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Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life

By Claire Tomalin

The Life and Work of Harold Pinter

By Michael Billington

Dickens: Shadows and Ghosts

By Barry Cundill

Dickens and the City

By F. S. Schwarzbach

Charles Dickens

By G. K. Chesterton

George Eliot

By Jenny Uglow

Memories of Milligan

By Norma Farnes

The Soul of a Woman

By Isabel Allende

My Heart Soars

By Dan George, Helmut Hirnschall

David Mamet in Conversation

By Leslie Kane

Stephen Leacock: His Remarkable Life

By Albert Frank Moritz, Theresa Anne Moritz

A Voyage Round My Father: A Play

By John Mortimer

The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography

By Robert DeMaria, Jr.

The Writer's Garden: How Gardens Inspired our Best-loved Authors

By Jackie Bennett

Dylan Thomas & Vernon Watkins: Portrait of a Friendship

By Gwen Watkins

Gérard de Nerval

By Norma Rinsler

The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound 1907-1941

By Ezra Pound

End to torment: Ed. by Norman Holmes Pearson and Michael King. With the poems from "Hilda's book" by Ezra Pound

By Hilda Doolittle

Richard Aldington: Reappraisals

By Charles Doyle

Ezra Pound in London and Paris, 1908-1925

By James J. Wilhelm

Richard Aldington: An Autobiography in Letters

By Richard Aldington, Norman T. Gates

The Life of Ezra Pound

By Noel Stock

Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells

By Bernard Shaw, Herbert George Wells

Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Harlequins of the Revolution

By Joseph Farrell

Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre

By Adrian Woods Frazier, Professor Adrian Frazier

Shakespeare, the Player: A Life in the Theatre

By John Southworth

Shakespeare

By I. Wilson

Fat Chance

By Simon Gray

Dante the Maker

By William Anderson

Edward Lear and His World

By John Lehmann