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Kate's Daughter: The Real Catherine Cookson

By Piers Dudgeon

Chaucer's Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury

By Strohm, Anna S Garbedian Professor of Humanities Paul

Now We Are Sixty

By Matthew, Christopher

Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic [First American Edition]

By Graves, Richard Perceval

Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life

By John Mortimer

Wordsworth: A Life in Letters

By Barker, Juliet

Marcel Proust - A Life

By Tadie, Jean-Yves, Cameron, Euan

Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

By Tomalin, Claire

John Donne: The Reformed Soul

By Stubbs, John

Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man

By Tomalin, Claire

Charles Dickens: A Life

By Claire Tomalin, Tomalin, Claire

In Other Words

By Mortimer, John

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between

By Matar, Hisham

A SORT OF LIFE

By Greene, Graham

Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire

By Paul Sorrentino

Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky

By Safran, Gabriella

For Freedom's Battle

By Byron, George Gordon

Albert Camus: A Life

By Todd, Olivier, Todd, Clivier, Avry, Benjamin, Ivry

Girl, Interrupted

By Kaysen, Susanna

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