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A Preface to Keats (Preface Books)

By Watts, Prof Cedric

Meet Me in Buenos Aires

By Marlene Hobsbawm

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse (Casebooks Series)

By Beja, Morris

The Writing Life

By Dillard, Annie

J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography

By Carpenter, Humphrey

Failure in British Government: Politics of the Poll Tax

By Butler, David, etc., Adonis, Andrew, Travers, Tony

Dear Cathy ... Love, Mary: The Year We Grew Up - Tender, Funny and Revealing Letters from 1980s Ireland

By Conlon, Catherine, Phelan, Mary

Girl, Interrupted

By Kaysen, Susanna

My Childhood (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Maxim Gorky, R. Wilks

Arthur Miller

By Bigsby, Christopher

Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard

By Greene, Richard

A Whiff of Burnt Boats

By Trease, Geoffrey

Auden

By Davenport-Hines, R. P. T.

The Time Of Our Time

By Mailer, Norman

Passionate Minds

By Bodanis, David

Help Me!: How Self-Help Has Not Changed My Life

By Power, Marianne

Approximately Nowhere

By Hofmann, Michael

A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling

By V.S. Naipaul

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir (Frank McCourt Memoirs)

By McCourt, Frank

'Tis: A Memoir (Frank McCourt Memoirs)

By McCourt, Frank

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

By Michael Gorra

T.S.Eliot: A Study in Character and Style

By Bush, Ronald

The Basketball Diaries

By Carroll, Jim

The Shakespeare Conspiracy

By Keatman, Martin, Phillips, Graham

The Redress of Poetry

By Heaney, Seamus

Proust on Art and Literature

By Proust, Marcel, Warner, Sylvia Townsend, Kilmartin, Terence

The Blue Hour: A Portrait of Jean Rhys

By Pizzichini, Lilian

The Collected Poems

By Sylvia Plath

The Art of Literary Biography

By Batchelor, John J., John

Moscow Memoirs

By Gerstein, Emma