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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

The Best of Me: David Sedaris

By Sedaris, David

Full Marks for Trying: An unlikely journey from the Raj to the rag trade

By Keenan, Brigid

Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie

By Valentine, Carla

The Colossus (Faber Poetry)

By Plath, Sylvia

Philip Sidney - A Double Life

By Stewart, Alan

Pushkin

By Binyon, T. J.

Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin

By James, Clive

Chaucer 1340-1400

By West, Richard

Love Walked in

By De Los Santos, Marisa

Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter

By Fraser, Lady Antonia

What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

By Radziwill, Carole

Coleridge: Early Visions

By Holmes, Richard

Unfollow: A Radio 4 Book of the Week Pick for June 2021

By Phelps-Roper, Megan

Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference: Essays on The Prelude (Clarendon Paperbacks)

By Jacobus, Mary