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The Durrells of Corfu

By Michael Haag

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey

Going Solo

By Dahl, Roald, Blake, Quentin

Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working class Scotland

By Deborah Orr

William Shakespeare: A Life

By Garry O'Connor

Alphonse de Lamartine: A Political Biography

By William Fortesque

I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir

By Rafi Zabor

The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson's Guide to Life

By Henry Hitchings

Travels with Charley in Search of America

By John Steinbeck

Running in the Family

By Michael Ondaatje

Ezra Pound and His World

By Peter Ackroyd

Oscar Wilde

By Vyvyan Holland

What Was Shakespeare Really Like?

By Stanley Wells (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon), Stephen Fry

Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood

By Richard Wright, Geoffrey Summerfield

Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

By Thomas E. Ricks

The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

By Joan Schenkar

Wilfred Owen: A New Biography

By Dominic Hibberd

The Bloomsbury Group: A Collection of Memoirs and Commentary

By S.P. Rosenbaum

Scotland: The Story of a Nation

By Magnusson, Magnus

How To Be a Medieval Woman

By Margery Kempe, Barry Windeatt

Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents

By Paul Theroux

NOUVELLES DRAMATURGIES AFRICAINES

By CHALAYE, Makhélé, Caya, Sylvie

I Never Said Goodbye: A Mother's Memoir of Love and Brutal Loss Inside Saddam's Regime

By Pauline Knowles-Samarraie, Karen O'Brien

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

By Chinua Achebe

Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

By Kathleen Norris

Sol Plaatje: A life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876-1932

By Brian Willan

You Must Set Forth at Dawn: a Memoir

By Soyinka Wole

Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama: "Not Only a Playwright But a Company". The Trinidad Theatre Workshop 1959-1993

By Bruce King

Charles Dickens

By Simon Callow

The Letters of Harry Tartt: The Light and Bitter Years

By Harry Tartt