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

By John Osborne

Sort of Life

By Graham Greene

Yesterday Morning: a Very English Childhood

By Diana Athill

Motherwell: A Girlhood

By Deborah Orr

Shelley: The Pursuit

By Richard Holmes

A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates

By Blake Bailey

The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

By Suleika Dawson

Goodbye to All That

By Robert Graves, Richard Perceval Graves

String Theory: David Foster Wallace On Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication

By David Foster Wallace

The Life of Graham Greene: 1904-39 v. 1

By Sherry, Norman

Lewis Carroll

By Derek Hudson

The Soul of Indiscretion: Tom Driberg, poet, philanderer, legislator and outlaw – His Life and Indiscretions

By Wheen, Francis

Around the World in Eighty Days (Collins Classics)

By Verne, Jules

Shakespeare: The Biography

By Peter Ackroyd

Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism

By D. Leeming

Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room

By Jonathan Bate

Student Guide to Robert Frost

By Warren Hope

Death of a Lady's Man: A Collection of Poetry and Prose

By Leonard Cohen

Unframed Originals: Recollections

By W. S. Merwin

Churchill at War

By Sir Martin Gilbert

American Gangster: And Other Tales of New York

By Jacobson, Mark

King Solomon's Empire: The Rise, Fall, and Modern-Day Influence of an Iron-Age Ruler

By Archie W N Roy, Margaret P Roy

Bernard Shaw: v. 3: Lure of Fantasy, 1918-50

By Michael Holroyd

Bosie: Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas

By Douglas Murray

How to Live to be 22

By Keith Waterhouse

Prick up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton

By John Lahr

The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962

By Sylvia Plath, Karen V. Kukil

W.H.Auden: The Life of a Poet

By Charles Osborne

Betjeman's Lincolnshire: 2006

By Michael Richardson

And Still I Rise

By Dr Maya Angelou