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    Rural Hours (Paperback)

    Harriet Baker
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    A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024'A fascinating look at the impact of country home-making on the lives and work of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warn...

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  • Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka

    Karolina Watroba
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  • We Two From Heaven: A Memoir (Paperback)

    James Whyle
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    We Two from Heaven is a singular memoir, a four-part fugue on the tricks and traps of memory, a shuffling of the cards of time. Episodes from the e...

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  • The Life And Lies Of Charles Dickens

    Helena Kelly
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  • The Imperfect Life Of T. S. Eliot (Paperback)

    Lyndall Gordon
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    T. S. Eliot once spoke of a lifetime burning in every moment. He had the mind to conceive a perfect life, and he also had the honesty to admit he c...

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  • Ian Fleming

    Vintage Publishing
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    A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming fam...

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  • Getting Away With Murder (Paperback)

    Lynda La Plante
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    Lynda La Plante has lived an illustrious life and has the stories to prove it.From her early days in Liverpool to her unexpected acceptance into RA...

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  • Virginia Woolf And Vanessa Bell: A Very Close Conspiracy

    Jane Dunn
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  • The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

    Penguin Books Ltd
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF SPY-WRITING LEGEND JOHN LE CARRE 'As recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial Tim...

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  • Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

    Icon Books
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    'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline C...

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  • The Secret Lives Of Booksellers & Librarians - True Stories Of The Magic Of Reading (Paperback)

    James Patterson, Matt Eversmann
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    No. 1 bestselling author James Patterson shares true stories from booksellers and librarians in this love letter to the heroes of literacy, who ope...

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  • Memoirs of My Former Self

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  • Hermit: A Memoir of Finding Freedom

    Wordsworth Books
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  • The Little Book of Mark Twain: Wit and wisdom from the great American writer

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    Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, is one of the most famous writers in American (and world) literature. Twain h...

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  • Writers Who Changed History

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    This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.Writers Who Chang...

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  • Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance

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    This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of...

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  • Orwell

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  • The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Their Friends

    Wordsworth Books
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    Critically acclaimed, award-winning biography of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and the brilliant group of writers to come out of Oxford during the Second W...

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  • The Bronte Sisters: Life, Loss and Literature

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    Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall...these fictional masterpieces are all recognised as landmarks of English Literature. Sti...

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  • Just Sayin': My Life In Words

    Cornerstone
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    The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering and inspiring account of a life in books.Malori...

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  • Orwell

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  • Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman (Trade Paperback)

    Lucy Worsley
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    'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse' - THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'A riveting portrait' - GUARDIAN BOOKS OF T...

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  • Shakespeare: The World as a Stage

    Bill Bryson
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    Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet...

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    A Rose For Winter

    Laurie Lee
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    Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of ...

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