah
Summary: "Interest in Beatrix Potter and her characters is undimmed, with the second Peter Rabbit film being released in summer 2021 and an exhibition at the V&A from February 2022, 'Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature'. Few people realise how extraordinary Beatrix Potter's own story is. She was a woman of contradictions. A sheltered Victorian daughter who grew into an astute modern businesswoman. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Trust Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POTTER, BEATRIX GRIThompson, Laura
Summary: Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, “very complex.” Her highly autobiographical early work, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, to friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story. Drawing from these, as well as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MITFORD, NANCY THOForsyth, Frederick
Summary: "From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever--his own"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORSYTH, FREDERICK FORLively, Penelope
Summary: "Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens, and an exploration of gardens in literature and of other writers and their gardens"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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Summary: Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait of this fascinating man; yet some aspects of his subject remained hidden. Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LE CARRE, JOHN SISThompson, Laura
Summary: "It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her sharp eye to Agatha Christie. Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, Christie's books still sell over four million copies each year--more than thirty years after her death--and it shows no signs of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CHRISTIE THOThompson, Laura
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Publisher / Publication Date: Review 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MITFORD, NANCY THOSummary: Shares the stories behind the creations of many of the mystery genre's most popular characters, revealing the inspirations for such examples as Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch and Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.087 LINForrester, Viviane.
Summary: Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Forrester's biography draws on revelations about the author that often remain buried and carefully applies them to a narrative of her development and influence. Virginia Woolf: A Portrait blends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOOLF, VIRGINIA WOOZackheim, Victoria
Summary: "In Private Investigations, twenty fan-favorite mystery writers share their first-person stories of grappling with mysteries they've personally encountered, at home and in the world. Caroline Leavitt regales us with a medical mystery, a time when she losther voice and doctors couldn't find a cure; Martin Limon travels back to his military stint in Korea to grapple with the chaos of war; Anne...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PRILively, Penelope
Summary: "The memory that we live with . . . is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been." Memory and history have been Penelope Lively's terrain in fiction over a career that has spanned five decades. But she has only rarely given readers a glimpse into her influences and formative years. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LIVELY, PENELOPE LIVSturrock, Donald.
Summary: This authorized biography, written by a BBC producer and director who knew Dahl and worked with the cooperation of the author's adult children and both wives--one of whom was film star Patricia Neal--covers the man and his reputation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAHL, ROALD STUKing, Dean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'BRIAN, PATRICK KINLewis, Cecil
Contents: Craining -- The Somme -- Testing -- Aerial fighting -- Home defence -- Overseas again -- Civil flying -- The voyage east -- Teaching the Chinese to fly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEWIS, CECIL LEWSherry, Norman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lester & Orpen Dennys Pub. 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 GRESherry, Norman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 SHESisman, Adam
Summary: "In this definitive biography Adam Sisman reveals the man behind the bestselling persona. In John le Carré, Sisman shines a spotlight on David Cornwell, an expert at hiding in plain sight. Of course, the pseudonym John le Carré has helped to keep the public at a distance. Sisman probes Cornwell's unusual upbringing, abandoned by his mother at the age of only five and raised by his con man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LE CARRE, JOHN SISGreene, Richard
Summary: "A vivid, deeply researched account of the tumultuous life of one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists, the author of The End of the Affair. Graham Greene lived a life as strange and compelling as those in his brilliant novels. A journalist and MI6 officer, Greene sought out the inner narratives of war and politics across the world; he witnessed the Second World War, the Vietnam War,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREENE, GRAHAM GRENicolson, Nigel.
Summary: Recalls the ties between his family and the novelist and childhood moments spent with her, discussing her walks around his ancestral home, the progression of her well-known works, and her philosophy towards women's issues and war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOOLF, VIRGINIA NICSherry, Norman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 SHESimpson, M. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Justin, Charles & Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, DOUGLAS SIMSmith, Sean
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michael O'Mara 2001