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James Joyce

By Chester G. Anderson

Under Storm's Wing

By Helen Thomas, Myfanwy Thomas

A Move in the Weather

By Anthony Thwaite

The Letters of Wallace Stevens

By Holly Stevens, Richard Howard

Joseph Conrad: Master Mariner

By Peter Villiers

When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible

By Nicolson, Adam

William Blake vs the World

By John Higgs

Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell

By Dame Edith Sitwell, Richard Greene

Edith Sitwell

By Victoria Glendinning

Conundrum

By Jan Morris

Noel Coward: Autobiography

By Noel Coward, Sheridan Morley

The Rules Do Not Apply

By Ariel Levy

Playwrights at Work

By George Plimpton, John Lahr

My Father's Son

By Frank O'Connor

Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

By Louis L'Amour

Ezra Pound as Literary Critic

By Emeritus Professor K K Ruthven, K. K. Ruthven

Autobiographies: Farewell Happy Fields, Land Unknown and Lion's Mouth

By Kathleen Raine

Gig: Rock 'n' Roll Dreams in a Northern Town

By Simon Armitage

Richard Wilbur in Conversation with Peter Dale

By Peter Dale

Peter Dale in Conversation with Cynthia Haven

By Peter Dale

Letters to the Lady Upstairs

By Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis

Almost a Gentleman: an Autobiography 195

By John Osborne

An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017

By Daniel Mendelsohn

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

By Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, Charles Foley, Arthur Conan Doyle

The Trial of Christopher Okigbo (African Writers Series)

By Mazrui, Ali A.

The Mottled Lizard

By Elspeth Huxley

Margery Kempe: and her world (The Medieval World)

By Goodman, A.E.

Amis & Son: Two Literary Generations

By Neil Powell

K: Biography of Kafka

By Ronald Hayman

Paulo Coelho: A Warrior's Life: The Authorized Biography

By Fernando Morais