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Wilkie Collins

By Peter Ackroyd

Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

By Marquez, Gabriel Garcia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In Defence of Britain's Middle Eastern Empire: A Life of Sir Gilbert Clayton

By Timothy Paris

The Common Years

By Jilly Cooper

Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat

By Oliver Soden

The Heart Of A Woman

By Dr Maya Angelou

A Song Flung Up to Heaven

By Dr Maya Angelou

All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

By Dr Maya Angelou

Singin' & Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

By Maya Angelou

BY JACK ROSENTHAL

By Jack Rosenthal

New Fame New Love: John Betjeman

By Bevis Hillier

Michael Morpurgo: War Child to War Horse

By Maggie Fergusson

Plum Sauce: A Wodehouse Companion

By Richard Usborne

Star of the Morning: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope

By Kirsten Ellis

George MacKay Brown: The Wound and the Gift

By Ron Ferguson

Between the Covers: Jilly Cooper on sex, socialising and survival

By Jilly Cooper

Favourite Poems: of the National Trust

By Jane McMorland Hunter, Jane Robbins, National Trust Books

Barefoot in Mullyneeny: A Boy's Journey Towards Belonging

By bryan gallagher

Dylan the Bard: A Life of Dylan Thomas

By Andrew Sinclair

Red Sky at Sunrise: "Cider with Rosie", "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning" and "Moment of War"

By Laurie Lee

Out of the Woodshed: Portrait of Stella Gibbons

By Reggie Oliver

Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales

By Marta McDowell

Just Sayin': My Life In Words

By Malorie Blackman

Orwell's Roses

By Rebecca Solnit (Y)

The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell

By HILARY SPURLING

Windward Family: An atlas of love, loss and belonging

By Alexis Keir

What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare

By Andrew McConnell Stott (University of Southern California)

Larousse Dictionary of Writers

By Rosemary Goring

Alasdair MacIntyre: Critic of Modernity

By Peter Martin McMylor

Thomas Hardy

By Timothy Hands