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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

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