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The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (Vintage International)

By Roth, Philip

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

By Malcolm, J., Ms Janet

Letters from London (Vintage International)

By Barnes, Julian

W. Somerset Maugham and His World

By Raphael, Frederick

The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult

By Walker, Alice

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

By McCourt, Frank

'Tis: A Memoir (Frank McCourt Memoirs)

By McCourt, Frank

The Character of the Poet: Wordsworth in "The Prelude" (Princeton Legacy Library)

By Onorato, Richard J.

What W. H. Auden Can Do for You (Writers on Writers): 5

By McCall Smith, Alexander

Chaucer: A European Life

By Marion Turner

The Natural History of Edward Lear, New Edition

By Peck, Robert McCracken, Attenborough, David

Selected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

By Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Forster, Margaret, Forster, Margaret

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

By Bakewell, Sarah

Wild Mary: The Life Of Mary Wesley

By Marnham, Patrick

Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995

By Murdoch, Iris

The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography

By Gordon, Edmund

Charleston: Past and Present

By Garnett, Angelica, Garnett, Henrietta, Bell, Quentin, Shone, R

The Last Leopard: Life of Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

By Gilmour, David

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Bondage of Opium

By Lefebure, Molly

Aldous Huxley. A Biography. vol. 1 : The Apparent Stability, 1894-1939

By Bedford, Sybille

Aldous Huxley A Biography. Vol. 2: The Turning Points 1939-1963

By Bedford, Sybille

Jan Morris (Writers of Wales) (Writers of Wales S.)

By Clements, Paul

Supernatural Proust: Myth and Metaphor in La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (French and Francophone Studies)

By Margaret Topping

Notebooks: v.3

By Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-73

By Saumarez Smith, John

Dickens' Christmas: A Victorian Celebration

By Callow, Simon

Life Hacks: Uncommon Solutions to Common Problems

By Staff, Annabel

Robert Burns: A Portrait of Scotland's National Bard with a Selection of His Songs and Verse

By Fraser, Elisabeth

Joseph Conrad (British Library Writers' Lives) (British Library Writers' Lives S.)

By Chris Fletcher

Mary Shelley (British Library Writers' Lives) (British Library Writers' Lives S.)

By Martin Garrett