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The Outrun

By Amy Liptrot

The Abundance (Canons)

By Annie Dillard

Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936

By Volker Weidermann

You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of Brian Bilston

By Bilston, Brian

The Seven Good Years

By Etgar Keret

Have You Been Good?: A Memoir

By Vanessa Nicolson

Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter

By Diana Athill

Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter

By Diana Athill

Byron's Women

By Alexander Larman

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By Rubenhold, Hallie

My Shitty Twenties: A Memoir

By Morris, Emily

Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975

By Lodge, David

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

By Mangan, Lucy

Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

By Hudson, Kerry

Sleeping Letters

By Bragg, Marie-Elsa R.

Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

By Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter

By Matthew Dennison

On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures: An Adventure in Books

By Smith, Wilbur

Jane Austen: The Banker's Sister

By E. J. Clery

The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John Bingham

By Michael Jago

Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847–1947

By Lebrecht, Norman

When I Hit You: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

By Kandasamy, Meena

My Name Is Why

By Sissay, Lemn

The Flame

By Cohen, Leonard, Faggen, Robert, Pleshoyano, Alexandra, Cohen, Adam

The Man in the Red Coat

By Barnes, Julian

The Drama of Love, Life and Death in Shakespeare

By Holden, Anthony

Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the "Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

By Gaiman, Neil, Simpson, M.J., Dickson, David K.

Bad Blood: A Memoir

By Sage, Lorna

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

By Bloom, Harold

Rooms of their Own

By Nino Strachey