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Letters from London (Vintage International)

By Barnes, Julian

W. Somerset Maugham and His World

By Raphael, Frederick

The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult

By Walker, Alice

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

By McCourt, Frank

'Tis: A Memoir (Frank McCourt Memoirs)

By McCourt, Frank

The Character of the Poet: Wordsworth in "The Prelude" (Princeton Legacy Library)

By Onorato, Richard J.

What W. H. Auden Can Do for You (Writers on Writers): 5

By McCall Smith, Alexander

Chaucer: A European Life

By Marion Turner

The Natural History of Edward Lear, New Edition

By Peck, Robert McCracken, Attenborough, David

Selected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

By Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Forster, Margaret, Forster, Margaret

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

By Bakewell, Sarah

Wild Mary: The Life Of Mary Wesley

By Marnham, Patrick

Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995

By Murdoch, Iris

The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography

By Gordon, Edmund

Charleston: Past and Present

By Garnett, Angelica, Garnett, Henrietta, Bell, Quentin, Shone, R

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

By Walls, Jeannette

Betjeman Country

By Frank Delaney, Leonora Ison, James Ravilious

Young Betjeman

By Hillier, Bevis

Summoned by Bells

By Betjeman, John

Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries, 1979-1981

By Lees-Milne, James

Byron: Life and Legend

By MacCarthy, Fiona

Summoned by Bells: A Verse Autobiography

By Betjeman, John

Trains and Buttered Toast

By John Betjeman, Stephen Games

Ancient as the Hills: Diaries, 1973-1974

By Lees-Milne, James

Running for the Hills: A Family Story

By Clare, Horatio

Betjeman: The Bonus of Laughter

By Hillier, Bevis

Dr. Johnson's Dictionary: The Book That Defined the World: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World

By Henry Hitchings

Beatrix Potter Artist, Storyteller and Countrywoman

By Taylor, Judy

'Tis: a Memoir: The sequel to Angela's Ashes

By McCourt, Frank

Chekhov: Scenes from a Life

By Bartlett, Rosamund