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War affects life writing and lives affect war writing. The traditional forms of life writing memoir, biography, letters, diaries buckle under the strain of war. War writing has fewer traditional forms but exists at a similar extreme. The eight cha...

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Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places. W.H. Auden, dedication to Stephen Spender, 1932 Stephen Spender wrote almost a million words of journal entries between his September Journal in 1939 and his d...

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Private faces in public placesAre wiser and nicerThan public faces in private places. W.H. Auden, dedication to Stephen Spender, 1932Stephen Spender wrote almost a million words of journal entries between his September Journal in 1939 and his deat...

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War affects life writing and lives affect war writing. The traditional forms of life writing memoir, biography, letters, diaries buckle under the strain of war. War writing has fewer traditional forms but exists at a similar extreme. The eight cha...

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War affects life writing and lives affect war writing. The traditional forms of life writing-memoir, biography, letters, diaries-buckle under the strain of war. War writing has fewer traditional forms but exists at a similar extreme. The eight cha...

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War affects life writing and lives affect war writing. The traditional forms of life writing-memoir, biography, letters, diaries-buckle under the strain of war. War writing has fewer traditional forms but exists at a similar extreme. The eight cha...

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When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeplessness, fear and loss. But for Graham Greene and ...

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When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeplessness, fear and loss. But for Graham Greene and ...

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Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2017 As the Second World War neared its conclusion, Germany was a nation reduced to rubble: 3.6 million German homes had been destroyed leaving 7.5 million people homeless; an apocalyptic landscape of flat...

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As the Second World War neared its conclusion, Germany was a nation reduced to rubble: 3.6 million German homes had been destroyed leaving 7.5 million people homeless; an apocalyptic landscape of flattened cities and desolate wastelands. In May 19...

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Her intensity and intimacy are engaging Blake Morrison, Guardian A lovely, urgent, serious book' Tessa Hadley Refreshing and unexpected Daisy Hay, Financial Times Brilliantly interweaving literary criticism, biography and memoir, Look! We Hav...

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Lara Feigel listens to birds outside her window - their circling, strident calls - and thinks of D.H. Lawrence. It is the spring of 2020, and as the pandemic takes hold she locks down with her partner, her two children, and that most mercurial of ...

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''A fascinating mix of literary criticism, cultural history and memoir ? Highly enjoyable'' Sunday Times How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Rereading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, Lara Feigel discove...

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A fascinating mix of literary criticism, cultural history and memoir Highly enjoyable Sunday Times How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Rereading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, Lara Feigel discovered th...

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Down and Out in Paris and London was George Orwell?s first published book. It is at once a very personal account, and a vivid exposé of hard lives weighed down by poverty in France and England between the wars. Part of the Macmillan Collector?s L...

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'A very funny and brilliant book. Feigel does a thorough and virtuosic job of describing the dilemmas of contemporary middle-class women' Rachel Cusk Lara Feigel's first novel, The Group, is a fiercely intelligent, revealing novel a...

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'A very funny and brilliant book. Feigel does a thorough and virtuosic job of describing the dilemmas of contemporary middle-class women' Rachel Cusk The five of them - Stella, Priss, Kay, Helena and Polly - met at university, their live...

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"A delectable treasure trove to sniff and savour."-Fay Wheldon The fragrant and the fetid, the light and the literary are given equal weight in this fascinating assembly of writings on the subject of smell, penned by authors from Catullu...

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Modernism on Sea brings together writing by some of today's most exciting seaside critics, curators, filmmakers and scholars, and takes the reader on a journey around the coast of Britain to explore the rich artistic and cultural heritage that can...

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Modernism on Sea brings together writing by some of today's most exciting seaside critics, curators, fi lmmakers and scholars, and takes the reader on a journey around the coast of Britain to explore the rich artistic and cultural heritage that ca...

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Modernism on Sea brings together writing by some of today's most exciting seaside critics, curators, filmmakers and scholars, and takes the reader on a journey around the coast of Britain to explore the rich artistic and cultural heritage that can...

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Modernism on Sea brings together writing by some of today's most exciting seaside critics, curators, filmmakers and scholars, and takes the reader on a journey around the coast of Britain to explore the rich artistic and cultural heritage that can...

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