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Doctor Glas

By Soderberg, Hjalmar

How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction

By Smith, Daniel

Personal History (WOMEN IN HISTORY)

By Graham, Katharine

Written Lives

By Javier Marias

Rooms of their Own

By Nino Strachey

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

By Bloom, Harold

Bad Blood: A Memoir

By Sage, Lorna

Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the "Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

By Gaiman, Neil, Simpson, M.J., Dickson, David K.

The Drama of Love, Life and Death in Shakespeare

By Holden, Anthony

The Man in the Red Coat

By Barnes, Julian

The Flame

By Cohen, Leonard, Faggen, Robert, Pleshoyano, Alexandra, Cohen, Adam

My Name Is Why

By Sissay, Lemn

When I Hit You: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

By Kandasamy, Meena

Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847–1947

By Lebrecht, Norman

The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John Bingham

By Michael Jago

Jane Austen: The Banker's Sister

By E. J. Clery

On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures: An Adventure in Books

By Smith, Wilbur

Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter

By Matthew Dennison

Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

By Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Sleeping Letters

By Bragg, Marie-Elsa R.

Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

By Hudson, Kerry

Testament of Youth

By Brittain, Vera

Blazing Star: The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

By Alexander Larman

Keeping On Keeping On: Alan Bennett

By Bennett, Alan

Keeping On Keeping On

By Bennett, Alan

A Brief Guide to J. R. R. Tolkien: A Comprehensive Guide to the Author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (Brief Histories)

By Nigel Cawthorne

Prayer for the Day on Peace: Foreword by Terry Waite CBE

By BBC Radio 4

Orwell's Nose: A Pathological Biography

By John Sutherland

My History: A Memoir of Growing Up

By Lady Antonia Fraser

Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home

By Sisonke Msimang