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Black Boy (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions)

By Wright, Dr Richard, Wideman, John Edgar, Malcolm

The Life & Work of Harold Pinter

By Billington, Michael

Seeing Things

By Postgate, Oliver, Fry, Stephen, Daniel

The Orwell Diaries (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Orwell, George, Davison, Peter

Rimbaud

By Robb, Graham

Erskine Childers: A Biography

By Ring, Jim

Offbeat Collaborating with Kerouac

By David Amram

Memoirs of a Highland Lady

By Grant, Elizabeth, Tod, Andrew

An Introduction to Chaucer

By Brewer, D.

Chekhov's Great Plays: A Critical Anthology

By Jean-Pierre Barricelli

Village Christmas: And Other Notes on the English Year (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Lee, Laurie

Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart

By Martin, Robert Bernard

Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas

By Thomas, Caitlin

In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of a Lost War

By Wolff, Tobias

George Crabbe: An English Life

By Powell, Neil

Orwell: The Transformation (Paladin Book)

By Stansky, Peter, Abrahams, WILLIAM

Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters (Literary Biographies S.)

By Steegmuller, Francis

Ic3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain

By Newland, Courttia, Sesay, Kadija

I Wanna Be Yours: John Cooper Clarke

By Cooper Clarke, John

The White Album

By Didion, Joan

William Morris

By Parry, Linda

Outrageous Fortune: A True story of theatrical success, unfaithful love and legal disaster

By Frisby, Terence

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

By Steinbeck, John

Patch Work: WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE

By Wilcox, Claire

Country Girl

By O'Brien, Edna

Love Without End: A Story of Heloise and Abelard

By Bragg, Melvyn

The Passion of Emily Dickinson

By Farr, Judith

Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85

By Larkin, Philip, Thwaite, Anthony

Before Night Falls: A Memoir

By Arenas, Reinaldo, Koch, Dolores M.

Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation

By Stuart Kelly