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The Richer, The Poorer: Stories, Sketches and Reminiscences

By Dorothy West, Diana Evans

Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Wainwright: The Biography

By Davies, Hunter

Munkey Diaries: The extraordinary early years of an international icon

By Jane Birkin

Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection

By Various

Dorothea's War: A First World War Nurse Tells Her Story

By Dorothea Crewdson, Richard Crewdson

My Unapologetic Diaries

By Joan Collins

The Noel Coward Diaries: With a Foreword by Stephen Fry

By Sheridan Morley, Graham Payn

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

By Lord John Julius Norwich

Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation

By Prof Umberto Eco

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

By Glory Edim

The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History

By Rachel Smith, Barbara Vesey, Mark Gatiss

Notes from the Henhouse: From the author of O CALEDONIA, a delightful springtime read full of pigs, ponds and fresh air

By Elspeth Barker

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens

By Alice Walker

Alice Walker: Living by the Word

By Alice Walker

Letters to the Midwife: Correspondence with Jennifer Worth, the Author of Call the Midwife

By Jennifer Worth

Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 1: 1931-1939

By Dylan Thomas

Black Holes and Baby Universes: And Other Essays

By Stephen Hawking

Enemies of Promise

By Cyril Connolly

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

By Gaiman, Neil

Dr Maung Maung: Gentleman, Scholar, Patriot

By Dr. Maung Maung, Robert H. Taylor

The Virago Book of Women Travellers

By Mary Morris, Larry O'Connor

The Meaning of Recognition: New Essays 2001-2005

By Clive James

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

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

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

By Kipling, Rudyard

Journal

By Helene Berr

Six Facets Of Light

By Ann Wroe

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2

By Jean Sasson

Making History: Writings on History and Culture

By E. P. Thompson