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In Silent Moments

By Thomas F. Walsh

Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life

By Rose Tremain

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022

By Katherine Rundell

The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

By Sofia Tolstoy, Cathy Porter

Oscar Wilde

By Richard Ellmann

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

By Laurie Lee

China Diary

By Stephen Spender, David Hockney

Selected Poems

By W.H. Auden

As Much as I Dare: An Autobiography

By Arnold Wesker

Indirections

By Charles Brasch

A Better Class of Person: An Autobiography, 1929-56

By John Osborne

Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left

By John Newsinger

John Betjeman: The Biography

By Bevis Hillier

My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism

By Marr, Andrew

Edith Wharton (Writers and their Work)

By Janet Beer

Judith Kerr's Creatures: A Celebration of her Life and Work

By Judith Kerr

Making Books with Nick Butterworth: A non-fiction book by Nick Butterworth about his highly popular books and characters.: Band 05/Green (Collins Big Cat)

By Butterworth, Nick, Butterworth, Nick, Collins Big Cat, Moon, Cliff

Maybe The People Would Be The Times

By Lucy Sante

Me. You. Not a Diary: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller

By Dawn French

The Diary of Anais Nin 1934-1939

By Anaïs Nin

Somewhere Towards The End

By Diana Athill (Y)

Print of a Hare's Foot

By Rhys Davies

Chapters of Accidents: A Writer's Memoir

By alexander Baron, Colin Holmes, Nick Baron

Paris to the Moon: A Family in France

By Adam Gopnik

The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath

By Ronald Hayman

Christina Rossetti

By Kathryn Burlinson

Sylvia Plath

By Elisabeth Bronfen

The Grasmere Journals

By Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof

Wilfred Owen

By Dominic Hibbard

Christina Rossetti

By Frances Thomas