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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

By Thomas E. Ricks

The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

By Joan Schenkar

Wilfred Owen: A New Biography

By Dominic Hibberd

The Bloomsbury Group: A Collection of Memoirs and Commentary

By S.P. Rosenbaum

Scotland: The Story of a Nation

By Magnusson, Magnus

How To Be a Medieval Woman

By Margery Kempe, Barry Windeatt

Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents

By Paul Theroux

NOUVELLES DRAMATURGIES AFRICAINES

By CHALAYE, Makhélé, Caya, Sylvie

I Never Said Goodbye: A Mother's Memoir of Love and Brutal Loss Inside Saddam's Regime

By Pauline Knowles-Samarraie, Karen O'Brien

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

By Chinua Achebe

Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

By Kathleen Norris

Sol Plaatje: A life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876-1932

By Brian Willan

You Must Set Forth at Dawn: a Memoir

By Soyinka Wole

Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama: "Not Only a Playwright But a Company". The Trinidad Theatre Workshop 1959-1993

By Bruce King

Charles Dickens

By Simon Callow

The Letters of Harry Tartt: The Light and Bitter Years

By Harry Tartt

A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

By Joanna Biggs

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics)

By Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland

The Wallace

By Blind Harry

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: The internationally bestselling classic

By Dr Maya Angelou

Down and Out in Paris and London (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Orwell, George

If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

By Tim O'Brien

The Red Sweet Wine Of Youth: The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets

By Nicholas Murray

Tolstoy

By A. N. Wilson

T.S.Eliot

By Peter Ackroyd

A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

By Ernest Hemingway

The Longing for Home

By Frederick Buechner

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings

By Plath, Sylvia, Sylvia Plath

It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

By James Herriot

A Moment of War

By Lee, Laurie