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Illuminations

By Benjamin, Walter

Mirth of a Nation: 15 Years of Humour in the "Mail" & "Guardian"

By de Waal, Shaun, Ludman, Barbara

The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

By Vincent van Gogh, Ronald de Leeuw, Arnold Pomerans

Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life

By Spaethling, Professor Robert

Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions

By Martin Amis

Scarman and After: Essays Reflecting on Lord Scarman's Report, the Riots and Their Aftermath

By John Benyon

Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

By Andrew Boyd

The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for and about Groucho Marx

By Stefan Kanfer

Crediting Poetry

By SEAMUS HEANEY

The Sea Inside

By Hoare, Philip

High Tide in Tucson: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

By Barbara Kingsolver

The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose: From William Caxton to P.G.Wodehouse - A Conducted Tour

By Frank Muir

Unsuitable for Ladies An Anthology of Women Travellers

By Robinson, Jane

War Talk

By Roy, Arundhati

The Secret Diary of a New Mum (aged 43 1/4)

By Rosen, Cari

The Periodic Table

By Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal (Translator)

What's Really Going On Here?: Making Sense of our Emotional Lives

By Orbach, Susie

Mr Brown's War: A Diary of the Second World War

By Helen D. Millgate

The Man Who Died (Paper)

By DH Lawrence

Shakespeare's Montaigne

By Michel de Montaigne

Journal

By Helene Berr

Six Facets Of Light

By Ann Wroe

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2

By Jean Sasson

Life's Handicap: Being Stories Of Mine Own People (Rudyard Kipling centenary editions)

By Kipling, Rudyard

With Passport and Parasol

By Julia Keay

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

By Annie Dillard

Black Holes and Baby Universes: And Other Essays

By Stephen Hawking

The Anglo-Dutch Moment: Essays on the Glorious Revolution and its World Impact

By Jonathan I. Israel (Princeton University, New Jersey)

The Meaning of Recognition: New Essays 2001-2005

By Clive James

The Virago Book of Women Travellers

By Mary Morris, Larry O'Connor