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A Life of Matthew Arnold

By Murray, Nicholas

Henry Pond the Poet (Read Alone)

By King-Smith, Dick

Virginia Woolf: A Beginner's Guide (BGKF)

By Wisker, Gina

Sylvia Plath: A Beginner's Guide (BGKF)

By Wisker, Gina

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

By King, Stephen

Urban Grimshaw and The Shed Crew

By Hare, Bernard

A Plea For Eros

By Hustvedt, Siri, Siri Hustvedt

12 Books That Changed The World: How words and wisdom have shaped our lives

By Melvyn Bragg

Ted Hughes A Beg Guide (BGKF)

By Bell, Charlie

Steps Along Hope Street: My Life in Cricket, the Church and the Inner City

By Sheppard, David

Steps Along Hope Street

By Sheppard, David

Pilgrim State

By Walker, Jacqueline

The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves

By Siri Hustvedt

Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways

By Hemingway, Valerie

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

By Dean, Michelle

If This Is a Man / The Truce

By Levi, Primo, Woolf, Stuart, Primo Levi

T.S.Eliot (Abacus Books)

By Ackroyd, Peter

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

By Slovo, Gillian

Two Lives

By Seth, Vikram

Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood

By McNish, Hollie

V. N.: Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov

By Field, Andrew

A Life Drawing

By Hughes, Shirley

Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling

By Gilmour, David

Poets in Their Youth

By Simpson, Eileen

Young Eliot: From St. Louis to the Waste Land

By Crawford, Professor of Modern Scottish Literature Robert

One Art: Letters

By Bishop, Elizabeth

Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara: A Memoir

By Lesueur, Joe

Fierce Attachments: A Memoir (FSG Classics)

By Gornick, Vivian

Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography

By James, P. D.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A Hearthbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

By Eggers, Dave