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He Delivered a Pair of Old Shoes to James Joyce
The Letters of T S Eliot: Volume I 1898-1922
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Eliot’s New Life
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Humphrey Carpenter
The Elusive Charles Dickens
Dickens: Interviews and Recollections
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Ruth Dudley Edwards
Complete Writer
Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler
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Simon Blow
Pleasure & Desolation
Letters from Colette
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Kathryn Hughes
Hasty Scrawls
Harriet Martineau, Selected Letters
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Hilary Mantel
The Last Post
Last Letters: Prisons and Prisoners of the French Revolution
By Olivier Blanc
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Ray Ockenden
Rilke the Romantic
A Ringing Glass: The Life of Rainer Maria Rilke
By Donald Prater
Letters, Summer 1926: Pasternak, Tsvetayeva, Rilke
By Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak & Konstantin Azadorsky (eds)
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Piers Paul Read
Lunch Thursday
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
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Derek Mahon
Womanly Times
Between Moon and Moon: Selected Letters of Robert Graves 1946–1972
By Paul O'Prey (ed)
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Victoria Glendinning
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Matthew Parker
From Ian with Love
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By Fergus Fleming (ed)
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T J Binyon
Poetry of Love
Love is the Heart of Everything: Correspondence Between Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik
By Bengt Jangfeldt (ed) (Translated by Julian Graffy)
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Jonathan Keates
Suburban Decadence
More Letters of Oscar Wilde
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Naomi Wood
Falling for Pfife
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By A E Hotchner
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 3 – 1926–1929
By Rena Sanderson, Sandra Spanier & Robert W Trogdon (edd)
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John Bayley
The Florence Nightingale of Fiction
Selections from George Eliot's Letters
By Gordon S Haight
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John Gray
Notes on Liberty
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Sebastian Shakespeare
The Man Who Talked to Letter Boxes
The Lesson of the Master: On Borges And His Work
By Norman Thomas di Giovanni
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Jessica Mann
Life After Crime
The Letters of Dorothy L Sayers
By P D James (preface), Barbara Reynolds (ed)
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Patrick O'Connor
The Contrary Contralto
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Michael Burleigh
Dispatches from Air Force One
Reagan: A Life In Letters
By Ronald Reagan, Kiron K Skinner, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson (edd), George P Shultz (foreword)
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