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The Trial of Christopher Okigbo (African Writers Series)

By Mazrui, Ali A.

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

James Joyce

By Chester G. Anderson

True Stories: Complete Short Non-Fiction

By Helen Garner

Girlitude

By E Tennant

Extreme Metaphors

By J. G. Ballard, Simon Sellars, Dan O'Hara

Borges: A Life

By Edwin Williamson

Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter

By Lady Antonia Fraser

Long Life

By Nigel Nicolson

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

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

Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Collins Classics)

By Thomas De Quincey

George Gissing: A Life

By Paul Delany

Bernard Shaw

By Michael Holroyd

Written by Herself: Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology

By Jill Ker Conway

Arise Sir Michael Caine

By William Hall

Dickens

By Peter Ackroyd

The South Country

By Edward Thomas, Eric Fitch Daglish, Robert Macfarlane, David Inshaw

A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945

By Vasily Grossman, Antony Beevor, Luba Vinogradova