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  • - The Delicate Life of John Craske
    av Julia Blackburn
    392,-

    Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill.

  • - Journeys in and around an Italian Mountain Village
    av Julia Blackburn
    156,-

    Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999.

  • - Traveller and Conservationist
    av Julia Blackburn
    243,-

    Charles Waterton was the first conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the destruction and pollution of Victorian industrialisation. Using his surviving papers, Julia Blackburn has redressed the balance in a biogr aphy that restores Waterton to his place as the first conservationist of the modern age.

  • av Julia Blackburn
    241 - 262,-

  • - Searching for Doggerland
    av Julia Blackburn
    205,-

  • av Julia Blackburn
    156,-

    42 lively, funny, moving and erotic poems written in the voice of Picasso's young mistress Marie Therese, with illustrations by Jeff Fisher.

  • - A Family Story
    av Julia Blackburn
    243,-

    The Three of Us is a captivating book written by the talented Julia Blackburn. Published by Vintage Publishing in 2009, this book has continued to capture the hearts of readers worldwide. This engrossing piece of literature falls under the genre of memoirs, offering readers a profound look into the author's life. The Three of Us is a testament to Blackburn's storytelling prowess, with her ability to weave together a narrative that is both captivating and deeply personal. Published by Vintage Publishing, this book is a must-read for anyone seeking a deeply moving and beautifully written memoir. The Three of Us takes you on a journey that is as unforgettable as it is inspiring.

  • av Julia Blackburn
    176,-

    Congo the bush baby, from the jungles of Madagascar and the tropical fish, tortoises, chickens, guinea pigs, foxes, pigs, and two dogs. This book recalls the animals in the authors' life and in so doing gives us a sidelong glance at the human members of her family, her painter mother and poet father.

  • av Julia Blackburn
    243,-

    During the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, planning to write a biography of Billie, recorded interviews with more than 150 people. Kuehl died in 1978 and her book never came out, but her recordings survived to provide the raw material for this extraordinary account of the life of America's First Lady of Jazz.

  • av Julia Blackburn
    243,-

    To escape from her own sadness, a woman finds refuge in a past time. A man's discovery of a mermaid washed up on the sand starts a chain of events that leads three of the villagers to accompany the enigmatic figure of the leper on a pilgrimmage to the Holy Land.

  • av Julia Blackburn
    243,-

    In 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. In Daisy Bates in the Desert Julia Blackburn explores the ancient and desolate landscape where Ms Bates says she was most happy.

  • - A Journey to St Helena
    av Julia Blackburn
    243,-

    The Emperor's Last Stand is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history, and about the tangle of stories and myths, absurdities and simple facts that have accumulated around Napoleon and his sojourn here.

  • av Julia Blackburn
    156,-

    In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life.

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