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Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

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Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Stage Directions: Writing on Theatre 1970-2008

Stage Directions: Writing on Theatre 1970-2008

Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas

Talking about Detective Fiction

Country Girl

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels

The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir

Writing Home

In Parenthesis (Poets of the Great War)

Places I've Taken My Body

The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall

A Preface to Spenser (Preface Books)

Moments of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical Writings

The World of Charles Dickens (Panther S.)

Samuel Pepys: The Man in the Making v. 1 (Panther Books)

The life of William Blake

Betjeman Country

Aldous Huxley: The Apparent Stability, 1894-1939 v. 1 (Paladin Books)

Aldous Huxley: The Turning Points, 1939-63 v. 2 (Paladin Books)

Robert Graves: His Life and Work (Paladin Books)

Necessary Secrets: The First Volume of Elizabeth Smart's Journals

The Greatest: Muhammad Ali

The Cat Who Came in from the Cold

Kate's Daughter: The Real Catherine Cookson

Chaucer's Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury
