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The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Pepys Anthology

By SAMUEL PEPYS, Robert Latham, Linnet Latham

The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

By Maya Jasanoff

Virginia Woolf

By Alexandra Harris

Hitler's Banker: Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht

By John Weitz

Tropic of Cancer (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Miller, Henry

Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

By Austen, Jane, Ballaster, Ros, Tanner, Tony

Up in the Attic

By Pam Ayres

Paula

By Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden

Virgil: His Life and Times

By Peter Levi

On Seamus Heaney

By Roy Foster

The World of Jane Austen

By Nigel Nicolson, Stephen Colover

A Dance with Jane Austen: How a Novelist and her Characters Went to the Ball

By Susannah Fullerton, Deirdre Le Faye

Wilde

By Jonathan Fryer

A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story

By Polly Morland, Richard Baker

Diary of an Invasion

By Andrey Kurkov

A Death in Malta: An assassination and a family's quest for justice

By Paul Caruana Galizia

William Wordsworth: A Biography

By Hunter Davies

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Joyce, James

Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime

By Jang Jin-Sung

Simone De Beauvoir

By D Bair

The Last Leopard

By David Gilmour

A Lot to Ask: a Life of Barbara Pym

By Hazel Holt

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A Hearthbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

By Eggers, Dave

You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir

By Soyinka, Wole

Laura: the Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder

By Zochert, Donald

The Kiss

By Harrison, Kathryn

The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words

By Chandler, Raymond

Stevie Smith : A Biography

By Frances Spalding

Mood Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties (Paper )

By Mood, Jjl

Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation

By Meyers, Jeffrey