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Fantastic Mr Dahl

By Michael Rosen, Quentin Blake

Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen

By Wilcox, Helen, Graham, Elspeth, Hobby, Elaine, Hind, Hilary

Life on the Mississippi

By Mark Twain

Humphry Davy: Life Beyond the Lamp: Poet and Philosopher

By Raymond Lamont-Brown

Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

By Lucy Malleson

My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism

By Marr, Andrew

The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selections from His Poems, Letters, Journals, and Spiritual Writings

By Gerard Manley Hopkins, Margaret R. Ellsberg, Dana Gioia

The Diary of Anais Nin 1955-1966

By Anaïs Nin

The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women

By Mo Moulton, West Kent Federation of Women's Institutes

Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse

By Andrea di Robilant (Author)

Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and a Daughter

By Lyndall Gordon

The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession

By Edmund de Waal

Sweet Songs of Zion

By Stephen Games, John Betjeman

Brief Lives

By William Francis Deedes, Chris Bonington

Nothing Sacred Selected Writings by Carter, Angela ( Author ) ON Dec-31-1982, Paperback

By Carter, Angela

Down and Out in Paris and London (Collins Classics)

By George Orwell

Sense and Sensibility (Collins Classics)

By Austen, Jane

Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead

By Paula Byrne

DONT LETS GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT : AFRICAN CHILDHOOD

By Alexandra Fuller

Pam Ayres: The Works. Selected Poems

By Pam Ayres

Timebends: A Life

By Arthur Miller

Hons and Rebels: The Mitford Family Memoir

By Jessica Mitford

A Better Class of Person: An Autobiography, 1929-56

By John Osborne

Sort of Life

By Graham Greene

Yesterday Morning: a Very English Childhood

By Diana Athill

Motherwell: A Girlhood

By Deborah Orr

Shelley: The Pursuit

By Richard Holmes

A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates

By Blake Bailey

The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

By Suleika Dawson

Goodbye to All That

By Robert Graves, Richard Perceval Graves