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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

Plainer Still

By Catherine Cookson

Agatha Christie: The Sunday Times Bestseller

By Lucy Worsley

THE DANCE

By Mountain

Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet

By Elaine Feinstein

John Buchan: The Presbyterian Cavalier

By Andrew Lownie

Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing it in the Sandwich Islands Hawaii in the 1860's

By Mark Twain, A.G. Day

Betjeman

By A.N. Wilson

The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Author of The Railway Children

By Eleanor Fitzsimons

Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises

By A. N. Wilson

Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith

By Mark E. Smith

William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll

By Casey Rae