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Larousse Dictionary of Writers

By Rosemary Goring

Alasdair MacIntyre: Critic of Modernity

By Peter Martin McMylor

Thomas Hardy

By Timothy Hands

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