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Emlyn: A Sequel to 'George'

By Williams, Emlyn

Bird Cloud

By Proulx, Annie

Things I Didn't Know

By Hughes, Robert

So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald

By Fitzgerald, Penelope, Dooley, Terence

The Knox Brothers

By Fitzgerald, Penelope, Holmes

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

By Lee, Hermione

Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces, 1955-82

By Larkin, Philip

The Reckoning: The Murder Of Christopher Marlowe

By Nicholl, Charles

John Clare's Autobiographical Writings

By John Clare, Eric Robinson, John Lawrence

The Letters of Noel Coward (Diaries, Letters and Essays)

By Noel Coward, Barry Day

Right to Song: Life of John Clare

By Storey, Edward

For the Islands I Sing: An Autobiography

By Mackay Brown, George

George Mackay Brown: The Life

By Fergusson, Maggie

C.L.R. James: Cricket's Philosopher King

By Dave Renton

Lytton Strachey: The New Biography

By Holroyd, Michael

Gore Vidal

By Kaplan, Fred

The Persian Expedition

By Xenophon, Cawkwell, George, Warner, Rex, George Cawkwell, Rex Warner

W.H.Auden: A Tribute

By Spender, Stephen

Homer (Inside the ancient world)

By Thorpe, Martin

Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages

By Phyllis Rose

Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father

By Mars-Jones, Adam

Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York

By Wolcott, James

A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits

By Cumming, Laura

The Letters of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

By Jeremy Treglown

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

By Johnson, Claudia L.

Who Wrote Bacon?: William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon and James I, a Mystery of the Twenty-first Century

By Ramsbotham, Richard

There and Then: The Travel Writing of James Salter

By Salter, James

The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress

By Frances Osborne

Blake

By Ackroyd, Peter

Memoirs (Condor Books)

By Neruda, Pablo, St.Martin, Hardie