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Seeing Things

By Postgate, Oliver, Fry, Stephen, Daniel

The Orwell Diaries (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Orwell, George, Davison, Peter

Rimbaud

By Robb, Graham

Erskine Childers: A Biography

By Ring, Jim

Offbeat Collaborating with Kerouac

By David Amram

Memoirs of a Highland Lady

By Grant, Elizabeth, Tod, Andrew

An Introduction to Chaucer

By Brewer, D.

Chekhov's Great Plays: A Critical Anthology

By Jean-Pierre Barricelli

Village Christmas: And Other Notes on the English Year (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Lee, Laurie

Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart

By Martin, Robert Bernard

Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas

By Thomas, Caitlin

In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of a Lost War

By Wolff, Tobias

George Crabbe: An English Life

By Powell, Neil

Orwell: The Transformation (Paladin Book)

By Stansky, Peter, Abrahams, WILLIAM

Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters (Literary Biographies S.)

By Steegmuller, Francis

Ic3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain

By Newland, Courttia, Sesay, Kadija

I Wanna Be Yours: John Cooper Clarke

By Cooper Clarke, John

The White Album

By Didion, Joan

William Morris

By Parry, Linda

Outrageous Fortune: A True story of theatrical success, unfaithful love and legal disaster

By Frisby, Terence

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

By Steinbeck, John

Patch Work: WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE

By Wilcox, Claire

Country Girl

By O'Brien, Edna

Love Without End: A Story of Heloise and Abelard

By Bragg, Melvyn

The Passion of Emily Dickinson

By Farr, Judith

Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85

By Larkin, Philip, Thwaite, Anthony

Before Night Falls: A Memoir

By Arenas, Reinaldo, Koch, Dolores M.

Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation

By Stuart Kelly

The Boy Between: A Mother and Son’s Journey From a World Gone Grey

By Hartley, Josiah, Prowse, Amanda

T. S. Eliot: Selected Poems

By Eliot, T. S., T. S. Eliot (author) A. N. Jeffares (editor) M. Herbert (notes)