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Return to Paris: A Memoir with Recipes

By Rossant, Colette

Star Factory

By Ciaran Carson

Words and Worlds: From Autobiography to Zippers

By ALISON LURIE

The Bronte Myth

By Lucasta Miller

The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street

By Charles Nicholl

Shakespeare: A Life

By Park Honan (Emeritus Professor, School of English, Emeritus Professor, University of Leeds)

Rupert Brooke: His Life and His Legend

By John Lehmann

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

By Simone de Beauvoir, James Kirkup

Tennyson

By Peter Levi

Letters: v.2: 1952-84

By John Betjeman, Candida Lycett Green, Candida Lycett-Green

Last Words

By William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz

Where Did it All Go Right?

By Al Alvarez

The Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh: Story of A.A.Milne and His Writing for Children

By Ann Thwaite

Harriet Tubman

By Sarah Bradford, CTA, Harriet Tubman, H Tubman, Butler A Jones

Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words

By Kim Rosen

The Angel of Charleston: Grace Higgens, Housekeeper to the Bloomsbury Set, 1920-1970

By Stewart MacKay

Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet

By Elaine Feinstein

A Preface to Wilfred Owen (Preface Books)

By Purkis, Mr John

An Introduction to Pope

By Pat Rogers

The Life and Times of Chaucer

By John Gardner

Wilfred Owen: A Biography

By Jon Stallworthy

A Strong Dose of Myself

By Dannie Abse

Preface to Spenser

By Helena Mennie Shire

My Father's Fortune: A Life

By Frayn, Michael

BERTIE, MAY AND MRS FISH: Country Memories of Wartime

By Bingley, Xandra

Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry

By Akiane Kramarik

Baudelaire

By Claude Pichois

A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story

By Polly Morland, Richard Baker

Time to be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography

By P. D. James

Joseph Conrad: A Life

By Zdzislaw Najder