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Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life

By Paddy Kitchen

Tennyson: The Man and His Work

By Michael Thorn

John Clare

By John Clare, Mark Storey

History in the Making

By J. H. Elliott

Letter to My Mother

By Georges Simenon

The Survivor

By Primo Levi

Boy: Tales of Childhood

By Roald Dahl

Boy: Tales of Childhood

By Roald Dahl

Seminary Boy

By Cornwell, John

A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson

By Peter J. Conradi

J. G. Frazer: His Life and Work

By Robert Ackerman (University of the Arts, Philadelphia)

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

Ryszard Kapuscinski: A Life

By Artur Domoslawski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Mozambique Mysteries

By Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

Isaac Rosenberg: The Making Of A Great War Poet

By Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Chagrin d'ecole (Folio)

By Pennac, Daniel

Billy

By Stephenson, Pamela

A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

By Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway, Sean Hemingway

Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself

By Ann Wroe

The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination

By Richard Mabey

Dog Years: A Memoir

By Mark Doty

Backing into the Limelight: The Biography of Alan Bennett

By Alexander Games

Screaming with Joy: The Life of Allen Ginsberg

By Graham Caveney

Georges Simenon

By David Carter

The Girl From Aleppo: Nujeen’s Escape From War to Freedom

By Mustafa, Nujeen, Lamb, Christina

The Measure of My Powers: A Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris

By Jackie Kay Ellis

An Autobiography: 25th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

By Agatha Christie

An Autobiography: 25th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

By Agatha Christie

Blackout: Remembering the things I drank to forget

By Hepola, Sarah

John Le Carre: The Biography

By Adam Sisman