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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

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

By Mangan, Lucy

Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975

By Lodge, David

My Shitty Twenties: A Memoir

By Morris, Emily

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By Rubenhold, Hallie

Byron's Women

By Alexander Larman

Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter

By Diana Athill

Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter

By Diana Athill

Have You Been Good?: A Memoir

By Vanessa Nicolson

The Seven Good Years

By Etgar Keret

You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of Brian Bilston

By Bilston, Brian

Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936

By Volker Weidermann

The Abundance (Canons)

By Annie Dillard

The Outrun

By Amy Liptrot

Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence

By Dyer, Geoff

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

By Olivia Laing

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

By Olivia Laing