Adam Sisman is the author of Boswell”s Presumptuous Task, winner of the US National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and the biographer of John Le Carré, A. J. P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper. Among his other works are two volumes of letters by Patrick Leigh Fermor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of the University of St Andrews.
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Adam Sisman: Friendship
The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship – and quarrel – between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism.Wordsworth and Coleridge’s passionate …
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Adam Sisman: John le Carre
The definitive biography of the renowned spy novelist-a "highly readable portrait of a writer . . . as elusive and enigmatic as his fictional heroes" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).In t …
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€3.85
Richard Davenport-Hines & Adam Sisman: One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper
The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper’s life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in aca …
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€18.15
Richard Davenport-Hines & Adam Sisman: One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper
The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper’s life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in aca …
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€18.26
Adam Sisman: Hugh Trevor-Roper
The first biography of the great historian whose career was made and unmade by Hitler.Hugh Trevor-Roper’s life is a rich subject for a biography – with elements of Greek tragedy, comedy and moments o …
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Adam Sisman: John le Carré
The definitive biography of the undisputed giant of English literature, a man whose own true history has long been hidden behind the fictional world of his books ”Compendious and compelling … it i …
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€17.51
Patrick Leigh Fermor: Dashing for the Post
A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road.Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generatio …
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€3.99
Adam Sisman: The Professor and the Parson
Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction ‘I embarrassed myself by uncontrollable guffaws … This is a truly wonderful story’ A. N. Wilson, Spectator ‘A white-knuckle roller-coaster ride of …
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€10.99
Patrick Leigh Fermor: Flugs in die Post!
Patrick Leigh Fermor war sein Leben lang ein begeisterter Briefeschreiber. So umspannen die vorliegenden Briefe fast ein ganzes Jahrhundert und geben einen tiefen und umfassenden Einblick in sein abe …
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Adam Sisman: The Secret Life of John le Carré
Winner of the Crime Fest HRF Keating Award ‘Not merely the conclusive homage to a compulsively fascinating character, but an insightful study into the biographical process itself’ Nicholas Shakespear …
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€13.99
Adam Sisman: Secret Life of John le Carre
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carr was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carr, and there were some secrets that he fought f …
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Patrick Leigh Fermor: More Dashing
The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor The first collection of letters from Patrick Leigh Fermor, Dashing for the Post, delighted critics and …
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