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What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare

By Andrew McConnell Stott (University of Southern California)

Cautionary Verses

By Hilaire Belloc

The Sexual Life of Catherine M.

By Millet, Catherine, Hunter, Adriana

The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett

By Nathan Ward

Ian Fleming: The man who created James Bond

By Andrew Lycett

Travels Through Stuart Britain: The Adventures of John Taylor, the Water Poet

By John H. Chandler

Creaturely And Other Essays

By Devin Johnston

Sean O'Casey: A Life

By Garry O'Connor

Maud Gonne: Lucky Eyes and a High Heart

By Nancy Cardozo

Making an Exhibition of Myself: the autobiography of Peter Hall: The Autobiography of Peter Hall

By Peter Hall

The Biographer's Moustache

By Kingsley Amis

Melbourne

By Sophie Cunningham

A Moment of War

By Laurie Lee

Dark Night of the Soul: A Masterpiece in the Literature of Mysticism by St. John of the Cross

By E. Allison Peers

Book of Longing

By Leonard Cohen

Life of Charlotte Bronte

By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Leonard Cohen: A Life in Art

By Ira Bruce Nadel

Daphne: A Daughter's Memoir

By Flavia Leng

Bodies In Motion and At Rest

By Thomas Lynch

The Grassling

By Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

Notes of a Dirty Old Man

By Bukowski, Charles

Thomas Hardy

By Timothy Hands

Alasdair MacIntyre: Critic of Modernity

By Peter Martin McMylor

Larousse Dictionary of Writers

By Rosemary Goring

Plum Sauce: A Wodehouse Companion

By Richard Usborne

New Fame New Love: John Betjeman

By Bevis Hillier

Michael Morpurgo: War Child to War Horse

By Maggie Fergusson

BY JACK ROSENTHAL

By Jack Rosenthal

Star of the Morning: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope

By Kirsten Ellis

George MacKay Brown: The Wound and the Gift

By Ron Ferguson