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Outrageous Fortune: A True story of theatrical success, unfaithful love and legal disaster

By Frisby, Terence

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

By Steinbeck, John

Patch Work: WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE

By Wilcox, Claire

Country Girl

By O'Brien, Edna

Love Without End: A Story of Heloise and Abelard

By Bragg, Melvyn

The Passion of Emily Dickinson

By Farr, Judith

Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85

By Larkin, Philip, Thwaite, Anthony

Before Night Falls: A Memoir

By Arenas, Reinaldo, Koch, Dolores M.

Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation

By Stuart Kelly

The Boy Between: A Mother and Son’s Journey From a World Gone Grey

By Hartley, Josiah, Prowse, Amanda

T. S. Eliot: Selected Poems

By Eliot, T. S., T. S. Eliot (author) A. N. Jeffares (editor) M. Herbert (notes)

Bel-Ami

By Maupassant, Guy, Parmee, Douglas

Manifesto: A radically honest and inspirational memoir from the Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

By Evaristo, Bernardine

The Broken House: Growing up Under Hitler – The Lost Masterpiece

By Kruger, Horst, Whiteside, Shaun

Philip Larkin: A Writer"s Life

By Motion, Andrew, Sir Andrew, Andrew Motion

The Liars' Club

By Karr, Mary

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

By Trethewey, Natasha

Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat

By Oliver Soden

The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France

By Harris, Ruth

As Once In May (VMC)

By White, Antonia

The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir (New Directions Paperbook)

By Perloff, Marjorie

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

By Nabokov, Vladimir

Bernard Shaw: Volume 2 1898 - 1918 the Pursuit of Power: v. 2

By Holroyd, Michael

Douglas Jerrold: A Life (1803-1857)

By Slater, Michael

Knowing Dickens

By Bodenheimer, Rosemarie

Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings

By Andrews, Malcolm

Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Physical Sciences: Poetical Matter (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)

By Tate, Gregory

Beckett In Dublin

By Wilmer, Steve, Lawlor, Tom

Yeats at Songs and Choruses

By Clark, David R.

The Sappho Companion

By Reynolds, M