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The Man Who Left Too Soon - the Life and Works of Stieg Larsson

By Barry Forshaw

Well-Kept Secrets: The Story of William Wordsworth

By Andrew Wordsworth

Letter To My Daughter

By Angelou, Dr Maya

Letter To My Daughter

By Dr Maya Angelou

Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami

By Deraniyagala, Sonali

Mapping Shakespeare: An exploration of Shakespeare’s worlds through maps

By Black, Jeremy

Stone Girl Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning of Lyme Regis

By Anholt, Laurence, Moxley, Sheila

Telling Tales

By Bennett, Alan

Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert

By Drury, John

The Inimitable P.G.Wodehouse: The Story of His Life and a Treasury of His Wit

By Mark Hichens

Proust'S Overcoat

By Foschini, Lorenza

The Laughter of Foxes: A Study of Ted Hughes (Liverpool English Texts and Studies): 38

By Keith Sagar

The Female Body in Medicine and Literature

By Andrew Mangham, Andrew Mangham, Greta Depledge

Howards End is on the Landing: A year of reading from home

By Susan Hill

Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation

By Stuart Kelly

The Smoking Diaries

By Gray, Simon

The Smoking Diaries Volume 2: The Year Of The Jouncer

By Gray, Simon

The Smoking Diaries Volume 3: The Last Cigarette

By Gray, Simon

Coda

By Gray, Simon

Stet: An Editor's Life

By Diana Athill

Until Further Notice, I am Alive

By Tom Lubbock

The World of Charles Dickens: The Life, Times and Works of the Great Victorian Novelist

By Martin Fido

The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink

By Olivia Laing

Cofio Grav

By Keith Davies

How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities

By Sutherland, John

Mr Foote's Other Leg (NHB Modern Plays)

By Ian Kelly

The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood

By Kevin Crossley-Holland

The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years

By Edited by Dr Elizabeth Miller and Dacre Stoker

Maeve Binchy: The Biography

By Piers Dudgeon

Kahlil Gibran: Man and Poet

By Suheil Bushrui, Joe Jenkins