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Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman

BYRON SHELLEY & THEIR CIRCLE

Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard

Molly Keane: A Life

A Brief Guide to William Shakespeare

The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World

Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936

The Nemirovsky Question: The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in Twentieth-Century France

The Double Bond: Primo Levi - A Biography

These Bodies of Water: A Personal History of the British Empire in the Middle East

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

One Pair of Feet: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens ... she's blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe

Edith Wharton and the French Riviera

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

Kafka

Life Is a Joke: A Writer's Memoir

The Village Book

Ex Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer

The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

Land of Evening

Train to Budapest

Swedish Reflections: From Beowulf to Bergman

The Phoenix Land

The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing

The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon

Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author

Snakes and Ladders

Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (the Country Nurse Series, Book One)

Afloat: A Memoir
