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    Iris: The Life of Iris Murdoch

    Peter J. Conradi

    There would be no need to complain of literary biographies…if they were all as good as Conradi’s. -John Updike, The New Yorker

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    A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson

    Peter J. Conradi

    An untold story of love, idealism and courage in the Second World War

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    Family Business

    Peter J. Conradi

    Family Business is Peter J. Conradi’s multi-stranded memoir. It explores his Jewish background, his rebellious youth, his sexuality, and his relationship with the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and her…

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    Iris Murdoch: A Life: The Authorized Biography

    Peter J. Conradi

    A biography of one of the century’s greatest English writers and an icon to a generation.

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    The Saint and Artist: A Study of the Fiction of Iris Murdoch

    Peter J. Conradi

    Published to coincide with his biography of Iris Murdoch, Peter Conradi’s critical appreciation of her work is reissued in a revised and updated new edition, with a foreword by John…

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    A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs

    Peter J. Conradi,Peter J. Conradi

    A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs is a wonderful and witty homage to man’s most faithful friend.

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    On Grief: Voices through the ages on how to manage death and loss

    Peter J. Conradi

    A collection of thoughts and reflections on how to face the enormity of death from the world’s greatest writers, poets and thinkers, from Seneca to Tolstoy.

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    Angus Wilson

    Peter J. Conradi

    This book explores Sir Angus Wilson’s many faces as a writer and investigates the ways in which his literature depicts people who undergo a crisis and/or collapse of self-belief, and…

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    Hot Dogs and Cocktails: When FDR Met King George VI at Hyde Park on Hudson

    Peter J. Conradi

    A book about the story behind the historic meeting between Franklin D Roosevelt and King George VI on the eve of the Second World War, now the subject of a…

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    A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs

    Peter Conradi,Peter J. Conradi

    A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs is a wonderful and witty homage to man’s most faithful friend.

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    A Writer at War: Letters and Diaries of Iris Murdoch 1939-45

    Peter Conradi,Peter J. Conradi

    Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War is a fascinating private memoir of one of the great women writers and thinkers of the 20th century and a remarkable historical document of…

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    At the Bright Hem of God: Radnorshire Pastoral

    Peter J. Conradi

    At the Bright Hem of God is a scholarly, lyrical, autobiographical guide to the March. Conradi is witty, dreamy and gossipy by turn. Ronald Blythe, TLS

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    Iris Murdoch, a Writer at War: Letters and Diaries, 1939-1945

    Previous ed. published: London: Short, 2010, under title: Writer at war.

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