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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

Mother Ireland

By Edna O'Brien

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Geoffrey Hartman Reader

By Geoffrey H. Hartman, Daniel T. O'Hara