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The L.A. Diaries

By Brown, James

Shakespeare's Wife

By Greer, Dr. Germaine

Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot

By Anna Beer

Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes

By Mount, Ferdinand

Kenneth Grahame: An Innocent in the Wild Wood

By Prince, Alison

That Great Lucifer: Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh

By Irwin, Margaret

Sheridan's Nightingale: Story of Elizabeth Linley (Allison & Busby biography)

By Chedzoy, Alan

The Nonsense Verse of Edward Lear

By Lear, Edward, Lord, John Vernon, Lord, John Vernon

1926-51 (v. 1) (Letters)

By Betjeman, John, Lycett Green, Candida, Lycett Green, Candida

Paperweight

By Fry, Stephen

Milton in America

By Ackroyd, Peter

The Orton Diaries

By Orton, Joe, Lahr, John

Timebends: A Life

By Miller, Arthur

Blake

By Ackroyd, Peter

My Left Foot

By Brown, Christy

Letters To Felice

By Kafka, Franz

Hans Christian Andersen: 31 (Famous People)

By Fischel, Emma

Beatrix Potter (Famous People)

By Castor, Harriet

Writers (Famous Lives)

By Burns, Peggy

Poets (Favourite)

By Jones, Kate

Jane Austen (Pocket Biographies)

By Lefroy, Helen

The Brontes (Pocket Biographies)

By White, Kathryn

Roaring Boys: Shakespeare's Rat Pack: Playwrights and Players in Elizabethan and Jacobean England

By Judith Cook

The Ultimate Peter Rabbit: The Magical World of Beatrix Potter

By DK, DK

The J.R.R. Tolkien Miscellany (Miscellany (History Press))

By Robert S. Blackham

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure

By Palin, Michael

Wainwright: The Biography

By Davies, Hunter

Rebus's Scotland: A Personal Journey

By Ian Rankin, Tricia Malley, Ross Gillespie

Allen Ginsberg: A Biography

By Miles, Barry

How To Be Right: … in a world gone wrong

By O'Brien, James