In the rural Australia of the fifties where John Baxter grew up, reading books was
disregarded with suspicion, owning and collecting them with utter incomprehension. Despite this, by the age of eleven Baxter had 'collected' his first book - The ...
The autobiography of New Zealand's most significant writerNew Zealand's preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the
skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathered here for the first time in a single volume. From a ...
As well as telling for the first time the story of Hewitt Henry Rayner -
probably the 20th century's most prolific drypoint etcher - this biography also provides fresh insights into the personality of Walter Sickert, observed during a friendship ...
When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already
had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him-not ...
The works of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), one of England's most gifted short story writers, have
influenced over eight decades of writers. A friend to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Bertrand Russell, Mansfield left a literary legacy collected in The ...
A best-selling classic around the world, Clive James’s hilarious memoir has long been unavailable in
the United States.Before James Frey famously fabricated his memoir, Clive James wrote a refreshingly candid book that made no claims to be accurate, precise, or ...
