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Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. The Last Modern: A Life of Herbert Read. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson and New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. William Blake: His Life. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson and New York: St Martin's Press, 1991. London: Weidenfeld Paperbacks, 1992. New York: St Martin's Press (paperback edition), 1992. Virginia Woolf. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994; New York: W.W. Norton, 1995; London: Penguin Books, 1995. The Life of Margaret Laurence. Toronto:
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Farley Mowat. Toronto: Harper Collins Canada, 2002; American edition published by Steerforth Press, 2003. Japanese Warrior Prints, 1646-1905. Leiden: Hotei, 2007. Co-author with Yuriko Iwakiri. Beyond the Great Wave: The Japanese Landscape Print, 1727-1960. Bern: Peter Lang: 2010. Under Foreign Eyes: Western Cinematic Adaptations of Postwar Japan Winchester and Washington: Zero Books: 2011. Inward Journey: The Life of
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Michael Snow: Lives and Works. Toronto: Dundurn, 2019. Early Snow: Michael Snow 1947-1962. Hamilton and Vancouver:
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