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Mom and Me and Mom

By Dr Maya Angelou

Gather Together In My Name

By Dr Maya Angelou

Torch in My Ear

By Canetti, Elias

You've Had Your Time

By Burgess, Anthony

Chaucer: Brief Lives

By Peter Ackroyd, Ackroyd, Peter

Play of the Eyes

By Canetti, Elias

Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution

By Todd, Professor Selina

Introducing Shakespeare (Penguin literary criticism)

By Harrison, G.

The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy

By Laye, Camara, Jones, Ernest, Kirkup, James

North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs Volume IV: More Unreliable Memoirs

By Clive James

Roald Dahl (Famous People Famous Lives)

By Fischel, Emma

Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother

By Sturrock, Donald

Dickens

By Ackroyd, Peter

Samuel Johnson: A Biography

By Martin, Peter

Shakespeare (Thames & Hudson Literary Lives)

By F. E. Halliday

Agatha Christie: A biography

By Janet Morgan, Morgan, Janet

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (New York Review Books Classics)

By Elizabeth Hardwick, Darryl Pinckney

Thomas Hardy: His Life and Work (Panther Books)

By Halliday, F.E.

Shakespeare (Life And Works)

By Christopher Martin

Writing Home

By Alan Bennett, Bennett, Alan

Shakespeare (Vintage Lives, 11)

By Burgess, Anthony

The Multimodal Writer: Creative Writing Across Genres and Media

By Barnard, Josie

Contemporary British Drama (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)

By Rees, Catherine

The Selected Poems of Cavafy (Penguin Classics)

By Cavafy, C. P., Sharon, Avi

The Civil War (Penguin Classics)

By Caesar, Julius

Year Of The King - An Actor's Diary and Sketchbook

By Sher, Antony., Antony

What Language Do I Dream In?: A Memoir

By Lappin, Elena

Nyx in the House of Night: Mythology, Folklore and Religion in the PC and Kristin Cast Vampyre Series

By P. C. Cast, Cast, Kristin, Dane, Jordan, Mahoney, Karen, Oliver, Jana, Zika, Christine, Sturgis, Amy H., Smith-Ready, Jeri, Steiber, Ellen, Lankford, Bryan, Browning, John Edgar, Galenorn, Yasmine, Faegen, Trinity

Charles Darwin (Critical Lives)

By J. David Archibald

Writing Song Lyrics: A Creative and Critical Approach (Approaches to Writing)

By Fosbraey, Glenn, Melrose, Andy