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

By Simon Armitage

Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath

After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches

By W.D. Snodgrass

SOS TITLE UNKNOWN

By Andrew Birkin

Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years

By Eleanor Farjeon

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

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

By Daniel Mendelsohn

Secret Life of Wilkie Collins

By William M. Clarke

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

By John Bunyan

Stevie

By William McBrien, Jack Barbera

A Pilgrimage of Passion: The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

By Elizabeth Longford

The Trial of Christopher Okigbo (African Writers Series)

By Mazrui, Ali A.

Margery Kempe: and her world (The Medieval World)

By Goodman, A.E.

The Mottled Lizard

By Elspeth Huxley

Long Life

By Nigel Nicolson