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  • Electric Spark

    The Enigma of Dame Muriel

    by Frances Wilson ...
    Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyShort-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionThe award-winning biographer Frances Wilson presents an exhilarating new look at Muriel Spark, a consummate artist of the twentieth century.“Is the story fact? Is it fiction? It is what it is,” said Muriel Spark.Muriel Spark was a puzzle, and so too are her books. She dealt in ... Read more

    Was $17.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Burning Man

    The Trials of D. H. Lawrence

    by Frances Wilson ...
    Shortlisted for the James Tait Black PrizeAn electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his difficult middle years"Never trust the teller," wrote D. H. Lawrence, "trust the tale." Everyone who knew him told stories about Lawrence, and Lawrence told stories about everyone he knew. He also told stories about himself, again and again: a pioneer of autofiction, no writer ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Guilty Thing

    A Life of Thomas De Quincey

    by Frances Wilson ...
    National Book Critics Circle Award, Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistNew York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian Best Books of 2016Thomas De Quincey was an obsessive. He was obsessed with Wordsworth and Coleridge, whose Lyrical Ballads provided the script to his life, and by the idea of sudden... ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Electric Spark

    The Enigma of Dame Muriel

    by Frances Wilson ...
    Narrated by Sara Vickers ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 13 min

    "Is the story fact? Is it fiction? It is what it is." —Muriel SparkThe word most commonly used to describe Muriel Spark is "puzzling." Spark was a puzzle, and so too are her books. She dealt in word games, tricks, and ciphers; her life was composed of weird accidents, strange coincidences, and spooky events. Evelyn Waugh thought she was a saint, Bernard Levin said she was a witch, and she ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • How to Survive the Titanic

    Or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

    by Frances Wilson ...
    A brilliantly original and gripping new look at the sinking of the Titanic through the prism of the life and lost honor of J. Bruce Ismay, the ship's ownerBooks have been written and films have been made, we have raised the Titanic and watched her go down again on numerous occasions, but out of the wreckage Frances Wilson spins a new epic: when the ship hit the iceberg on April 14, 1912, and one ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Literary Seductions

    Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers

    by Frances Wilson ...
    "[An] exploration of writing, reading, love and sex, a romp through literary history to increase our awareness of writers who make us love them." — The New York TimesHighlighting the lives and loves of celebrated literary couples, Literary Seductions reveals the depth of their passion for language—their own as well as their partner's. Taking as a point of departure the legendary courtship of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Flock

    The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality

    by Joan Frances Casey, Lynn Wilson ...
    The groundbreaking first-person account of successful recovery from dissociative identity disorder, now featuring a new preface by the authorWhen Joan Frances Casey, a married twenty-six-year-old graduate student, “awoke” on the ledge of a building ready to jump, it wasn’t the first time she couldn’t explain her whereabouts. Soon after, Lynn Wilson, an experienced psychiatric social worker, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth

    A Life

    by Frances Wilson ...
    A "sensitive and elegantly written" biography of Dorothy Wordsworth, sister and muse of the Romantic English poet William Wordsworth ( Publishers Weekly )."[A] highly charged and forthright biography. . . . A 'perpetual third party,' Dorothy Wordsworth finally steps out of the shadows in this assured and involving reclamation of an intriguing, literary figure." — Booklist <strong... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Journey Beyond Borders: 30 Books on Immigration Experiences

    Immigrant Memoirs, Reform, and Belonging Across Early Twentieth-Century America

    by Martin Andersen Nexø, Myra Kelly, Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot, Margaret Wilson, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Finley Peter Dunne, Broughton Brandenburg, Mary Antin, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Peter A. Speek, George Fraser Black, Sui Sin Far, United States. Office of Education, Inc. Columbia Broadcasting System, John Robertson Henry, Council of Women for Home Missions, Home Missions Council, Eva Stern, Anzia Yezierska, Eustace Hale Ball, Stephen Graham, Emily P. Weaver, Thomas Ostenson Stine, J. P. MacLean, George T. Flom, Clara M. S. Lowe, Patrick Matthew, Scots New Zealand Land Company, F. S. Brereton, James Seton Cockburn, George A. Birmingham ...
    Journey Beyond Borders: 30 Books on Immigration Experiences surveys migration as both an intimate upheaval and a public force shaping modern societies. Across fiction, memoir, reportage, social investigation, educational materials, and historical reflection, the volume ranges from tales of arrival and labor to analyses of settlement, language, race, gender, and national belonging. Its ... Read more

    Was $1.99 USD Now $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Middle Years & Other Tales

    by Henry James, Frances Wilson ...
    Series series riverrun editions
    'Both the fictional and autobiographical versions of 'The Middle Years' are concerned with authors, acolytes, and endings rather than the middle of things. Or rather they are about, as are all the tales of James's middle years, the recognition of one's own extreme brevity'Frances Wilson, from her preface to The Middle Years & Other TalesThe stories in this collection represent Henry James's middle ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Femdom: A Week Before the Wedding

    by Frances Wilson-Reed ...
    A hot and kinky story of a woman who completely changes the dynamics of the relationship. She puts herself in charge approaching the most crucial moment in their relationship: their wedding! He is overwhelmed by her feminine power and has to endure intense tease and denial for her pleasure... but that is by far not the only thing she demands of him! ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    How to Survive the Titanic

    Or, The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

    by Frances Wilson ...
    Narrated by Robin Sachs ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 20 min

    On the terrifying, chaotic night of April 14, 1912, while the Titanic was sinking, Bruce J. Ismay, the ship's owner, made a decision that would save his life - and end it. Ismay boarded a lifeboat meant for women and children, and within days became 'The Most Talked-of Man in the World.' Branded a coward, he became a flesh-and-blood embodiment of Joseph Conrad's legendary eponymous character, Lord ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook