Literature » Biographies

  • Becoming Kathrine Talbot

    Becoming Kathrine Talbot

    $24.95

    A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented
    Ribbat, Christoph

    Christoph Ribbat’s remarkable book is a creative biography and literary retrieval of Kathrine Talbot, née Ilse Gross ... It will make everyone who reads it reconsider what they believe they know about the lives of refugees, and rush to...

  • Chapters of Accidents

    Chapters of Accidents

    $24.95

    A Writer’s Memoir
    Baron, Alexander 
    Colin Holmes and Nick Baron (Eds)

    Alexander Baron ... was the greatest British novelist of [World War II] and among the finest, most underrated, of the postwar period.
    John Williams, The Guardian

    ‘We have waited a long time for this war’s All Quiet on the Western Front’, wrote...

  • Echoes of a Lost Voice

    Echoes of a Lost Voice

    from $29.95

    Encounters with Primo Levi

    Calcagno, Giorgio; Poli, Gabriella

    Edited by: Angier, Carole

    New in paperback April 2020

    Primo Levi-chemist, Italian, Jew, survivor of Auschwitz-was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His masterpiece, If This Is a Man, is still one of the most widely read...