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by Colm Toibin


  Jane Austen 1997

  Jenny Uglow

  Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories 1993

  Poetry

  TWENTY OF THE BEST COLLECTIONS PUBLISHED SINCE 1950

  John Ashbery

  Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 1977

  W. H. Auden

  City Without Walls 1969

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Complete Poems, 1927–1979 1986

  Paul Durcan

  A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems 1993

  Thom Gunn

  My Sad Captains 1961

  Seamus Heaney

  Field Work 1979

  Anthony Hecht

  Millions of Strange Shadows 1977

  Geoffrey Hill

  King Log 1968

  Ted Hughes

  The Hawk in the Rain 1957

  Philip Larkin

  The Whitsun Weddings 1964

  Robert Lowell

  Robert Lowell’s Poems: A Selection 1974

  Derek Mahon

  The Snow Party 1974

  Les Murray

  The Vernacular Republic 1982

  Howard Nemerov

  The Western Approaches 1975

  Sylvia Plath

  Ariel 1965

  Adrienne Rich

  The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New

  1950–1984 1984

  Theodore Roethke

  Collected Poems 1966

  Anne Sexton

  Complete Poems 1981

  R. S. Thomas

  Song at the Year’s Turning 1955

  Derek Walcott

  The Star-Apple Kingdom 1979

  Autobiographies and memoirs by novelists

  chosen in this book

  Chinua Achebe

  Home and Exile 2000

  Martin Amis

  Experience 2000

  Kingsley Amis

  Memoirs 1991

  J. G. Ballard

  Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton 2008

  Julian Barnes

  Nothing to be Frightened of 2008

  Sybille Bedford

  Quicksands: A Memoir 2005

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Seven Winters 1942

  Bowen’s Court 1942

  John Cheever

  The Journals of John Cheever 1991

  Agatha Christie

  Autobiography 1977

  Joan Didion

  The Year of Magical Thinking 2005

  Isak Dinesen

  Out of Africa 1937

  Anthony Burgess

  Little Wilson and Big God 1987

  You’ve Had Your Time 1990

  John Fowles

  The Journals Volume 1 1949–1965 2003

  The Journals Volume 2 1965–1990 2006

  Janet Frame

  To the Is-Land 1983

  An Angel at My Table 1984

  The Envoy from Mirror City 1985

  Graham Greene

  A Sort of Life 1971

  Ways of Escape 1980

  Shirley Hazzard

  Greene on Capri: A Memoir 2000

  Roy Heath

  Shadows Round the Moon: Caribbean Memoirs 1990

  Joseph Heller

  Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here 1998

  Ernest Hemingway

  A Moveable Feast 1964

  P. D. James

  Time to be in Earnest 2000

  Margaret Laurence

  Dance on the Earth 1990

  Rosamond Lehmann

  The Swan in the Evening 1967

  Doris Lessing

  Under My Skin, Volume 1 of my Autobiography 1994

  Walking in the Shade, Volume 2 of my Autobiography 1996

  David Lodge

  The Year of Henry James 2006

  Mary McCarthy

  Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood 1957

  How I Grew 1987

  Intellectual Memoirs, New York 1936–1938 1992

  John McGahern

  Memoir 2005

  David Malouf

  12 Edmonstone Street 1985

  Frank Moorhouse

  Martini: A Memoir 2005

  R. K. Narayan

  My Days 1975

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Speak, Memory 1951

  (new edition 1966)

  Sylvia Plath

  The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1982

  Anthony Powell

  Infants of the Spring 1978

  Messengers of the Day 1978

  Faces in My Time 1980

  The Strangers All Are Gone 1982

  Published as one volume: To Keep the Ball Rolling 1983

  V. S. Pritchett

  The Cab at the Door 1968

  Midnight Oil 1971

  Philip Roth

  The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography 1989

  Frank Sargeson

  Once is Enough 1972

  More Than Enough 1975

  Never Enough 1978

  Published as one volume: Sargeson 1981

  Vikram Seth

  Two Lives 2005

  Alan Sillitoe

  Life Without Armour 1995

  Kushwant Singh

  Truth, Love and a Little Malice 2002

  Wole Soyinka

  Ake: The Years of Childhood

  Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: A Memoir 1946–1965

  Muriel Spark

  Curriculum Vitae – Autobiography 1992

  Robert Stone

  Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties 2007

  William Styron

  Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness 1991

  William Trevor

  Excursions in the Real World: Memoirs 1994

  John Updike

  Self-Consciousness: Memoirs 1989

  Evelyn Waugh

  A Little Learning 1964

  Eudora Welty

  One Writer’s Beginnings 1984

  Tobias Wolff

  This Boy’s Life 1989

  In Pharoah’s Army 1995

  Literary biographies of novelists chosen in this book

  Chinua Achebe

  Christophe Tshikala Kamgaji

  Chinua Achebe: A Novelist and A Portrait of His Society 2004

  Kingsley Amis

  Zachary Leader

  The Life of Kingsley Amis 2006

  James Baldwin

  James Campbell

  Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin 1992

  Samuel Beckett

  Anthony Cronin

  Samuel Beckett. The Last Modernist 1996

  James Knowlson

  Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett 1996

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Victoria Glendinning

  Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer 1977

  William Burroughs

  Ted Morgan

  Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William Burroughs 1988

  Raymond Chandler

  Tom Hiney

  Raymond Chandler: A Biography 1997

  Bruce Chatwin

  Susannah Clapp

  With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer 1997

  Nicholas Shakespeare

  Bruce Chatwin 1999

  John Cheever

  Scott Donaldson

  John Cheever: A biography 1988

  Blake Bailey

  Cheever: A life 2009

  Agatha Christie

  Laura Thompson

  Agatha Christie: The Biography of Agatha Christie 2004

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Hilary Spurting

  Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884–1919 1974

  The Secrets of a Woman’s Heart: The Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1920–1969 1984

  Robertson Davies

  Judith Skelton Grant

  Robertson Davies: Man of Myth 1994

  Isak Dinesen

  Judith Thurman

  Isak Dinesen: The Life of A Story Teller 1986

  Daphne du Maurier

  Margaret Forst
er

  Daphne du Maurier 1993

  Ralph Ellison

  Lawrence Jackson

  Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius 2002

  J. G. Farrell

  Lavinia Greacen

  J. G. Farrell: The Making of A Writer 1999

  William Faulkner

  Frederick R. Karl

  William Faulkner: American Writer 1989

  John Fowles

  Eileen Warburton

  John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds 2004

  William Golding

  John Carey

  William Golding, A Life 2009

  Nadine Gordimer

  Ronald Suresh Roberts

  No Cold Kitchen: A Biography of Nadine Gordimer 2005

  Alasdair Gray

  Rodge Glass

  Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography 2008

  Henry Green

  Jeremy Treglown

  Romancing: The Life and Times of Henry Green 2001

  Graham Greene

  Norman Sherry

  The Life of Graham Greene Vol 1: 1904–1939 1989

  The Life of Graham Greene Vol 2: 1939–1955 1995

  The Life of Graham Greene Vol 3: 1956–1991 2004

  Patrick Hamilton

  Sean French

  Patrick Hamilton 1993

  Ernest Hemingway

  Carlos Baker

  Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story 1969

  Georgette Heyer

  Jane Aiken Hodge

  The Private World of Georgette Heyer

  B. S. Johnson

  Jonathan Coe

  Like A Fiery Elephant: A Life of B. S. Johnson 2005

  Jack Kerouac

  Barry Miles

  Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats 1998

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Selina Hastings

  Rosamond Lehmann: A Life 2002

  Norman Mailer

  Peter Manso

  Mailer: His Life and Times 1989

  Mary McCarthy

  Frances Kiernan

  Seeing Mary Plane: A Life of Mary McCarthy

  Carson McCullers

  Virginia Spencer

  Carr The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers 1975

  Olivia Manning

  Neville Braybrooke and June Braybrooke

  Olivia Manning: A Life 2004

  William Maxwell

  Barbara A. Burckhardt

  William Maxwell: A Literary Life 2005

  Brian Moore

  Patricia Craig

  Brian Moore: A Biography 2003

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Brian Boyd

  Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years 1990

  Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years 1991

  V. S. Naipaul

  Patrick French

  The World is What it Is: The Authorised Biography of V. S. Naipaul 2008

  John O’Hara

  Frank Mac Shane

  The Life of John O’Hara 1987

  Sylvia Plath

  Janet Malcolm

  The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes 1994

  Jacqueline Rose

  The Haunting of Sylvia Plath 1991

  Katherine Anne Porter

  John Givner

  Katherine Anne Porter: A Life 1990

  Anthony Powell

  Hilary Spurling

  Invitation to the Dance: A Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time 1976

  Jean Rhys

  Carol Angier

  Jean Rhys: Life and Work 1990

  Lillian Pizzichini

  The Blue Hour 2009

  Frank Sargeson

  Michael King

  Frank Sargeson: A Life 1995

  Paul Scott

  Hilary Spurling

  Paul Scott: A Life 1990

  Christina Stead

  Hazel Rowley

  Christina Stead: A Biography 1993

  John Steinbeck

  Jay Parini

  John Steinbeck: A Biography 1995

  Jackson J. Benson

  The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography 1989

  Peter Taylor

  Hubert Horton McAlexander

  Peter Taylor: A Writer’s Life 2004

  John Kennedy Toole

  George Hardy

  Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole 2001

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Claire Harman

  Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography 1989

  Evelyn Waugh

  Selina Hastings

  Evelyn Waugh: A Biography 1995

  Eudora Welty

  Paul Binding

  The Still Moment: Eudora Welty, Portrait of a Writer 1994

  Patrick White

  David Marr

  Patrick White: A Life 1991

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Frances Donaldson

  P. G. Wodehouse: The Authorised Biography 1992

  Robert McCrum

  P. G. Wodehouse: A Life 2004

  Literary Prizewinners

  BOOKER PRIZE

  Author must be a citizen of the Commonwealth, Pakistan, or the Republic of Ireland. No short stories or novellas. No English translation. Formerly named the Booker McConnell Prize.

  1969 Something to Answer For P. H. Newby

  1970 The Elected Member Bernice Rubens

  1971 In a Free State V. S. Naipaul

  1972 G John Berger

  1973 The Siege of Krishnapur J. G. Farrell

  1974 The Conservationist Nadine Gordimer

  Holiday Stanley Middleton

  1975 Heat and Dust Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

  1976 Saville David Storey

  1977 Staying On Paul Scott

  1978 The Sea, the Sea Iris Murdoch

  1979 Offshore Penelope Fitzgerald

  1980 Rites of Passage William Golding

  1981 Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie

  1982 Schindler’s Ark Thomas Keneally

  (US: Schindler’s List)

  1983 Life and Times of Michael K J. M. Coetzee

  1984 Hôtel du Lac Anita Brookner

  1985 The Bone People Keri Hulme

  1986 The Old Devils Kingsley Amis

  1987 Moon Tiger Penelope Lively

  1988 Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey

  1989 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro

  1990 Possession A. S. Byatt

  1991 The Famished Road Ben Okri

  1992 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje

  Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth

  1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle

 

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