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The Literary Churchill

By Jonathan Rose

Natural History

By John Healey, Pliny the Elder

Fred Hoyle's Universe

By Jane Gregory (, Lecturer in Science Communication and Science Policy, University College London)

HG Wells

By Vincent Brome

The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street

By Charles Nicholl

H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life

By Michael Sherborne

Dreaming To Some Purpose

By Colin Wilson

All Will Be Well: A Memoir

By john mcgahern

South to a Very Old Place

By Albert Murray

The World of Louisa May Alcott

By William Anderson

Dry

By Augusten Burroughs

Wildflower: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Murder of Joan Root

By Mark Seal

Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing

By Jane Dunn

Great Boys: An African Childhood

By Tanure Ojaide

In Silent Moments

By Thomas F. Walsh

Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life

By Rose Tremain

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022

By Katherine Rundell

The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

By Sofia Tolstoy, Cathy Porter

Oscar Wilde

By Richard Ellmann

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

By Laurie Lee

China Diary

By Stephen Spender, David Hockney

Selected Poems

By W.H. Auden

As Much as I Dare: An Autobiography

By Arnold Wesker

Indirections

By Charles Brasch

A Better Class of Person: An Autobiography, 1929-56

By John Osborne

Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left

By John Newsinger

John Betjeman: The Biography

By Bevis Hillier

My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism

By Marr, Andrew

Edith Wharton (Writers and their Work)

By Janet Beer

Judith Kerr's Creatures: A Celebration of her Life and Work

By Judith Kerr