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Fanny Hill in Bombay: The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland

By Hal Gladfelder (School of Arts, History, and Cultures)

Joyce and Ginnie: The Letters of Joyce Grenfell and Virginia Graham

By Joyce Grenfell, Virginia Graham, Janie Hampton

Treasures of Noel Coward

By Barry Day

Rupert Brooke: His Life and His Legend

By John Lehmann

Searching For Schindler

By Thomas Keneally

The Boy With No Shoes: A Memoir

By William Horwood

Swimmer

By Bill Broady

The Real Peter Pan: The Tragic Life of Michael Llewelyn Davies

By Piers Dudgeon

Come, Tell Me How You Live: An Archaeological Memoir

By Agatha Christie Mallowan

Betjeman: The Bonus of Laughter

By Bevis Hillier

Plum

By Hollie McNish

The Second I Saw You: The True Love Story of Rupert Brooke

By Lorna C. Beckett

Bruce Chatwin BC Only

The Victorians: Twelve Titans who Forged Britain

By Jacob Rees-Mogg

Zero to Sixty

By Gary Paulsen

Richard Strauss (Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.)

By Nice, David

Lord Rochester's Monkey: Biography of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

By Graham Greene

An Autobiography

By Agatha Christie

John Betjeman

By Greg Morse

I Promise to be Good: Letters of Arthur Rimbaud

By Arthur Rimbaud

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Bondage of Opium

By Molly Lefebure

The Bughouse: The poetry, politics and madness of Ezra Pound

By Daniel Swift

The Illustrated Summoned by Bells

By John Betjeman, Sir Hugh Casson

Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life

By Rose Tremain

A Slender Tree: Life of Alice Meynell

By June Badeni

Lady Gregory's Toothbrush

By Colm Toibin

The Music Room

By William Fiennes

William Shakespeare

By Rupert Christiansen

Forever England: Life of Rupert Brooke

By Mike Read

The Great Modern Poets

By Michael Schmidt