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Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

By Rob Wilkins

Sean

By Eileen O'Casey

Love Letters: Intimate Correspondence Between Famous Lovers

By Andrea Clarke

"Coming to Writing" and Other Essays

By Helene Cixous, Deborah Jenson, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Sarah Cornell, Ann Liddle

Before I Go

By Catherine Cookson

Fault Lines

By David Pryce-Jones

The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

By Nicolson, Adam

Simone de Beauvoir: A Beginner's Guide

By Alison Holland

Water at the Roots: Poems and Insights of a Visionary Farmer

By Philip Britts, David Kline, Jennifer Harries

Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

By Jenny Uglow

Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey

By Frances Wilson

Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph

By Edgar Johnson

Dickens's Women: His Great Expectations

By Anne Isba

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham

By Hastings, Selina

Storyteller - The Life of Roald Dahl

By Sturrock, Donald

Wodehouse: A Life

By Robert McCrum

E. M. Forster: A New Life

By Wendy Moffat

Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

By Nino Strachey

Zazie in the Metro

By Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright

Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard

By Richard Greene

John Masefield

By Muriel Spark

Author, Author

By Lodge, David

Why Orwell Matters

By Christopher Hitchens

Book of Awesome Women Writers: Medieval Mystics, Pioneering Poets, Fierce Feminists and First Ladies of Literature

By Becca Anderson

The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World

By Claire Tomalin

Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde

By Merlin Holland

Betjeman

By A.N. Wilson

Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys

By Morine Krissdottir

Surprised by Joy

By Lewis, C. S., C. S. Lewis