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Pushkin: A Biography

By Binyon, T. J.

Gift from the Sea: 50th-Anniversary Edition

By Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, Uthemann, Ernest, Korsig, Bodo, Ammer, Andreas, Niemann, Norbert, Peltzer, Ulrich

Mr Foote's Other Leg: Comedy, tragedy and murder in Georgian London

By Ian Kelly

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley

By Gordon, Charlotte

West's World: The Life and Times of Rebecca West

By Lorna Gibb

The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath

By Gail Crowther

Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music

By Engle, MS Margarita, Lopez, Rafael

A Man Without a Country: A Memoir of Life in George W. Bush's America

By Vonnegut, Kurt

Young Emma (Coronet Books)

By Davies, W. H.

101 Poems to Get You Through the Day and Night: A Survival Kit for Modern Life

By Goodwin, Daisy

Austerlitz (Penguin Essentials)

By Sebald, W.G., W. G., Bell, Anthea

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth

By Wilson, Frances

Betjeman Country

By Delaney, Frank

Stuff

By Rowson, Martin

Fen Boy First

By Storey, Edward

Blue Remembered Hills

By Sutcliff, Rosemary, Bell, John

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym: A Times Book of the Year 2021

By Byrne, Paula

Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson

By Coe, Jonathan

Georgette Heyer's Regency World

By Kloester, Jennifer

Order Out Of Chaos: The Autobiographical Works of Maya Angelou

By McPherson, Dolly

Small Memories

By Saramago, Jose, Costa, Margaret Jull Costa

The Book of Disquiet

By Pessoa, Fernando, Zenith, Richard

War

By Dahl, Roald

Capote: A Biography

By Clarke, Gerald

My Lives

By White, Edmund

Letters Between Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry

By Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, Cherry A Hankin [editor]

Undertones of War (Modern Classics)

By Blunden, Edmund

The Diary of Anais Nin 1939-1944: Vol. 3 (1939-1944): 03

By Nin, Anais

The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-30 v. 3 (Penguin Classics)

By Bell, Anne, Woolf, Virginia

The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws

By Drabble