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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

Unkind to Unicorns: Comic Verse of A.E. Housman

By A. E. Housman, J.Roy Birch, David Harris

Death: Vintage Minis

By julian barnes

The Philip Larkin I Knew

By Maeve Brennan

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

By Ann Thwaite

Dared and Done: Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning

By Julia Markus

The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903-1942

By Olivier Philipponnat, Patrick Lienhardt, Euan Cameron

Our Israeli Diary: Of That Time, Of That Place

By Antonia Fraser

Arthur Miller: His Life And Work

By Martin Gottfried

Against All Hope: Prison Memoirs

By Armando Valladares

The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History: Winner of the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019

By Edemariam, Aida

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

By Murakami, Haruki, Gabriel, Philip