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In for a Penny: The Unauthorised Biography of Jeffrey Archer

By Mantle, Jonathan

Four French Holidays: Daphne Du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Rumer Godden, Margery Sharp and their novels inspired by France

By Hall, Anne, Schofield, Hugh

The Old Century and Seven More Years

By Sassoon, Siegfried

Tolkien, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia

By Day, David

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings n/e (Oxford World's Classics)

By De Quincey, Thomas, Morrison, Robert

The Best of Me: David Sedaris

By Sedaris, David

Full Marks for Trying: An unlikely journey from the Raj to the rag trade

By Keenan, Brigid

Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie

By Valentine, Carla

The Colossus (Faber Poetry)

By Plath, Sylvia

Philip Sidney - A Double Life

By Stewart, Alan

Pushkin

By Binyon, T. J.

Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin

By James, Clive

Chaucer 1340-1400

By West, Richard

Love Walked in

By De Los Santos, Marisa

Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter

By Fraser, Lady Antonia

What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

By Radziwill, Carole

Coleridge: Early Visions

By Holmes, Richard

Unfollow: A Radio 4 Book of the Week Pick for June 2021

By Phelps-Roper, Megan

Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference: Essays on The Prelude (Clarendon Paperbacks)

By Jacobus, Mary

BLUE NIGHTS

By Didion

The Dyer's Hand

By Auden, W.H.

Achievement of Brian Friel: No. 4 (Ulster Editions & Monographs)

By Peacock, Alan J.

Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett

By Knowlson, James

Elizabeth Bowen

By Lee, Hermione

The Orton Diaries

By Orton, Joe, Lahr, John

Dorothy Wordsworth

By Robert Gittings, Jo Manton, Gittings, Robert, Manton, Jo

Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman

By Dinshaw, Minoo

Hugh Miller: Stonemason, Geologist, Writer

By Taylor, Michael

Goethe (Life & Times)

By Peter Boerner

Virginia Woolf: A Biography

By Bell, Quentin