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24 books recommended for fans of Biography by Bill Buford, tied together by themes of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Essays, European, and Literary Collections.

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The Year of the Jouncer — Simon Gray

The Year of the Jouncer

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Waugh in Abyssinia — Evelyn Waugh

Waugh in Abyssinia

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, From The Year 1741 to 1770. To Which are Added, Letters From Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Vesey, Between The Years 1763 and 1787; Published From The Original Manuscripts in The — Montagu Pennington

A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, From The Year 1741 to 1770. To Which are Added, Letters From Mrs. Elizabeth Carter to Mrs. Vesey, Between The Years 1763 and 1787; Published From The Original Manuscripts in The

Montagu Pennington

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author — Edward John Trelawny

Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author

Edward John Trelawny

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Granta 44 — Bill Buford

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For — Henry Thoreau

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Memoirs Of Joseph, Sarah, And Rachel Moorcock With The Poetical Works Of Rachel Moorcock (1872) — Benjamin North

Memoirs Of Joseph, Sarah, And Rachel Moorcock With The Poetical Works Of Rachel Moorcock (1872)

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Selections From The Spectator With Introduction And Notes (1892) — Joseph Addison

Selections From The Spectator With Introduction And Notes (1892)

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

George Orwell: My country right or left, 1940-1943 — George Orwell

George Orwell: My country right or left, 1940-1943

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed — John Irving

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Feeding Frenzy — Will Self

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

The Diary of Samuel Pepys A Selection — Samuel Pepys

The Diary of Samuel Pepys A Selection

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Time Come Selected Prose — Linton Kwesi Johnson

Time Come Selected Prose

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Charles Dickens The Man, the Novels, the Victorian Age — Lucinda Hawksley

Charles Dickens The Man, the Novels, the Victorian Age

Lucinda Hawksley

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Remarks On Certain Anonymous Articles Designed To Render Queen Victoria Unpopular With An Exposure Of Their Authorship (1864) — John Bellows

Remarks On Certain Anonymous Articles Designed To Render Queen Victoria Unpopular With An Exposure Of Their Authorship (1864)

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Memoirs Of Robert Cary, Earl Of Monmouth (1905) — Robert Carey

Memoirs Of Robert Cary, Earl Of Monmouth (1905)

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

On Being Ill With Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen — Virginia Woolf

On Being Ill With Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

The Table Talk of John Selden — John Selden

The Table Talk of John Selden

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Stories For The Fireside Or Moral Improvement Illustrated (1839) — Miss Rignall

Stories For The Fireside Or Moral Improvement Illustrated (1839)

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Memoir Of The Life Of Lieutenant-Colonel Vassall With An Elegiac Ode (1819) — Spencer Thomas Vassall

Memoir Of The Life Of Lieutenant-Colonel Vassall With An Elegiac Ode (1819)

Spencer Thomas Vassall

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Box 18 The Unpublished Spike Milligan — Spike Milligan

Box 18 The Unpublished Spike Milligan

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Extreme Metaphors — J. G. Ballard

Extreme Metaphors

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Somewhere Becoming Rain Collected Writings on Philip Larkin — Clive James

Somewhere Becoming Rain Collected Writings on Philip Larkin

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Life At Grasmere — Dorothy Wordsworth

Life At Grasmere

Dorothy Wordsworth

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Biography by Bill Buford. Connected by English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Essays, European. Authors featured include Simon Gray, Evelyn Waugh, Montagu Pennington, Edward John Trelawny, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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