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Virginia Woolf

By Zena Alkayat, Nina Cosford

The Truth About Lisa Jewell

By Will Brooker

With These Hands

By Pam Ayres

Serving God and Gods Creatures

By Bernard Braley

Franz Kafka

By Klaus Wagenbach

The Making of Yeat's "A Vision: A Study of the Automatic Script

By George M Harper

Tolstoy

By Henri Troyat

W.B. Yeats: a Literary Life

By Alisdair D.F. Macrae (Senior Lecturer, University of Sterling)

Conversations with Derek Walcott

By William Baer

Georges Perec Life in Words

By David Bellos

Forty Four: A Dublin Memoir

By Peter Sheridan

Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography

By Loraine Fletcher

Some Other Rainbow

By John McCarthy, Jill Morrell

Dante in Love

By A. N. Wilson (Author)

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By Joan Didion

Horace Walpole: The Great Outsider

By Tim Mowl

Banjo: The story of the man who wrote Waltzing Matilda

By Paul Terry

Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman

By Nuala O'Faolain

Friends and Enemies: A Memoir

By Barbara Amiel

Bellow

By James Atlas

Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Shapes our World

By Andrew Hill

Voltaire: A Life

By Ian Davidson

The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

By Ramachandra Guha

My Son's Father: An Autobiography

By Dom Moraes

Joy of the Snow

By Elizabeth Goudge

Teddy Bears: An Anthology of Verse and Prose

I Love Churchill: 400 Fantastic Facts

By Cate Ludlow

Diaries

By Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Hart- Davis, Rupert Hart-Davis

In Search of Swallows and Amazons: Arthur Ransome's Lakeland

By Roger Wardale

Shakespeare's Professional Career

By Peter Thomson (University of Exeter)