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Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman

By Nuala O'Faolain

Friends and Enemies: A Memoir

By Barbara Amiel

Bellow

By James Atlas

Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Shapes our World

By Andrew Hill

Voltaire: A Life

By Ian Davidson

The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

By Ramachandra Guha

My Son's Father: An Autobiography

By Dom Moraes

Joy of the Snow

By Elizabeth Goudge

Teddy Bears: An Anthology of Verse and Prose

I Love Churchill: 400 Fantastic Facts

By Cate Ludlow

Diaries

By Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Hart- Davis, Rupert Hart-Davis

In Search of Swallows and Amazons: Arthur Ransome's Lakeland

By Roger Wardale

Shakespeare's Professional Career

By Peter Thomson (University of Exeter)

William Shakespeare: His Life and Times

By Dennis Kay

Agatha Christie's True Crime Inspirations: Stranger Than Fiction

By Mike Holgate

The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

By Maya Jasanoff

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Pepys Anthology

By SAMUEL PEPYS, Robert Latham, Linnet Latham

The Aeneid: Bk. 9 (Bristol Latin Texts Series): Aeneid IX

By Virgil, Whiteley, J.

Virgil: Aeneid 10

By Virgil, S. J. Harrison (Mynors and Charles Oldham Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Mynors and Charles Oldham Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

Agatha Christie: The Sunday Times Bestseller

By Lucy Worsley

Come, Tell Me How You Live: Memories from archaeological expeditions in the mysterious Middle East

By Agatha Christie

Lady Gregory: An Irish Life

By Judith Hill

The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie: A biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie

By Charles Osborne, Agatha Christie

The Agatha Christie Miscellany

By Cathy Cook

Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making - Includes Two Unpublished Poirot Stories

By John Curran, Agatha Christie

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

By Bakewell, Sarah

Letters from My Father

By kenneth allsop, Amanda Allsop

Dante: The Poet, the Thinker, the Man

By Barbara Reynolds

Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction

By Germaine Greer

Shakespeare: The Lost Years

By E. A. J. Honigmann