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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

Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976

By Hunter S. Thompson

Went to London, Took the Dog: The Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway

By Nina Stibbe

Thomas Hardy: A Biography

By Martin Seymour-Smith

The Brontes

By Barker, Juliet R.V., Juliet Barker

Dennis Potter: The Authorised Biography

By Humphrey Carpenter

Outlaw Journalist the Life of Hunter S.Thompson

By William McKeen

Paradiso - Paradise v. 3: The Divine Comedy (Penguin Classics)

By Dante, Kirkpatrick, Robin

Gerard Manley Hopkins

By Bernard martin

The Shakespeare Companion

By Rhiannon Guy

The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John Bingham

By Michael Jago

Antonin Artaud: Man of Vision

By Bettina L. Knapp