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A House in Flanders

By Sir Michael Jenkins

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan

By Arthur Waley, Dennis Washburn

Poets In A Landscape

By Gilbert Highet

Time to Stand and Stare: A Life of W.H. Davies with Selected Poems

By Barbara Hardy

Iris Murdoch: A Life: The Authorized Biography

By Peter J. Conradi

The Bees

By Carol Ann Duffy, DBE

The Heart's Granary: Poetry and Prose from 50 Years of Enitharmon Press

By Lawrence Sail

Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia

By Tracey Thorn

The Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory

By Deborah Alun-Jones

Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives

By John Sutherland

Burning the Days

By James Salter

BoyhoodA Memoir

By Coetzee, J. M.

Basil Street Blues and Mosaic

By Michael Holroyd

Grub Street Irregular

By Jeremy Lewis

A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton

By Kate Colquhoun

The Genius of Shakespeare

By Jonathan Bate

Ceaseless Turmoil: Diaries 1988-1992

By Lees-Milne, James

Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

By Thomas E. Ricks

Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950

By Agnes Poirier

Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett

By Alan Bennett

No Boys Play Here: A Story of Shakespeare and My Family's Missing Men

By Sally Bayley

Every Third Thought: On life, death and the endgame

By Robert McCrum

Lytton Strachey: The New Biography

By Michael Holroyd

The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestsellers

By Teresa Ransom

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

Michael Foot - A Life

By Kenneth O. Morgan

Eden Renewed: Public and Private Life of John Milton

By Peter Levi

Leonard Woolf: A Biography

By Victoria Glendinning

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym

By Paula Byrne

A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits

By Laura Cumming