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The North China Lover

By Marguerite Duras

To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45

By Victor Klemperer

Edith Wharton and the French Riviera

By Elizabeth Collas

Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother

By Sturrock, Donald

My American Century

By Studs Terkel, Robert Coles

The Portable Emerson

By Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark van Doren

Life and Death in the Battle of Britain

By Carl Warner

The Time Of Our Time

By Mailer, Norman

In Thier Own Words: Untold Stories from the First World War

Reporting: Writings from the New Yorker

By David Remnick

Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond

By Janina Bauman

Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language

By Bryson, Bill

The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life

By Amy Tan

Pig Earth

By John Berger

Selected Letters: 1957-69

By Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters

The Works

By Geoffrey Chaucer, F. N. Robinson, F.N. Robinson

Rural Rides

By William Cobbett, Ian Dyck

Essays

By George Orwell, Bernard Crick

84 Charing Cross Road

By Helene Hanff, Juliet Stevenson

Boy in the Blitz: The 1940 Diary of Colin Perry

By Colin Perry

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'

By Richard Broad, Suzie Fleming, Nella Last

Granta 48: Africa (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

By Buford, Bill

Granta 47: Losers (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

By Buford, Bill

Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings

By John Fowles, Jan Relf

An Irish Navvy - The Diary of an Exile

By Donall MacAmhlaigh

Tim's Wars: The Psychology of War and Peace Through One Man's Eyes

By Timothy Goddard Elliott, Robin E. Gregory

Oscar Wilde O/P

By Michael Harris

The Voyage of Semen Dezhnev in 1648. Bering's precursor with selected documents

By Raymond H Fisher

The Prince

By Niccolo Machiavelli

Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays

By Adam Hochschild