Recollections of life at the two universities over the past sixty years, from twenty-four distinguished alumni, including Raymond Massey, Antonia Fraser, Nina Burden, and Angus Wilson

Product Description: A Piece of Parkin A true story from the autobiography of Frances Hodgson Burnett

Portrays the life and career of the successful playwright who was never able to shake the public's idea that he only wrote for children

Product Description: This book contains edited versions and extracts from Gosse's essays on his friends, many of them the leading writers of his period, such as Tennyson, Rosetti, Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. The book is interesting not only because of Gosse's personal reminiscences about these respected and popular literary fitures, but it also makes Gosse's vast output available for the first time to today's reader...read more

A biography of the author of many novels and plays for both adults and children, including 'Little Lord Fauntleroy' and 'The Secret Garden'

Discusses A.A. Milne and Winnie-the-Pooh, with old photographs, illustrations, and original interviews, reviews, and articles

A collection of essays on the benefits and challenges of being, or living with, a writer includes Nadine Gordimer's reflections on living with herself, Margaret Drabble on her relationship with Malcolm Holroyd, and Paul Theroux's experiences with V. S. Naipaul.

Product Description: Author Ann Thwaite's eight great grandparents all arrived in New Zealand between 1858 and 1868. Their family names were Harrop, Sales, Campbell, Brown, Valentine, Maxwell, Jefcoate, and Oliver. In this book, Ann Thwaite looks at her grandparents' reasons for migration, at how they fared once they settled, and at their participation in gold-digging, farming, road-making, school-teaching, and surveying...read more

Product Description: Two People considers how a relationship can be made to work when the people concerned have little in common but the feelings that they shared when they fell in love. Although A.A. Milne is best known for his Winnie the Pooh stories, this novel displays his considerable skill and power as a writer of adult fiction...read more

A A Milne is one of the most successful English writers. His creations such as - Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Tigger and Piglet - have become some of the best-loved children's characters of all time. This biography describes the man behind Pooh in all his complexity, including his experiences at the Somme in 1916.