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An Uncommon Reader A Life of Edward Garnett, Mentor and Editor of Literary Genius — Helen Smith

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Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Boswell’s Presumptuous Task — Adam Sisman

Boswell’s Presumptuous Task

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Lytton Strachey A Biography — Michael Holroyd

Lytton Strachey A Biography

Michael Holroyd

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From Holmes to Sherlock The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon

Mattias Boström

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Joyce in Court — Adrian Hardiman

Adrian Hardiman

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The Life of Graham Greene: 1904-1939 — Norman Sherry

The Life of Graham Greene: 1904-1939

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Year of the Jouncer — Simon Gray

The Year of the Jouncer

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox — Evelyn Waugh

The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Virginia Woolf — James King

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The Uncommon Reader A Life of Edward Garnett — Helen Smith

The Uncommon Reader A Life of Edward Garnett

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Priestley at Kissing Tree House — Rosalie Batten

Priestley at Kissing Tree House

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Dickens’s Women His Great Expectations — Anne Isba

Dickens’s Women His Great Expectations

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

This Place Speaks to Me An Anthology of People and Places — John Quinn

This Place Speaks to Me An Anthology of People and Places

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Straight Acting The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare — Will Tosh

Straight Acting The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

In Their Own Words The Testimonies of Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox and John Bunyan — David B. Calhoun

In Their Own Words The Testimonies of Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox and John Bunyan

David B. Calhoun

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Some Reminiscences — William Michael Rossetti

Some Reminiscences

William Michael Rossetti

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Coward, the Playwright — John Lahr

Coward, the Playwright

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Charlotte — D. M. Thomas

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Eating Children — Jill Tweedie

Eating Children

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context) — Lyn Pykett

Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

The Dracula Secrets Jack the Ripper and the Darkest Sources of Bram Stoker — Neil R. Storey

The Dracula Secrets Jack the Ripper and the Darkest Sources of Bram Stoker

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Edith Sitwell Avant-garde Poet, English Genius — Richard Greene

Edith Sitwell Avant-garde Poet, English Genius

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

Matthew Prior A Study of His Public Career and Correspondence — Legg

Matthew Prior A Study of His Public Career and Correspondence

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

An Irish Childhood — Alexander Norman Jeffares

An Irish Childhood

Alexander Norman Jeffares

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Literary Criticism

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