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Notes of a Dirty Old Man

By Bukowski, Charles

The Grassling

By Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

Bodies In Motion and At Rest

By Thomas Lynch

Daphne: A Daughter's Memoir

By Flavia Leng

Leonard Cohen: A Life in Art

By Ira Bruce Nadel

Life of Charlotte Bronte

By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Book of Longing

By Leonard Cohen

Dark Night of the Soul: A Masterpiece in the Literature of Mysticism by St. John of the Cross

By E. Allison Peers

A Moment of War

By Laurie Lee

Melbourne

By Sophie Cunningham

The Biographer's Moustache

By Kingsley Amis

Making an Exhibition of Myself: the autobiography of Peter Hall: The Autobiography of Peter Hall

By Peter Hall

Maud Gonne: Lucky Eyes and a High Heart

By Nancy Cardozo

Sean O'Casey: A Life

By Garry O'Connor

Creaturely And Other Essays

By Devin Johnston

Travels Through Stuart Britain: The Adventures of John Taylor, the Water Poet

By John H. Chandler

Ian Fleming: The man who created James Bond

By Andrew Lycett

The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett

By Nathan Ward

The Sexual Life of Catherine M.

By Millet, Catherine, Hunter, Adriana

Cautionary Verses

By Hilaire Belloc

Let Me Tell You What I Mean

By Joan Didion

Travel with William Wilberforce: The Friend of Humanity

By Kevin Belmonte

Broken Biscuit

By John Cowell

Hellfire And Herring: A childhood remembered

By Mr Christopher Rush

A Child of War

By George MacBeth

The Secret Orchard of Roger Ackerley

By Diana Petre

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

By Hitchens, Christopher

The Life of Samuel Johnson

By James Boswell, Dr Angus Calder, Tom Griffith

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

By Sarah Watling

The Sins of G K Chesterton

By Richard Ingrams