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Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

By HILARY SPURLING

Furious Interiors: R.S.Thomas, God and Wales

By Justin Wintle

Brian Friel: Essays, Diaries, Interviews: 1964-1999: Essays and Interviews

By Professor Christopher Murray

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

By Agnes Poirier

William Blake vs the World

By John Higgs

Anna of all the Russias: The Life of a Poet under Stalin

By Elaine Feinstein

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho (Penguin Classics)

By Sappho, Duffy, Carol Ann, Poochigian, Aaron

Maximes

By La Rocherfoucauld, Francois De La Rochefoucauld

In My Own Time: Thoughts and Afterthoughts

By Jane Miller

Nevada Days

By Bernardo Atxaga, Margaret Jull Costa

A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist

By Chris Paling

Restoration Heart: A Memoir

By William Cash

Against The Law

By Peter Wildeblood

Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 2: 1939-1953

By Dylan Thomas

The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas

By Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 1: 1931-1939

By Dylan Thomas

If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz

By Primo Levi, David Baddiel, Stuart Woolf

Prose: The Centenary Edition

By ELIZABETH BISHOP

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way: Discover the 1960s trend for buying land on a Greek island and building a house. How hard could it be...?

By Nancy Spain

Manifesto: A radically honest and inspirational memoir from the Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

By Bernardine Evaristo

Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

By Sarah Knights

Jane Austen

By Carol Shields

Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

By John Walsh

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited

By Philip Eade

Travelling with Ghosts: An intimate and inspiring journey

By Shannon Leone Fowler

Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter

By Lady Antonia Fraser

Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet

By Elaine Feinstein

Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

By Richard Cohen

A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

By Joanna Biggs

Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

By Lyndall Gordon