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New Fame New Love: John Betjeman

By Bevis Hillier

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

What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare

By Andrew McConnell Stott (University of Southern California)

Windward Family: An atlas of love, loss and belonging

By Alexis Keir

The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell

By HILARY SPURLING

Orwell's Roses

By Rebecca Solnit (Y)

Just Sayin': My Life In Words

By Malorie Blackman

Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales

By Marta McDowell

Out of the Woodshed: Portrait of Stella Gibbons

By Reggie Oliver

Red Sky at Sunrise: "Cider with Rosie", "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning" and "Moment of War"

By Laurie Lee

Dylan the Bard: A Life of Dylan Thomas

By Andrew Sinclair

Barefoot in Mullyneeny: A Boy's Journey Towards Belonging

By bryan gallagher

Favourite Poems: of the National Trust

By Jane McMorland Hunter, Jane Robbins, National Trust Books

Between the Covers: Jilly Cooper on sex, socialising and survival

By Jilly Cooper

George MacKay Brown: The Wound and the Gift

By Ron Ferguson

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

By Kirsten Ellis

Plum Sauce: A Wodehouse Companion

By Richard Usborne

Michael Morpurgo: War Child to War Horse

By Maggie Fergusson

My Dog Tulip

By Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, J R Ackerley, J.R. Ackerley

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

By Isobel Grundy

Year of the Fat Knight: The Falstaff Diaries

By Antony Sher

Harold Pinter

By Michael Billington

The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage

By Paul Elie

Time Bites: Views and Reviews

By Doris Lessing

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: The internationally bestselling classic

By Dr Maya Angelou

Christopher and His Kind

By Christopher Isherwood

Wilkie Collins

By Peter Ackroyd