Everybody knows Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson's best-loved character. But what do they know about Jacqueline herself? In this fascinating book, discover ... how Jacky played with paper dolls like April in Dustbin Baby ... how she dealt with an unpredictable father like Prue in…
In this charming but powerful memoir, Penelope Lively reports from beyond the horizon of old age. She describes what old age feels like for those who have arrived there and considers the implications of this new demographic. She looks at the context of a life and times, the hist…
An intimate portrait of the acclaimed twentieth-century writer discusses how her personal experiences inspired her later-in-life writing career and the creations of such award-winning novels as "The Gate of Angels" and "Offshore."
The acclaimed biographer of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf gives us a vivid, intimate, and critically acute portrait of one of the finest and most understated novelists of the twentieth century. Penelope Fitzgerald was a great English writer-many say the greatest in recent yea…