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The Islander: Complete and Unabridged

By Garry Bannister, David Sowby, Tomas O'Crohan

Staging Modern American Life: Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos

By T. Fahy

An Actor's Craft: The Art and Technique of Acting

By David Krasner

Jeanette Winterson

By Sonya Andermahr

Nature Cure

By Richard Mabey

George Eliot in Love

By Brenda Maddox

The Joke's Over

By Ralph Steadman

In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War

By Tobias Wolff

A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East

By Terzani, Tiziano, Tiziano Terzani

The Paris Review Interviews

By Philip Gourevitch

The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureate and Burma's Prisoner

By Barbara Victor

The Life of Johnson

By James Boswell, R. W. Chapman, Pat Rogers

Wandering Through Life: A Memoir

By Donna Leon

An American Childhood

By Annie Dillard

King of Rome

By Dave Sudbury, Hans Saefkow

Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life

By Paddy Kitchen

Tennyson: The Man and His Work

By Michael Thorn

John Clare

By John Clare, Mark Storey

History in the Making

By J. H. Elliott

Letter to My Mother

By Georges Simenon

The Survivor

By Primo Levi

Boy: Tales of Childhood

By Roald Dahl

Boy: Tales of Childhood

By Roald Dahl

Seminary Boy

By Cornwell, John

A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson

By Peter J. Conradi

J. G. Frazer: His Life and Work

By Robert Ackerman (University of the Arts, Philadelphia)

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

Ryszard Kapuscinski: A Life

By Artur Domoslawski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Mozambique Mysteries

By Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

Isaac Rosenberg: The Making Of A Great War Poet

By Jean Moorcroft Wilson