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Great African Americans in Literature (Great African Americans S.)

By Redigar, Pat

Samuel Johnson (Life & Times)

By Timothy Wilson-Smith

Brontes' World

By O'Neill, Jane

Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach

By Jean Sprackland

World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

By Spender, Sir Stephen

Henri Nouwen: His Life and Vision

By Michael C. O'Laughlin

John Donne and His World (Pictorial Biography S.)

By Parker, Derek

No Ordinary Man: The Life and Times of Miguel De Cervantes

By McCrory, Donald P.

12 Edmonstone Street

By Malouf, David

The Island: A Journey to Sakhalin (Century Travellers Series)

By Anton Chekhov, Irina Ratushinskaya, Luba Terpak, Michael Terpak

Pushkin: A Biography

By Binyon, T. J.

Gift from the Sea: 50th-Anniversary Edition

By Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, Uthemann, Ernest, Korsig, Bodo, Ammer, Andreas, Niemann, Norbert, Peltzer, Ulrich

Mr Foote's Other Leg: Comedy, tragedy and murder in Georgian London

By Ian Kelly

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley

By Gordon, Charlotte

West's World: The Life and Times of Rebecca West

By Lorna Gibb

The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath

By Gail Crowther

Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music

By Engle, MS Margarita, Lopez, Rafael

A Man Without a Country: A Memoir of Life in George W. Bush's America

By Vonnegut, Kurt

Young Emma (Coronet Books)

By Davies, W. H.

101 Poems to Get You Through the Day and Night: A Survival Kit for Modern Life

By Goodwin, Daisy

Austerlitz (Penguin Essentials)

By Sebald, W.G., W. G., Bell, Anthea

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth

By Wilson, Frances

Betjeman Country

By Delaney, Frank

Stuff

By Rowson, Martin

Fen Boy First

By Storey, Edward

Blue Remembered Hills

By Sutcliff, Rosemary, Bell, John

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym: A Times Book of the Year 2021

By Byrne, Paula

Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson

By Coe, Jonathan

Georgette Heyer's Regency World

By Kloester, Jennifer

Order Out Of Chaos: The Autobiographical Works of Maya Angelou

By McPherson, Dolly