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

By Michelle Dean

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

By Monica Dickens, Marina Lewycka

The Consolation of Maps

By Thomas Bourke

Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories (riverrun editions): a new selection of the sharp, sensitive and much-revered stories

By Guy de Maupassant, Elsie Martindale, Ada Galsworthy, Robert Hampson, Helen Chambers

Victor Hugo

By Graham Robb

The Nightmare of Reason: Life of Franz Kafka

By Ernst Pawel

Kafka

By Pietro Citati

The Village Book

By Nicolas Freeling

Proust

By edmund white

On Ugliness

By Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen

My American Century

By Studs Terkel, Robert Coles

Monument Maker

By David Keenan

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

By Simon Fenwick

Cicero and Rome (Inside the ancient world)

By Taylor, David, Taylor, David

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy

By Park Honan (Emeritus Professor, School of English, University of Leeds)

Dickens: A Biography

By Fred Kaplan

Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth

By Nigel Jones

Wordsworth: A Life

By Juliet Barker

George Eliot: The Last Victorian

By Hughes, Kathryn

Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman

By Neville-Sington, Pamela

Bernard Shaw: v. 2: Pursuit of Power, 1898-1918

By Michael Holroyd

Oscar Wilde

By Ellmann, Professor Richard

Tristessa

By Jack Kerouac, Aram Saroyan

Starting Shakespeare (NEW LONGMAN LITERATURE 11-14)

By Marsh, Linda, Marland, Michael

Selected Letters: 1957-69

By Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters

Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats - A Portrait

By Barry Miles

Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg

By Carolyn Cassady

Anais: Erotic Life of Anais Nin

By Noel Riley Fitch

Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind - Arthur Koestler and the Quest for Belonging

By David Cesarani

The World of Christopher Marlowe

By Professor David Riggs