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"December 1926: England unleashes the largest manhunt in its history. The object of the search is not an escaped convict or a war criminal, but the missing wife of a WWI hero, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie. When her car is found wrecked, empty, and abandoned near a natural spring, the country is in a frenzy. Eleven days later, Agatha reappears, claiming amnesia. She provides no answers for her disappearance. That is...until she writes...

Draws from over five thousand previously unpublished letters, notes, and documents to reveal the personal and literary life of the notoriously private writer.

Drawing on diaries, memoirs, and letters written by members of the Austen family,this sympathetic and probing biography enters the private world of Jane Austen, revealing experiences and observations she drew upon to write such masterpieces as Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility. Austen's childhood is recreated, sketching her devotion to her ambitious parents and drawing a lively picture of Jane's two brothersone...

London author Charlie Howard's career as a suspense novelist intersects a little too closely with his side business as a thief for a discreet clientele after he agrees to steal two small monkey figurines for a mysterious American who offers a substantial fee, and arrives to find his client beaten nearly to death.

In "The Life of Jane Austen, " Halperin reveals a roubust, vigorous, and at times difficult woman with a large and diverse circle of family and acquaintances. He documents her troubled relationships with a hypochondriacal mother and her frank dislike of the sister-in-law who usurped her childhood home, and he sheds new light on the shadowy existence of a retarded older brother. He also sets forth in greater detail than ever before the number of Austen's...

A Jane Austen scholar reveals how the life lessons hidden within Austen's novels, including her belief in the value of ordinary lives, transformed his own life.

With the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that have won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status, Jane Smiley naturally finds a kindred spirit in the author of classics such as Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. As "his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels," Smiley's Charles Dickens is at once a sensitive profile of the great master and a fascinating meditation on the writing...

On July 19, 2001, Jeffrey Archer - international best-selling author - is sentenced to four years in prison for perjury. He becomes Prisoner FF8282 and spends the first twenty-two days of his sentence in a high-security prison that house some of Britain's most violent criminals. During those twenty-two days, Archer contemplates suicide; he is allowed out and followed by 100 reporters on the day of his mother's funeral; he's moved to the Lifer's

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It has been 100 years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. In this biography, Laura Thompson describes the Edwardian world in which she grew up, explores the relationships she had, including those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates the mysteries still surrounding Christie's life - including her disappearance in 1926.