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Anna Sewell: The Woman Who Wrote Black Beauty

By Chitty

T. S. Eliot (Lives and Legacies)

By Raine, Craig

The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years

By James, Clive

Alistair MacLean

By Webster, Jack

Oeuvres

By Desnos, Robert

A Mad World, My Masters: Tales from a Traveller's Life

By Simpson, John

Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's 'Journey Out of Essex'

By Sinclair, Iain

Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape

By Lee, Laurie

Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett

By Bennett, Alan

The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son

By Conroy, Pat

Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure, The

By C.D. Rose, Andrew Gallix

Fathers and Sons

By Waugh, Alexander

Pages From The Goncourt Journals (New York Review Books Classics)

By De Goncourt, Edmond and Jules, Baldick, Robert, Dyer, Geoff

George Eliot: A Life

By Ashton, Rosemary

This is How You Disappear: A Book of Elegies

By Jeremy Reed, Reed, Jeremy

The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir

By Pam Ayres, Ayres, Pam

Walden: Henry David Thoreau (Vintage Classics)

By Thoreau, Henry David

James Joyce (Oxford Lives)

By Ellmann, Richard

Said And Done

By McGough, Roger

Elegy for Iris

By Bayley, John

Poems and Prose (Poets)

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Charles Dickens

By Slater, Michael

Shakespeare: The World as a Stage

By Bryson, Bill

The Genius of Shakespeare

By Bate, Jonathan

Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

By Hopkins, L.

In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism (Edinburgh Companions to Literature)

By Mena Mitrano

John Donne: Life, Mind and Art

By Carey, John

May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds

By Rebecca Bowler, Claire Drewery

Katherine Mansfield - The Early Years

By Gerri Kimber

de Profundis

By Wilde, Oscar, Auden, W H, Hart-Davis, Rupert