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Robinson Jeffers, Poet of California

By Karman, James

Basingstoke and Its Contribution to World Culture

The End of Youth: The Life and Work of Alain-Fournier

By Robert Gibson

The Silence at the Song's End

By Nicholas Heiney, Libby Purves, Duncan Wu, book jacket by Alan Parker

Man Bites Talking Dog

By Dunne, Colin

Mary Tighe

By O'Connell, Miranda

Coward: A Speculative Play About the Life of Noël Coward

By James Martin Charlton

The Earthly Paradise of William Morris

By Clare Gibson

Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life (South Dakota Biographies)

By Pamela Smith Hill

Mentor: A Memoir

By Grimes, Tom

The Call of the Free: An adaptation of Riḍā al-Khafājī’s Ṣawt al-Ḥurr al-Riyāḥi (The ʿĀshūrāʾ Literature Series)

By Naqavi, Sayyid Amjad H. Shah

The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale

By Atlas, James

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

By Lee, Laurie

The Life And Letters Of Washington Irving, Volume 1

By Irving, Pierre Munroe

And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life

By J., Charles Shields

The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution

By Heyman, Stephen

Reading Shakespeare

By Alexander, Michael

I Saw Ramallah

By Barghauthai, Muraid

Ted Hughes: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

By Roberts, Neil

Studying Poetry

By SPURR, Professor Barry

The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography (Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies)

By Lewalski, Barbara K.

Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras: A Biography

By Moorcroft Wilson, Dr Jean

E. M. Forster: A New Life

By Moffat, Wendy

John le Carré: The Biography

By Sisman, Adam

Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan

By Buchan, Ursula

Stieg and Me: Memories of my Life with Stieg Larsson

By Gabrielsson, Eva, Colombani, Marie-Francoise

Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

By Gregory, Lady Augusta

Mark Twain

By Powers, Ron

Dancing with Ophelia: Reconnecting Madness, Creativity, and Love (Excelsior Editions)

By Petrolle, Jeanne Ellen

Trains and Buttered Toast

By Betjeman, John