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For the Islands I Sing: An Autobiography

By Mackay Brown, George

George Mackay Brown: The Life

By Fergusson, Maggie

C.L.R. James: Cricket's Philosopher King

By Dave Renton

Lytton Strachey: The New Biography

By Holroyd, Michael

Gore Vidal

By Kaplan, Fred

The Persian Expedition

By Xenophon, Cawkwell, George, Warner, Rex, George Cawkwell, Rex Warner

W.H.Auden: A Tribute

By Spender, Stephen

Homer (Inside the ancient world)

By Thorpe, Martin

Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages

By Phyllis Rose

Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father

By Mars-Jones, Adam

Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York

By Wolcott, James

A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits

By Cumming, Laura

The Letters of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

By Jeremy Treglown

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

By Johnson, Claudia L.

Who Wrote Bacon?: William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon and James I, a Mystery of the Twenty-first Century

By Ramsbotham, Richard

There and Then: The Travel Writing of James Salter

By Salter, James

The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress

By Frances Osborne

Blake

By Ackroyd, Peter

Memoirs (Condor Books)

By Neruda, Pablo, St.Martin, Hardie

Walking to Santiago

By Curry, Neil

Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography

By Egremont, Max

Grouped Frequency Word-list of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (Old English Ser. : No. 2)

By Madden, JF

Acquired for Development By... : A Hackney Anthology

By Gary Budden, Kit Caless

Based on a True Story

By Holden, Anthony

A Slender Reputation: An Autobiography

By Kathleen Hale

John le Carré: The Biography

By Sisman, Adam

The Letters of Kingsley Amis

By Leader, Zachary, Amis, Kingsley

Odd Boy Out: The ‘hilarious, eye-popping, unforgettable’ Sunday Times bestseller 2021

By Brandreth, Gyles

Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938: Always Your Friend

By MacBride, Maud Gonne, Yeats, W. B., White, Anna MacBride, Jeffares, A. Norman, MacBride White, Anna

Sea Fever: The True Adventures that Inspired our Greatest Maritime Authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway

By Jefferson, Sam