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Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, Rabbit Remembered

By Updike, John

My Just Desire: The Life of Bess Raleigh, Wife to Sir Walter

By Beer, Anna R.

Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways

By Hemingway, Valerie

Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

By Miles, Sara

The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood

By Montgomery, Sy

Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing

By Thorn, Tracey

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

By Dean, Michelle

Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus: the long-awaited memoir from the star of QI and The Great British Bake Off

By Sandi Toksvig

The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington

By Moorhead, Joanna

Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between

By Graham, Lauren

Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between

By Graham, Lauren

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy

By Purnell, Sonia

The Glass Castle

By Jeannette Walls

How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of Politics

By Duca, Lauren

The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story

By Cowan, Justine

If This Is a Man / The Truce

By Levi, Primo, Woolf, Stuart, Primo Levi

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

By Slovo, Gillian

Iris: A memoir of Iris Murdoch

By Bayley, John, John Bayley

Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army

By Hattersley, Roy

Iris and the Friends: A Year of Memories

By Bayley, John

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How one Jewish woman survived the holocaust

By Hahn Beer, Edith, Dworkin, Susan

Iris: A memoir of Iris Murdoch

By Bayley, John

Still Waters

By Lauck, Jennifer

Bess Of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth

By Mary S. Lovell

The Edwardians: Biography of the Edwardian Age

By Hattersley, Roy

Salvation: Scenes from the Life of St Francis

By Martin, Valerie

Theft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One

By Sedaris, David

Playing Cards In Cairo: Mint Tea, Tarneeb and Tales of the City (The Hungry Student)

By Miles, Hugh

Straight On Till Morning: The Life Of Beryl Markham

By Mary S. Lovell

Rabbit Stew and a Penny or Two

By Smith-Bendell, Maggie