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Palimpsest: A Memoir

By Vidal, Gore

The Other Side

By Johnson, Lacy M

Pushkin’s Button

By Vitale, Serena

South From Granada (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Brenan, Gerald, Stewart, Chris

Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy (Penguin Classics)

By Tolstoy, Leo, Parini, Jay

A Life in Letters

By Wordsworth, WILLIAM, Barker, Juliet

Muriel Spark: The Biography

By Stannard, Martin

Floire ET Blanchefleur

By Robert d'Orbigny, Leclanche, Jean-Luc

Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life

By Robbins, Tom

And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life

By Shields, J., Charles

Sailing by Starlight: In Search of Treasure Island and Robert Louis Stevenson (Armchair Traveller)

By Alex Capus

By Jack Rosenthal: An Autobiography in Six Acts

By Jack Rosenthal, Amy Rosenthal, Maureen Lipman

Anna Sewell: The Woman Who Wrote Black Beauty

By Chitty

T. S. Eliot (Lives and Legacies)

By Raine, Craig

The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years

By James, Clive

Alistair MacLean

By Webster, Jack

Oeuvres

By Desnos, Robert

A Mad World, My Masters: Tales from a Traveller's Life

By Simpson, John

Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's 'Journey Out of Essex'

By Sinclair, Iain

Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape

By Lee, Laurie

Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett

By Bennett, Alan

The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son

By Conroy, Pat

Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure, The

By C.D. Rose, Andrew Gallix

Fathers and Sons

By Waugh, Alexander

Pages From The Goncourt Journals (New York Review Books Classics)

By De Goncourt, Edmond and Jules, Baldick, Robert, Dyer, Geoff

George Eliot: A Life

By Ashton, Rosemary

This is How You Disappear: A Book of Elegies

By Jeremy Reed, Reed, Jeremy

The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir

By Pam Ayres, Ayres, Pam

Walden: Henry David Thoreau (Vintage Classics)

By Thoreau, Henry David

James Joyce (Oxford Lives)

By Ellmann, Richard