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Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work

By Currey, Mason

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

By Ian Kelly

An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India

By Naipaul, Sir V. S.

Homer (Inside the ancient world)

By Thorpe, Martin, Martin Thorpe

The Complete Poems: New Wessex Edition

By Thomas Hardy, James Gibson

An Edgar Allan Poe Companion: A Guide to the Short Stories, Romances and Essays (Literary Companions)

By Hammond, J.R.

A Tennyson Companion: Life and Works (Literary Companions)

By Pinion, F. B.

Rebecca West: A Life

By Glendinning, Victoria, Victoria Glendinning

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

By Malcolm, Janet

Terry Eagleton (Transitions)

By Alderson, Dr David, David Alderson

Coleridge: Early Visions v. 1

By Holmes, Richard

The Joy of the Snow (Coronet Books)

By Goudge, Elizabeth

John Keats: A Life

By Coote, Stephen

John Keats: A Life

By Coote, Stephen

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