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Heinrich Heine: A Modern Biography

By Sammons, Jeffrey L.

Kafka's Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant

By Kathi Diamant

The World of Christopher Marlowe

By Professor David Riggs

Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books

By Cathy Rentzenbrink

84 Charing Cross Road

By Helene Hanff, Juliet Stevenson

Memoirs Of An Anti-Semite

By Gregor Von Rezzori

Between Them: Remembering My Parents

By Richard Ford

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

By Simon Winchester

Just Kids

By Smith, Patti

Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Bront

By Maureen Adams

Will

By Will Self

Priest They Called Him: Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs

By Graham Caveney

One Day I Will Write About This Place

By Binyavanga Wainaina

Charles Dickens

By Andrew Billen

My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson

By Alfred Habegger

Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings

By John Fowles, Jan Relf

J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography

By Humphrey Carpenter

Dylan Thomas in America

By John Malcolm Brinnin

Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years - A Memoir, 1945-67

By Wole Soyinda

Silver Poets of the 16th Century

By Douglas Brooks-Davies

Charles Dickens at Home

By Hilary Macaskill, Graham Salter, Florian Schweizer

Wilfred Owen: An Illustrated Life

By Jane Potter, Jon Stallworthy

Jacko Jacobus

By Kwame Dawes

Confessions of an English Opium Eater

By Thomas De Quincey, Barry Milligan

Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography

By Derek Pearsall

Mungo Park: Surgeon and West African Explorer

By Mark Duffill

Walden

By Henry David Thoreau

A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846: 'Sizzles and steams . . . Beautifully written.' (The Times)

By Francesca Wade, Alethea Hayter

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

By Winchester, Simon

Macbeth: The True Story

By Fiona Watson