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Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth

By Brombert, Victor

Tolstoy: A Russian Life

By Bartlett, Writer and Translator Rosamund

Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller

By Daugherty, Tracy

Auden in Love

By Farnan, Dorothy J.

This Really Isn't About You

By Edelstein, Jean Hannah

The Bitter Taste of Victory: In the Ruins of the Reich

By Feigel, Lara

William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Schoenbaum, S.

Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion

By Ackroyd, Peter

The Work of William Morris

By Thompson, Paul

Where There's a Will

By Mortimer, John

The Secret Orchard of Roger Ackerley

By Petre, Diana

Portrait of the Writer: Literary Lives in Focus

By Goffredo Fofi

Portrait Of A Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson

By Nicolson, Nigel, Nicolson MBE, Sackville-West, Vita

THE WAY HOME: Atlas Anti-Classics

By Mathews, Harry

Baudelaire (Pelican S.)

By Starkie, Enid

Footsteps

By Holmes, Richard

Shakespeare: The Poet in his World

By Bradbrook, M. C.

Are You Somebody?: The Life and Times of Nuala O'Faolain

By O'Faolain, Nuala

Dante (Everyman Poetry): No. 49

By Alighieri, Dante, Lawrence, Anna

Brendan Behan

By O'Connor, Ulick

Paul Durcan's Diary

By Durcan, Paul

Shakespeare A to Z

By Boyce

Damned to Fame: Life of Samuel Beckett

By Knowlson, James

Second Readings : 52: From Beckett To Black Beauty

By Eileen Battersby

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (Penguin Classics S.)

By Fielding, Henry, Kaymer, Tom

The Golden Legend: Selections (Penguin Classics)

By di Voragine, Jacobo, Hamer, Richard, Stace, Christopher

Stevie Smith: a Critical Biography

By Spalding, Frances

Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me

By Clanchy, Kate

One Leg Over: Having Fun - Mostly - In Peace and War

By Robin Dalton

Scum of the Earth

By Arthur Koestler