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Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006

By Gore Vidal

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

By Hitchens, Christopher

The Invisible Man (Ladybird Children's Classics)

By Wells, H. G., H.G. Wells, Terry Gabbey, J. Collins

Ariel (Faber Paperbacks)

By Sylvia Plath

Charlotte Mew: and Her Friends

By Penelope Fitzgerald, Michele Roberts

William Blake

By Kathleen Raine

Shakespeare's Language

By Frank Kermode

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

By Laura Thompson

True Lives: Hans Christian Andersen

By Andrew Langley

The Draw of the Sea

By Wyl Menmuir

First World War Poets

By Alan Judd, David Crane

La gloire de mon père

By Marcel Pagnol

Ernest Hemingway: A Biography

By Mary V Dearborn

The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

By Adam Nicolson

Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961

By Paul Hendrickson

How it Was

By Mary Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

By Anthony Burgess

The Shaming of the Strong

By Sarah Williams

Tom Paine: A Political Life

By John Keane

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