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Anthony Powell by Hilary Spurling
Category: Biography
Peerless literary biographer Hilary Spurling turns her attention to Anthony Powell, an iconic figure of English letters. Equally notorious for his literary achievements and his lacerating wit, Powell famously authored the twelve-volume, twenty-five year magnum opus, A Dance to the Music of Time. This en ...Show more
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Life by Hilary Spurling
Category: Biography
BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times 'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year 'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books 'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Pros ...Show more
Burying The Bones : Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling
Category: Biography
This is a thrilling portrait of the extraordinary childhood of Pearl Buck, the now-forgotten bestselling Nobel Prize winning novelist. Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign, but felt as at home ...Show more
Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling
Category: Languages and Reference
Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign, but felt as at home as her Chinese companions. She ran free on the grave-littered grasslands behind her house, often stumbling across the tiny bones of ba ...Show more
Invitation to the Dance - A handbook to Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling
Category: Culture
"A unique reference book and an invaluable companion for even the most informed Anthony Powell fan. A Dance to the Music of Time is a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. As the reader cavorts through the 12-volume novel alongside the narrator Nicholas Jenkins, it soon becomes apparent that h ...Show more
John Russell: Australia's French Impressionist by Wayne Tunnicliffe; Hilary Spurling
Category: Art and Design
A beautiful, highly illustrated book published in conjunction with a major retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Australian artist John Russell (1858-1930) was an active and influential member of the French 19 th century avant‐garde, he was a close friend of Tom Roberts, Vin ce ...Show more
Matisse : The Life by Hilary Spurling
Category: Art and Design
HENRI MATISSE, one of the greatest innovators of twentieth-century painting, was an intensely private person.It was not until half a century after his death that Hilary Spurling's two-part biography cleared away the fog of inaccurate guesswork and gossip that obscured both the man and at times his work. ...Show more
Matisse the Master : A life of Henri Matisse - the conquest of colour, 1909-1954 by Hilary Spurling
Category: Art and Design
A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 This is the second and final volume of the first true biography of Henri Matisse. Until publication of The Unknown Matisse (Volume One), the few facts known about Matisse's life had been distorted by inaccuracy, misunderstanding and glaring gaps ...Show more
Matisse the Master (Volume 2) by Hilary Spurling
Category: Art and Design
The Life of Henri Matisse (Volume 2: 1909-1954) In this astounding book (winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year 2005) Hilary Spurling's fascinating exploration of Matisse's world uncovers the secret life of the artist, whose paintings shocked and infuriated his contemporaries while paving the way for ...Show more
The Girl from the Fiction Department by Hilary Spurling
Category: Biography Memoir
Sonia, the widow of George Orwell, was a woman of great beauty and power. Married just before he died, she became his heir and literary executor, then was blamed for exploiting his name and squandering his fortune. This biography refutes this view and seeks to rehabilitate her reputation.
The Girl from the Fiction Department:A portarit of Sonia Orwell by Hilary Spurling
Category: Biography Memoir
George Orwell's second wife was portrayed by many of her husband's biographers as a manipulative gold-digger who would stop at nothing to keep control of his legacy. But the truth about Sonia Orwell - the model for Julia in Nineteen Eighty-Four - was altogether different. Beautiful, intelligent and fier ...Show more