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Lives of the English Poets: v. 1

By Samuel Johnson

Lives of the English Poets: v. 2

By Samuel Johnson

On Acting

By Laurence Olivier

The World of Little House

By carolyn-strom-collins-christina-wyss-eriksson

To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde

By Rupert Everett

The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century

By Ariane Bankes

Orwell: A Man Of Our Time

By Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, UK)

The Notebooks Of Joseph Joubert

By Joseph Joubert

The Life and Times of William Shakespeare

By Peter Levi

Auden

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Christina Rossetti: A Literary Biography

By Jan Marsh

Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me

By Clanchy, Kate

You Might as Well Live: Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

By John Keats

The Cherry Orchard

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Robin Williams - When the Laughter Stops 1951-2014

By Emily Herbert

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

By Laurie Lee

Ariel: A Literary Life of Jan Morris

By Derek Johns

The Letters

By Edith Wharton

Journal of a Solitude

By May Sarton

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

By Hermione Lee

Emily Dickinson: Singular Poet

By Carol Dommermuth-Costa

The Outsider (Paperback)

By Albert Camus

John Clare

By Jonathan Bate

Collected Stories

By Carol Shields

London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City

By Sandhu, Sukhdev

Virginia Woolf's Garden: The Story of the Garden at Monk's House

By Caroline Zoob, Caroline Arber, Cecil Woolf

The Other Side of Me

By Sidney Sheldon

Our Kate

By Catherine Cookson

New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families

By Colm Toibin

The Connell Guide to The Poetry of Robert Browning

By Jonathon Keates