A Genealogy Of The Folsom Family John Folsom And His Descendants, 1615-1882
“”A Genealogy Of The Folsom Family: John Folsom And His Descendants, 1615-1882″” is a comprehensive historical record of the Folsom family lineage, beginning with the…
A Life Discarded 148 Diaries Found in a Skip
Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery. Written with his characteristic warmth, respect…
A Life Discarded 148 Diaries Found in the Trash
“An unorthodox investigative literary biography of a mysterious graphomaniac whose nearly 150 diaries are rescued from a dumpster by the author”–.…
Anthony Powell Dancing to the Music of Time
BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer andFinancial Times ‘A landmark biography’ The Times, Books of the Year…
Anthony Powell Dancing to the Music of Time
The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell–and takes us deep into the heart of twentieth-century…
At the Existentialist Café Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails With Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone De Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
A New York Times “Ten Best Books of 2016” From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the twentieth…
Diary of an Ordinary Schoolgirl
23 February Results rolling in! Algebra, 6th = 74%. Not bad. Latin = 55% Thrilled! History top = 85% smashing! Geography, disgusting, 2nd = 67%.…
Evelyn Waugh A Life Revisited
“On the fiftieth anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death, here is a completely fresh view of one of the most gifted–and fascinating–writers of our time Graham…
Every Third Thought On Life, Death and the Endgame
AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK‘Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful’ Kate Mosse In 1995,…
Happiness The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After, a Memoir
A shirt-grabbing love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices. Happiness begins with a charming courtship between…
Henry David Thoreau A Life
“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves…
Housman Country Into the Heart of England
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and Nominated for the 2017 PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography A captivating exploration of A. E. Housman…















