It is 30 years since Hazel Holt’s biography; many more since David Cecil and Philip Larkin championed her novels. The surprise, perhaps, is that she is read more now than when she first published. PB is a fine writer herself, and her biography of this writer who was, in a sense, defined by rejection, is excellent.
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
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£25.00
Edition:Hardback978000832220515/04/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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Marvellously researched account of the Weimar Republic, Germany's first (and short-lived) democracy.
November 1918: The German Revolution
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The author of 'East West Street' examines the life of Otto von Wachter, the SS Governor of Galicia, who was indicted for mass murder in 1945 and went to ground in the Austrian Alps.
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A companion volume to his Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (pbk £25), tracing Bach's evolution as a composer and looking deeply into his creative process.
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Long anticipated voyage through the overlapping currents of nature, life and art. PH won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Leviathan, or The Whale; here he attempts to answer why Durer's art endu... read more
Albert and the Whale
Hardback £16.99