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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

Our Kate

By Catherine Cookson

Editor: A Memoir

By Max Hastings

Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life

By Allen Shawn

Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk

By Susheila Nasta (Open University, UK)

Ernest Hemingway

By Anthony Burgess, Patrick Marnham

The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams

By William Carlos Williams

H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life

By Michael Sherborne

The Life of Charlotte Bronte

By Elizabeth Gaskell, Elisabeth Jay

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

By Nuala O'Faolain

Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew

By John Felstiner

Notebooks, 1960-77

By Athol Fugard, Mary Benson

Catherine Cookson Country

By Catherine Cookson

Writing home

By Bennett, Alan

The Boy Who Loved Books

By John Sutherland

Brecht: A Choice Of Evils

By Martin Esslin

The Connell Guide to The Poetry of Robert Browning

By Jonathon Keates

New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families

By Colm Toibin

Robin Williams - When the Laughter Stops 1951-2014

By Emily Herbert

Journal of a Solitude

By May Sarton

The Letters

By Edith Wharton

Ariel: A Literary Life of Jan Morris

By Derek Johns

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

By Laurie Lee

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

By John Keats

Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me

By Clanchy, Kate

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

By Hermione Lee

The Cherry Orchard

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov