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Tony Harrison (Writers & Their Work)

By Kelleher, Joe

The Girl from Leam Lane: The Life and Writing of Catherine Cookson

By Dudgeon, Piers

Capote:A Biography

By Clarke, Gerald

Young Betjeman

By Hillier, Bevis

Ibsen

By Meyer, Michael

A Lot to Ask: a Life of Barbara Pym

By Hazel Holt

The War Poets: Lives and Writings of the 1914-18 War Poets

By Giddings, Robert

In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of a Lost War

By Wolff, Tobias

In Search Of J. D. Salinger

By Hamilton, Ian

Secrets of the Flesh: a Life of Colette

By Thurman, Judith

Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius

By Belford, Barbara

Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976

By Thompson, Hunter S.

The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan

By Kenneth Tynan, John Lahr

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

By Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Fitzgerald, Zelda, Barks, Cathy W., Bryer, Jackson R.

The L.A. Diaries

By Brown, James

Shakespeare's Wife

By Greer, Dr. Germaine

Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot

By Anna Beer

Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes

By Mount, Ferdinand

Kenneth Grahame: An Innocent in the Wild Wood

By Prince, Alison

That Great Lucifer: Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh

By Irwin, Margaret

Sheridan's Nightingale: Story of Elizabeth Linley (Allison & Busby biography)

By Chedzoy, Alan

The Nonsense Verse of Edward Lear

By Lear, Edward, Lord, John Vernon, Lord, John Vernon

1926-51 (v. 1) (Letters)

By Betjeman, John, Lycett Green, Candida, Lycett Green, Candida

Paperweight

By Fry, Stephen

Milton in America

By Ackroyd, Peter

The Orton Diaries

By Orton, Joe, Lahr, John

Timebends: A Life

By Miller, Arthur

Blake

By Ackroyd, Peter

My Left Foot

By Brown, Christy

Letters To Felice

By Kafka, Franz