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Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our ...
Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biog...
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Notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and...
The key book for all time on Tom Stoppard: the biography of our greatest living playwright, by on...
Helen Edmunds, Representative Elder of the Court of the High Advisors, has devoted the last fourt...
Life has never been smoother for Eric Williams, who grew up with his abusive mother, the queen of...
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