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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley. "Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was." Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." ...
3) Agatha
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
This tantalizing tale posits what may have happened to the famed writer during her real-life 11-day disappearance in 1926. The world doesn't know and Dame Agatha never told.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her "nest" of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. When a friend she hasn't seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora (Lee?) to a weekend away in an...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Biography of the English author whose novels were a reflection of the social life and conventions of her time.
Here, firmly rooted in her own social setting for the first time, is the real Jane Austen - the shy woman willing to challenge convention, the woman of no pretensions who nevertheless called herself "formidable," a woman who could be frivolous and yet suffer from black depressions, who showed unfailing loyalty and, in the conduct of her...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction―above all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea―that has a passionate following today. And yet her own colorful life, including her early years on the Caribbean island of Dominica,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
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Nora no ha visto a Clare desde hace diez anos. No desde que Nora salio del instituto un dia para no volver jamas. Hasta que, inesperadamente, recibe una invitacion para la despedida de soltera de Clare. Un fin de semana en una casa en la profundidad del bosque. Es esta la oportunidad para Nora de recuperar la relacion con su mejor amiga? La ocasion de superar su pasado? Y sin embargo algo va a ir mal. Muy mal.
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Language
English
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Biographical Fiction
Historical Fiction Featuring Famous Authors
Historical Mysteries
Strong Female Characters
Historical Fiction Featuring Famous Authors
Historical Mysteries
Strong Female Characters
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"December 1926: England unleashes the largest manhunt in its history. The object of the search is not an escaped convict or a war criminal, but the missing wife of a WWI hero, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie. When her car is found wrecked, empty, and abandoned near a natural spring, the country is in a frenzy. Eleven days later, Agatha reappears, claiming amnesia. She provides no answers for her disappearance. That is...until she writes...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, “very complex.” Her highly autobiographical early work, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, to friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story.Life in a Cold Climate.
13) Agatha Christie
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the mystery writer shares insights into her Edwardian youth, marriages, relationship with her daughter, and mysterious disappearance for eleven days in 1926.
The author of the New York Times bestselling The Six now turns her formidable biographical skills to the greatest crime writer in the world, Agatha Christie. It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or Jane Austen's heroines Elizabeth and Jane Bennet became household names, the literary world was celebrating a different pair of sisters: Jane and Anna Maria Porter. The Porters-exact contemporaries of Jane Austen-were brilliant, attractive, self-made single women of polite reputation who between them published 26 books and achieved global fame. They socialized among the rich and famous, tried to...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Virginia Woolf: A Portrait blends recently unearthed documents, key primary sources, and personal interviews with Woolf's relatives and other acquaintances to render in unmatched detail the author's complicated relationship with her husband, Leonard; her father,...
Author
Series
Good thief's guide volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Retiring from his life of crime to write novels in Venice, gentleman thief Charlie is blackmailed into committing a dastardly deed in order to reclaim a prized rare book that has been stolen by a femme-fatale burglar.
Author
Language
English
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In this, his first memoir, le Carre is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Best of all, he gives listeners a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"After winning her local tennis club tournament, Scarlett Thomas, 41-year-old novelist, decided to dedicate a year of her life to tennis. At 12, Scarlett discovered her father was not the punk photographer who'd brought her up, but was in fact the man she previously knew as her godfather. At 14, she was sent to Mexico to connect with her terrifying grandmother. She was sent to a conservative boarding school in the middle of nowhere, her only link...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A revealing collection of personal letters written by the iconic author to his mother details his early childhood milestones, travels to Africa, Royal Air Force service, work in Washington D.C., literary achievements, and rise in Hollywood.
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