Books by Julia Blackburn

This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic, who for many years ... More

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You come across the shell of a ruined house. It could be anywhere in southern Europe where people once lived and then moved away because there was no ... More

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An intimate account of the life of Francisco de Goya from 1792 when he was 47 and contracted a serious illness which left him totally deaf. Through a ... More

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This blend of documentary and fiction describes the author's search for Daisy Bates, an eccentric woman who lived alone in the deserts of South ... More

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The voices of piano players and dancers, pimps and junkies, producers and critics, narcotics agents, friends, lovers, and fellow musicians provide a ... More

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The highly acclaimed author of "Daisy Bates in the Desert" and "With Billie" presents the story of her own difficult coming of age, and of the ... More

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In 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on St. Helenad surreal exile that would last until his death six years later. "A resonant meditation on exile, ... More

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In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping our fornication among the natives. ... More

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Her first work of fiction, this journey around the writer's father and grandfather is set largely in Mauritius and concerns childhood, madness, fears ... More

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One morning in 1410, two men from an East-Coast fishing village find a mermaid washed up on the sand. This discovery starts a chain of events that ... More

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Julia Blackburn's brilliant and haunting new book is a life of Billie Holiday told in the voices of those who knew her. During the 1970s a young ... More

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In these five stories Julia Blackburn recalls the significant animals in her life and in so doing gives us a sidelong glance at the human members of ... More

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Throughout the 1970s, a young journalist named Linda Kuehl interviewed more than 150 people with the intention of writing a biography about Billie ... More

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After Waterloo, Napoleon gave himself up to the English on the understanding that they would lodge him in a "fairly large" country house just outside ... More

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Charles Waterton was the first conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the destruction and pollution of Victorian industrialisation ... More

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