Books by my bedside ~ Spring 2010

The list author says:
	"After Andrew Motion's brilliant biography and the selected letters, I'm looking forward to this much-lauded "tour de force of poet-sympathy across the decades"

The list author says:
	"One of the few books on Austen that I might be able to stomach, this one retraces the cult of all thing Austen"

The list author says:
	"Much overshadowed by her more famous sister Virginia Woolf, it wasn't until 1983 that a biography on Vanessa was published"

The list author says:
	"The film Daphne was great - I'm looking forward to learning more about Du Maurier (1907-1989)"

The list author says:
	"Killed in a car accident with a train ticket in his pocket, Camus penned The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus in the early 1940s"

The list author says:
	"Hoping to make it through Franz Kafka's novels before travelling to Prague to visit the writer's grave"

The list author says:
	"Gordon takes on the myth of Saint Emily in this new, revisionist biography of the American poet's life"

The list author says:
	"Only book on the enigmatic Fanny Imlay (the illegitimate daughter of feminist Mary Wollstonecraft) who committed suicide at 22"

The list author says:
	"Finishing with the short, chaotic & prolific life of the English Romantic poet Shelley, it's going to be a great spring!"