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HG Wells

By Vincent Brome

The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street

By Charles Nicholl

H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life

By Michael Sherborne

Dreaming To Some Purpose

By Colin Wilson

All Will Be Well: A Memoir

By john mcgahern

South to a Very Old Place

By Albert Murray

The World of Louisa May Alcott

By William Anderson

Dry

By Augusten Burroughs

Wildflower: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Murder of Joan Root

By Mark Seal

Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing

By Jane Dunn

Great Boys: An African Childhood

By Tanure Ojaide

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