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Mark Bostridge
From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Ad?le Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love - and the writer who chased after her a century…
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Francis Kilvert
This diary, which paints a unique picture of country life in mid-Victorian times, has come to be recognized as a classic. It was kept from January 1870 until March 1879…
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War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, broke out when people were least prepared for it. A theatrical diva prepares to shock her audience, while an English poet in…
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Biography is well recognised as a peculiarly British vice. Lives for Sale is an anthology of essays by some of the best biographers now writing in Britain. They tell of…
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These letters, written between 1913 to 1918, between Vera Brittain and four young men - her fiance (Roland Leighton), her brother Edward, and their close friends, Victor Richardson and Geoffrey…
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The definitive biography of one of Britain’s most iconic heroines, reissued for the 200th anniversary
Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been misrepresented and…
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As the much anticipated film adaptation of Vera Brittain s First World War testimony Testament of Youth arrives in cinemas in January 2015, this new book from Mark Bostridge (her…
Mark Bostridge,Paul Berry
* An authoritative and immensely readable biography of the remarkable Vera Brittain * ‘Two men writing with rare sympathy about an ardent feminist … beautifully written and fastidiously researched’ Sue…
To tie-in with the new collection of letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby - Between Friends - reissue of the definitive biographer of the author of Testament of Youth…
Vera Brittain
* A collection of poetry and essays on war by one of the most prominent women writers from that period, author of the famous TESTAMENT OF YOUTH. A commemorative edition…
* The bestselling and moving collection of letters to Vera Brittain from a lost generation - four young men who lost their lives in the great war
The wonderful biography of Winifred Holtby and her friendship with Vera Brittain, now reissued as a Virago Modern Classic
