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Brecht: A Choice Of Evils

By Martin Esslin

The Boy Who Loved Books

By John Sutherland

Writing home

By Bennett, Alan

Catherine Cookson Country

By Catherine Cookson

Notebooks, 1960-77

By Athol Fugard, Mary Benson

Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew

By John Felstiner

Are You Somebody?: The Life and Times of Nuala O'Faolain

By Nuala O'Faolain

The Life of Charlotte Bronte

By Elizabeth Gaskell, Elisabeth Jay

H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life

By Michael Sherborne

The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams

By William Carlos Williams

Ernest Hemingway

By Anthony Burgess, Patrick Marnham

Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk

By Susheila Nasta (Open University, UK)

Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life

By Allen Shawn

Editor: A Memoir

By Max Hastings

Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Nine Contemporary Poets: A critical introduction

By King, P.R.

Introducing Chomsky: A Graphic Guide

By John Maher, Judy Groves

F.R. Leavis: Essays and Documents

By Ian MacKillop, Richard Storer

The Brontes: a Beginner's Guide

By Steve Eddy

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By Stephen Bygrave

Keeping On Keeping On

By Alan Bennett

Haunted by Christ

By Richard Harries

Strange Places, Questionable People

By Simpson, John, John Simpson

Omar Khayyam: Poet, Rebel, Astronomer

By Hazhir Teimourian

Faulkner: A Biography

By Joseph Leo Blotner

Beside the Sea (Melrose and Croc)

By Chichester Clark, Emma, Chichester Clark, Emma

Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics

By Tom Keymer (, University of Toronto)

William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction

By Stanley Wells (Honorary President, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

By Volker Weidermann, Carol Janeway

Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith

By Emma Mason (Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick)