"As full of excitement and the unexpected as his world-famous, best-selling books, Roald Dahl's tales of his own childhood are completely fascinating and fiendishly funny"-- Cover back.

"Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so brilliantly that her friend Philip Larkin announced her the era's own Jane Austen. But who was Barbara Pym and why was the life of this English writer - one of the greatest chroniclers of the human heart - so defined by rejection, both in her writing and in love?"--Publisher's description.

'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth decade, having for the moment nothing much else to write, I am having a go at it. Good luck to me.' So begins this extraordinary book, a collection of diary pieces that Jan Morris wrote for the Financial Times over the course of 2017. A former soldier and journalist, and one of the great chroniclers of the world for over half a century, she writes here...

"A luminous, wise, and joyful insight into what really matters at the end of a long life, from the beloved author of the award-winning Somewhere Towards the End. What will you remember if you live to be 100? Diana Athill charmed readers with her prize-winning memoir Somewhere Towards the End, which transformed her into an unexpected literary star. Now, on the eve of her ninety-eighth birthday, Athill has written a sequel every bit as unsentimental,...

A biography of the Bard written especially for children. It profiles the life and times of Shakespeare, peppered with quotes from plays he wrote, and includes short synopses of the more famous ones.

Presents conversations with J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, in which she shares information about her childhood, her school years, and the path she took to become a bestselling writer.

Presents the life and work of the English playwright William Shakespeare and provides information about the theater of sixteenth-century London.

A "dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world"--

Author Salman Rusdie details his life after the publication of his novel, "The Satanic Verses," discussing the death threats he received and how he was forced to go underground for more than nine years, during which he used the name Joseph Anton.

"C. S. Lewis. The very name has an almost mystical ring to his millions of fervent readers. Yet the name C.S. Lewis means very different things to his vast and diverse readership. To Christians, he is the twentieth century's foremost Christian apologist, a writer who explores with intense personal conviction the dilemma of religious faith in the modern world. To readers of fantasy and science fiction, he is the beloved author of The Chronicles of...