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Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood

By Hollie McNish

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By Salman Rushdie

Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Notes on Heartbreak: From Vogue's Dating Columnist, the must-read book on losing love and letting go

By Annie Lord

The Du Mauriers

By Daphne Du Maurier, Michael Holroyd

Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life

By Laura Thompson

When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back

By Naja Marie Aidt, Denise Newman

The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London

By Lisa Hilton

Slug: The Sunday Times Bestseller

By Hollie McNish

Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Poems from Malika's Poetry Kitchen

By Malika's Poetry Kitchen, Maisie Lawrence, Rishi Dastidar

Girl, Interrupted: TikTok made me buy it!

By Susanna Kaysen

In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers

By William Palmer

The Wit In The Dungeon: The Life of Leigh Hunt

By Anthony Holden

The Best of Me

By David Sedaris

Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings

By Howard Jacobson

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By Oscar Wilde

Byron In Love

By Edna O'Brien

My Father's Places

By Aeronwy Thomas

Not The Whole Story: A Memoir

By Angela Huth

The Strings are False: An Unfinished Autobiography

By Louis MacNeice

Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth

By Polly Atkin

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History

By Sir Richard J. Evans

Blue Horses

By Mary Oliver

A Thousand Mornings

By Mary Oliver

Negative Capability: A Diary of Surviving

By Michele Roberts

Going Solo

By Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People

By Amara Thornton

Becoming Muhammad Ali

By James Patterson, Kwame Alexander, Dawud Anyabwile

William Wordsworth Anthology

By William Wordsworth