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A Voyage Round John Mortimer by Valerie Grove
Category: Biography Memoir
Novelist, playwright and barrister John Mortimer has lead an extraordinarily rich life, privately and professionally, much of it in the public eye: his own writings, from the play A Voyage Round My Father to the memoirs Clinging to the Wreckage and Murderers and Other Friends, have given his many fans p ...Show more
A Voyage Round John Mortimer by Valerie Grove
Category: Biography
Novelist, playwright and barrister John Mortimer has led an extraordinarily rich life, privately and professionally, much of it in the public eye. His own writings, from the play "A Voyage Round My Father" to the memoirs "Clinging to the Wreckage" and "Murderers and Other Friends", have given his many f ...Show more
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith; Valerie Grove (Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle, with her father who suffers from crippling writer's block, her glamorous but ...Show more
So Much To Tell by Valerie Grove
Category: Biography Memoir
Kaye Webb, a journalist with no publishing experience, burst into the world of children's books in 1961 and changed the face of children's publishing forever. Her child-like enthusiasm and shrewd business mind led her to become Puffin's most successful editor and the genius behind the Puffin Club, which ...Show more
So Much To Tell by Valerie Grove
Category: Biography Memoir
Kaye Webb, a journalist with no publishing experience, burst into the world of children's books in 1961 and changed the face of children's publishing forever. Her child-like enthusiasm and shrewd business mind led her to become Puffin's most successful editor and the genius behind the Puffin Club, which ...Show more
The Lives and Loves of Laurie Lee by Valerie Grove
Category: Biography
Millions of readers know and love him for his lyrical portraits of his life, from the moving and nostalgic tales of childhood and innocence found in the pages of Cider with Rosie, to the nomadic wanderings through Spain retold in As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, to his dramatic experiences fightin ...Show more
Voyage Round John Mortimer by GROVE VALERIE
Category: Biography
The tremendously dishy life of one of the most admired and lively literary figures today Novelist, playwright, and barrister Sir John Mortimer has led an extraordinarily rich and daring life, privately and professionally, much of it in the public eye. His own writings, from the play A Voyage Round My F ...Show more
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