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Sylvia Plath died 1963. An American poet, novelist, children's author, and short story author. Best known for her poetry, and her death which mirrored an attempted suicide in The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel. Read books by Sylvia Plath
Read the opening extract of the brand new Lauren DeStefano book before its publication on 16/02/2012
Around the World in Eighty Days Michael Palin
This is Michael Palin’s first major expedition where he decided to circumnavigate the world following, as closely as possible, the route taken by Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg. 28,000 miles covered and 14 countries we join Michael in his eye-opening trip... Format: Paperback - Released: 25/06/2009
Pole to Pole Michael Palin
Palin’s second journey finds him spending five months travelling from Pole to Pole. He also chose great year to travel as 1991 saw the breaking of the USSR and apartheid ending in South Africa and Michael finding himself in the... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2009
Full Circle Michael Palin
Michael describes this journey as the most ambitious and most exhausting of all his trips and travelling around the Pacific Rim certainly means you take in a variety of terrains and temperatures. The author always seems to weed out the... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2009
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure Michael Palin
After writing his novel, about Hemingway, Palin decided he wanted to know more about this fascinating man and so set off to visit the places where Hemingway had lived and what had influenced him over the years. His travels take... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2001
Sahara Michael Palin
The thought of travelling across the Sahara is not the most appealing; sand, sand and more sand comes to mind but as usual Michael Plain manages to find the weird and wonderful as he makes the journey in extremes of... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/09/2003
Himalaya Michael Palin
Winner of TV& Film Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2005
The
beautiful, glossy, illustrated hardback that accompanied the television
series brought down to a text-led portable-sized paperback with 64 of
the colour photographs grouped together. This is for those of... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2005
New Europe Michael Palin
In this new journey Michael Palin fills a void in his travels by visiting 22 Eastern European countries, places which had had limited access until the fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of the 1980’s. Many of the... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/06/2008
Michael Palin established his reputation with Monty Python’s Flying
Circus and Ripping Yarns. His work also includes several famous films
with Monty Python, as well as The Missionary, A Private Function, an
award-winning performance in A Fish Called Wanda and, more recently,
American Friends and Fierce Creatures. His television credits include
two films for the BBC’s Great Railway Journeys, the plays East of
Ipswich, Number 27 and Alan Bleasdale’s GBH.
Phoenix has just reissued new paperback editions of the books which accompany Michael’s seven very successful travel series, Around the World in 80 Days, Pole to Pole, Full Circle, Hemingway Adventure, Sahara, Himalaya and New Europe. They all dominated the bestseller lists and Himalaya was the UK’s No.1 bestseller for 11 weeks. Michael is also the author of a number of children’s stories, the play The Weekend and the novel Hemingway’s Chair. In 2006 the first volume of his acclaimed diaries, 1969–1979: The Python Years, spent many weeks on the bestseller lists. The second volume of Michael's diaries, Halfway to Hollywood, covers 1980-1988 and will be available from Weidenfeld & Nicolson in September 2009.
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