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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

The Child that Books Built

By Spufford, Francis

Life of Dante (Hesperus Classics)

By Boccaccio, Giovanni, Wilson, A.N., Nichols, J.G.

The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound

By Torrey M.D., E. Fuller

So They Call You Pisher!: A Memoir

By Michael Rosen

Fight, Kick And Bite: Life and Work of Dennis Potter

By Stephen Gilbert, W

John Osborne: A Patriot for Us

By Heilpern, John

Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal

By Alvarez, Al

Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship (New York Review Books Classics)

By Gershom Scholem

The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss

By Nick Coleman

Next Year Will be Better: A Memoir of England in the 1950s

By John Lucas

The Original Michael Frayn: Satirical Essays (Methuen Humour Classics)

By Frayn, Michael, Fenton, James

Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World

By Bloom, Alexander

Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books

By Schwartz, Lynne Sharon