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Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning has written the first biography of the publisher, writer, activist and husband at the heart of the Bloomsbury group, Leonard Woolf.

The Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West.Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the century, creating with her husband the famous gardens at Sissinghurst. In her Whitbread Prize-winning biography, Glendinning documents Vita's extraor...

From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography. 'It's Succession in tailcoats and spats ... This is a vivid and eye-opening group biography, backgrounded by the rise of supermarket moguls from humble beginnings' Sunday Times

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From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography.'It's Succession in tailcoats and spats ... This is a vivid and eye-opening group biography, backgrounded by the rise of supermarket moguls from humble beginnings' Sunday Times

Historical fiction at its finest.' @MargaretAtwood The richly atmospheric story of a young woman's struggle to define herself in a world of uncertainty, intrigue and danger in a time of great upheaval during the Tudor era.

Newly updated for the 200th anniversary of the foundation of Singapore, this biography of Java Governor and Singapore founder Thomas Stamford Raffles looks at his staggering rise to power through the East India Company, his controversial ideas, his dabbling zoology and more to present a full picture of a short and complicated life.

An exciting reissue of GLENDINNING'S most critically acclaimed novel

An atmospheric story of a young woman and her struggle to define herself in a world of uncertainty, intrigue and danger in a period of great upheaval during the Tudor era.

The atmospheric novel set during the Tudor era of a young woman's struggle to define herself in a world of uncertainty, intrigue, and danger in a period of great upheaval

Vita Sackville-West - the most famous member of the Bloomsbury Group - was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the century, creating with her husband the famous gardens at Sissinghurst. In her Whitbread Prize-winning biography, Glendinning documents Vita's extraordinary lif...

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Her looks attracted Cecil Beaton and the principal painters of the day. Among her friends were Aldous Huxley, T S Eliot, and Gertrude Stein. She rebuffed Wyndham Lewis and ardently loved the temperamental Russian painter, Pavel Tchelitchew. This title tells the story of a spontaneous, gallant, yet tragically insecure woman.

Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. To this day he remains a controversial figure, and in the first biography for over 40 years, Glendinning charts his prodigious rise within the social and historical contexts of his world. Full colour illustrations throughout. 'At last. A truly magnificent biography of the most incorrigible of empire-builders' John Keay

In dieser Biographie der exzentrischen englischen Dichterin Edith Sitwell, die im Mittelpunkt des literarischen Lebens einer ganzen Epoche stand, zeigt Victoria Glendinning das komplexe Leben einer verletzlichen Frau hinter ihrer extravaganten Fassade. Alle drei Sitwells, Edith wie ihre Brüder Osbert und Sacheverell, haben beeindruckende Spiegelbilder ihrer selbst hinterlassen. Glendinning hat sich als erste ausschließlich auf Edith konzentrie...

I had never met anything like her before, H G Wells wrote of meeting Rebecca West in 1913, and I doubt if there ever was anything like her before. Born Cicily Fairfield, West renamed herself after the character she had once played in Ibsen's "Rosmersholm". This 'short' biography accounts for and explores West's legacy.

Deals with the great Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen whose literary achievements were matched by her tremendous talent for living. This title takes us from her ancestral home in Ireland to Oxford, through her service as an air-raid warden in London during World War II, to her friendships with such luminaries as Virginia Woolf, and more.

The love letters of Elizabeth Bowen: published for the first time in paperback, and every bit as brilliant, beautiful and beguiling as her novels.

A loving but clear-eyed portrait of a family and an era, this is Victoria Glendinning's first book.'I always wanted everything so frantically, and I'm just the person that can't have them.' Based on family papers and memories, this picture of middle class life at the end of the nineteenth century tells the poignant story of Winnie Seebohm, Victoria Glendinning's great-aunt, who in 1885 was one of the early students at Newnham College, Cambridg...