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Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives

By Hay, Daisy

Keats

By Motion, Andrew

Dickens' Artistic Daughter Katey: Her Life, Loves and Impact

By Lucinda Hawksley

Don't Tread On me: The Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman

By Perelman, S.J., Crowther, Prudence

And When Did You Last See Your Father

By Morrison, Blake

Gutter Magazine Issue 18: With The Freedom Papers

By Bell, Henry

The Lords and the New Creatures: The original published poetry of Jim Morrison

By Morrison, Jim

Down And Out In Paris And London

By Orwell, George

The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton

By Hughes, Kathryn

The Adventures of a Curious Cat: wit and wisdom from Curious Zelda, purrfect for cats and their humans

By Zelda, Curious, Taghioff, Matt

Turner

By Lindsay, Jack

Hard Times: Force of Circumstance, Volume II: 1952-1962 (the Autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir): 002

By de Beauvoir, Simone, Howard, Richard, Moi, Toril

The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge

By Sisman, Adam

Selected Diaries: Virginia Woolf (Vintage classics)

By Woolf, Virginia, Bell, Quentin

Dickens

By Rosen Michael, Ingpen Robert

C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien charles williams and Their Friends

By Carpenter, Humphrey

Poets (Favourite Classic)

By Moses, Brian

A Comedian’s Prayer Book

By Skinner, Frank

Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love

By Gooch, Brad

Robert Burns

By Geddes & Grosset

Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb

By Chateaubriand, François-René de

Lunch with the FT: 52 Classic Interviews

By Barber, Lionel

Let's Hope for the Best

By Setterwall, Carolina

Black Boy (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions)

By Wright, Dr Richard, Wideman, John Edgar, Malcolm

The Life & Work of Harold Pinter

By Billington, Michael

Seeing Things

By Postgate, Oliver, Fry, Stephen, Daniel

The Orwell Diaries (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Orwell, George, Davison, Peter

Rimbaud

By Robb, Graham

Erskine Childers: A Biography

By Ring, Jim

Offbeat Collaborating with Kerouac

By David Amram