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Pocket Maya Angelou Wisdom: Inspirational Quotes and Wise Words From a Legendary Icon

By Hardie Grant Books

Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann

By Harriet Baker

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

By Rebecca Solnit

Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography

By Jeffrey Meyers

Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World

By Jonathan Bate

Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son

By Chris Dickey

The Education of a Coach

By David Halberstam

The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family

By Mary S. Lovell

Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It

By Brett C. Millier

George Orwell

By Gordon Bowker

George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel: A Biography

By Roderick Beaton

Long Life: Essays and Other Writings

By Mary Oliver

Allegorizings

By Jan Morris

John Clare

By Jonathan Bate

John Donne: The Reformed Soul

By John Stubbs

Karl Marx

By Wheen, Francis

The Complete Plays

By Christopher Marlowe

Truth and Beauty: A Friendship

By Ann Patchett

The Life of Ezra Pound

By Noel Stock

Ice Diaries: An Antartic Memoir

By Jean McNeil

Amis & Son: Two Literary Generations

By Neil Powell

Jane Austen's Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England

By Maria Hubert

The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness: A Memoir of an Adolescence

By Graham Caveney

Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

By Sir Jonathan Bate

Spike: An Intimate Memoir

By Norma Farnes

Mermaid Singing

By Charmian Clift

To The One I Love The Best

By Ludwig Bemelmans

The American Sublime

By Mary Arensberg

Shakespeare: Life, Works, Treasures

By Catherine M. S. Alexander

42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams (No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller)

By Adams, Douglas, Davies, Kevin Jon