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The Grasmere Journals

By Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof

Wilfred Owen

By Dominic Hibbard

Christina Rossetti

By Frances Thomas

Closer Look at Ariel: Memory of Sylvia Plath

By Nancy Hunter Steiner

W. H. Auden: 'The Language of Learning and the Language of Love': Uncollected Writings, New Interpretations

By Katherine Bucknell, Nicholas Jenkins (Co-founders of the W. H. Auden Society, Co-founders of the W. H. Auden Society)

Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk

By Christina Hardyment

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette

By Judith Thurman

The Perils of the Pushy Parents: A Cautionary Tale

By Johnson, Boris

All Creatures Great and Small. The first Herriot omnibus edition

By Herriot, James

If Only They Could Talk

By Herriot, James

The Essential Spike Milligan

By Compiled By Alexander Games, Spike Milligan, Alexander Games, Eddie Izzard

Chekhov

By Nicholas Worrall

Worm Looks for Lunch: A playscript about Worm’s adventure on his search for lunch. (Collins Big Cat)

By Julia Donaldson, Cliff Moon, Martin Remphry

Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl

By Donald Sturrock

My Name Is Why

By Lemn Sissay

Dear Mr. Shaw: Correspondence of George Bernard Shaw

By Vivian Elliot

Painted Shadow: A Life of Vivienne Eliot

By Carole Seymour-Jones

In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir

By Ngugi wa Thiong'o

The Snows of Yesteryear

By Gregor Von Rezzori, John Banville, H. F. Broch de Rothermann

James Herbert: An Authorised Biography

By Craig Cabell

Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir

By Amy Tan

Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie

By Laurie Lee

Edith Wharton

By Hermione Lee

Diaries, 1847-1910

By LEO TOLSTOY, R. F. Christian

Fantastic Mr Dahl

By Michael Rosen, Quentin Blake

Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen

By Wilcox, Helen, Graham, Elspeth, Hobby, Elaine, Hind, Hilary

Life on the Mississippi

By Mark Twain

Humphry Davy: Life Beyond the Lamp: Poet and Philosopher

By Raymond Lamont-Brown

Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

By Lucy Malleson

My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism

By Marr, Andrew