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Hockney's Alphabet

By Stephen Spender, David Hockney

The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

By Sofia Tolstoy, Cathy Porter

Ned Sherrin's Theatrical Anecdotes: A Connoisseur's Collection of Legends, Stories and Gossips

By Sherrin, Ned

War! Hellish War! Star Shell Reflections 1916 - 1918

By Barbara McClune, Jim Maultsaid

Literature and Tourism: Essays in the Reading and Writing of Tourism

By Mike Robinson (Sheffield Hallam University), Hans-Christian Andersen (University of Northumbria, Newcastle)

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

By Gertrude Stein

A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven

By Jeffrey Archer

Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power: 'riotously candid' Sunday Times

By Swire, Sasha

Buttoned-Up: The East London Line

By Gert Jonkers, Jop van Bennekom

The Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930's

By Samuel Hynes

Adventures in the Orgasmatron: The Invention of Sex

By Christopher Turner

The Road to Wigan Pier

By George Orwell

Promises, Promises: Essays on Literature and Psychoanalysis

By Phillips, Adam

An Image of Africa: Chinua Achebe (Penguin Great Ideas)

By Achebe, Chinua

31 Songs

By Nick Hornby

The People Speak: Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport

By Anthony Arnove, Colin Firth, David Horspool

Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz

By Hobsbawm, Prof Eric

Letters To My Grandchildren

By Tony Benn

All Points North

By Armitage, Simon

TEXF: Le Ble En Herbe (Textes Francais classiques et modernes series)

By Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle

Maybe The People Would Be The Times

By Lucy Sante

Night Fever: Club Writing in the "Face", 1980-96

By Richard Benson

Works

By Sappho, Mary Barnard, M. Barnard

Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

By Alan Rickman, Alan Taylor, Emma Thompson

Mythologies (Vintage classics)

By Barthes, Roland, Lavers, Dr Annette

Questioning The Millennium

By Gould, Stephen Jay

Some Thoughts on the Common Toad

By George Orwell

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo

By George Saunders

Hermit in Paris (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Calvino, Italo, McLaughlin, Martin

Personal Writings

By Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien