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Living, Thinking, Looking

By Hustvedt, Siri

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft: Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King

By King, Stephen

Trains and Buttered Toast

By Betjeman, John

Dancing with Ophelia: Reconnecting Madness, Creativity, and Love (Excelsior Editions)

By Petrolle, Jeanne Ellen

Mark Twain

By Powers, Ron

Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

By Gregory, Lady Augusta

Stieg and Me: Memories of my Life with Stieg Larsson

By Gabrielsson, Eva, Colombani, Marie-Francoise

Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan

By Buchan, Ursula

John le Carré: The Biography

By Sisman, Adam

E. M. Forster: A New Life

By Moffat, Wendy

Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras: A Biography

By Moorcroft Wilson, Dr Jean

The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography (Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies)

By Lewalski, Barbara K.

Studying Poetry

By SPURR, Professor Barry

Ted Hughes: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

By Roberts, Neil

I Saw Ramallah

By Barghauthai, Muraid

Reading Shakespeare

By Alexander, Michael

The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution

By Heyman, Stephen

And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life

By J., Charles Shields

The Life And Letters Of Washington Irving, Volume 1

By Irving, Pierre Munroe

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

By Lee, Laurie

The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale

By Atlas, James

Wilfred Owen: A New Biography

By Hibberd, Dominic

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away

By Bill Bryson

Under the Tuscan Sun: 20th-Anniversary Edition

By Mayes, Frances

Agatha Christie: An English Mystery

By Laura Thompson

Agatha Christie: An English Mystery

By Thompson, Laura

Narratives of Women and Murder in England, 1680–1760: Deadly Plots

By Saxton, Kirsten T.

Mallarmé and Wagner: Music and Poetic Language

By Lees, Heath

Dylan Thomas: a new life

By Andrew Lycett

How To Be Right: … in a world gone wrong

By O'Brien, James