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The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels

By Pamuk, Orhan, Dikbas, Nazim

Chaucer's Poetry: An Anthology for the Modern Reader

By Donaldson

The Perfect Stranger (Lives & letters)

By P. J. Kavanagh

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

By Trethewey, Natasha

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Perennial Classics)

By Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich

Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing

By Clare, Horatio

Such Stuff: A Story-maker's Inspiration

By Morpurgo, Sir Michael, Foreman, Michael

Granta 161: Sister, Brother

By Rausing, Sigrid

Poetry and Prose (Golden Age of Spiritual Writing): 11

By Thomas Traherne, Denise Inge

Prometheus: The Life of Balzac

By Maurois, Andre

Set Me On Fire: A Poem For Every Feeling

By Risbridger, Ella

Pushkin’s Button

By Vitale, Serena, Goldstein, Ann

Have Knife, Will Travel: Poems from a surgeon on cancer, cake and crossing continents

By Bhattacharya, Satya

One Day I Will Write About This Place

By Wainaina, Binyavanga

Lunch with the FT: 52 Classic Interviews

By Barber, Lionel

The Summing Up

By Maugham, W. Somerset

Pocket Facts: Space Travel

Long Life: Memoirs

By Nicolson MBE, Nigel

The Music Room

By Fiennes, WILLIAM

The Secret Life Of Oscar Wilde

By Mckenna, Neil

Point To Point Navigation: A Memoir

By Vidal, Gore

Kerouac: A Biography

By Charters, Ann

Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life

By King, Bruce

Doctor Glas

By Soderberg, Hjalmar

Jane Austen: An Unrequited Love

By Andrew Norman

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