With Billie
'This is a raw, true book that evokes not just the life of the great singer Billie Holiday but an entire jazz era... ' Mail on Sunday Julia Blackburn's brilliant and haunting book is a life of Billie Holiday told in the... See More
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(116 reviews)
Quick View'This is a raw, true book that evokes not just the life of the great singer Billie Holiday but an entire jazz era... ' Mail on Sunday Julia Blackburn's brilliant and haunting book is a life of Billie Holiday told in the... See More
(101 reviews)
Quick ViewShortlisted 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. She arrived as a... See More
(20 reviews)
Quick ViewIn 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. And there she stayed, with occasional interruptions, for almost 30 years. In Daisy Bates in the Desert Julia Blackburn... See More
(94 reviews)
Quick ViewWinner of the J. R. Ackerley Award 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 was addicted to barbiturates; Rosalie... See More
(18 reviews)
Quick ViewTo escape from her own sadness, a woman finds refuge in a past time. In a village by the sea she watches the lives of the inhabitants unfold around her. But the year is now 1410 and this is a world of devils and miracles, a... See More
(13 reviews)
Quick View'Wandering through dreams and nightmares from Praslin Islands to Mauritius and finally to England, the author unfolds the troubled lives of her forbears, cursed by racial prejudice, sexual inhibition and recurrent mental... See More
(41 reviews)
Quick ViewThe 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... See More
(71 reviews)
Quick ViewSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE A journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to Holland Time Song tells of the... See More
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Quick ViewIn 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 her family, her painter mother and poet father. First comes Congo the... See More