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Authors: Colm Tóibín,Carmen Callil
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
1977
City Without Walls
1969
Complete Poems, 1927–1979
1986
A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems
1993
My Sad Captains
1961
Field Work
1979
Millions of Strange Shadows
1977
King Log
1968
The Hawk in the Rain
1957
The Whitsun Weddings
1964
Robert Lowell’s Poems: A Selection
1974
The Snow Party
1974
The Vernacular Republic
1982
The Western Approaches
1975
Ariel
1965
The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New
1950–1984
1984
Collected Poems
1966
Complete Poems
1981
Song at the Year’s Turning
1955
The Star-Apple Kingdom
1979
chosen in this book
Home and Exile
2000
Experience
2000
Memoirs
1991
Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton
2008
Nothing to be Frightened of
2008
Quicksands: A Memoir
2005
Seven Winters
1942
Bowen’s Court
1942
The Journals of John Cheever
1991
Autobiography
1977
The Year of Magical Thinking
2005
Out of Africa
1937
Little Wilson and Big God
1987
You’ve Had Your Time
1990
The Journals Volume 1 1949–1965
2003
The Journals Volume 2 1965–1990
2006
To the Is-Land
1983
An Angel at My Table
1984
The Envoy from Mirror City
1985
A Sort of Life
1971
Ways of Escape
1980
Greene on Capri: A Memoir
2000
Shadows Round the Moon: Caribbean Memoirs
1990
Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here
1998
A Moveable Feast
1964
Time to be in Earnest
2000
Dance on the Earth
1990
The Swan in the Evening
1967
Under My Skin, Volume 1 of my Autobiography
1994
Walking in the Shade, Volume 2 of my Autobiography
1996
The Year of Henry James
2006
Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood
1957
How I Grew
1987
Intellectual Memoirs, New York 1936–1938
1992
Memoir
2005
12 Edmonstone Street
1985
Martini: A Memoir
2005
My Days
1975
Speak, Memory
1951
(new edition 1966)
The Journals of Sylvia Plath
1982
Infants of the Spring
1978
Messengers of the Day
1978
Faces in My Time
1980
The Strangers All Are Gone
1982
Published as one volume:
To Keep the Ball Rolling
1983
The Cab at the Door
1968
Midnight Oil
1971
The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography
1989
Once is Enough
1972
More Than Enough
1975
Never Enough
1978
Published as one volume:
Sargeson
1981
Two Lives
2005
Life Without Armour
1995
Truth, Love and a Little Malice
2002
Ake: The Years of Childhood
Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: A Memoir
1946–1965
Curriculum Vitae – Autobiography
1992
Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
2007
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
1991
Excursions in the Real World: Memoirs
1994
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs
1989
A Little Learning
1964
One Writer’s Beginnings
1984
This Boy’s Life
1989
In Pharoah’s Army
1995
Christophe Tshikala Kamgaji
Chinua Achebe: A Novelist and A Portrait of His Society
2004
Zachary Leader
The Life of Kingsley Amis
2006
James Campbell
Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
1992
Anthony Cronin
Samuel Beckett. The Last Modernist
1996
James Knowlson
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
1996
Victoria Glendinning
Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer
1977
Ted Morgan
Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William Burroughs
1988
Tom Hiney
Raymond Chandler: A Biography
1997
Susannah Clapp
With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer
1997
Nicholas Shakespeare
Bruce Chatwin
1999
Scott Donaldson
John Cheever: A biography
1988
Blake Bailey
Cheever: A life
2009
Laura Thompson
Agatha Christie: The Biography of Agatha Christie
2004
Hilary Spurting
Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett
1884–1919
1974
The Secrets of a Woman’s Heart: The Later Life of Ivy
Compton-Burnett 1920–1969
1984
Judith Skelton Grant
Robertson Davies: Man of Myth
1994
Judith Thurman
Isak Dinesen: The Life of A Story Teller
1986
Margaret Forster
Daphne du Maurier
1993
Lawrence Jackson
Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius
2002
Lavinia Greacen
J. G. Farrell: The Making of A Writer
1999
Frederick R. Karl
William Faulkner: American Writer
1989
Eileen Warburton
John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds
2004
John Carey
William Golding, A Life
2009
Ronald Suresh Roberts
No Cold Kitchen: A Biography of Nadine Gordimer
2005
Rodge Glass
Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography
2008
Jeremy Treglown
Romancing: The Life and Times of Henry Green
2001
Norman Sherry
The Life of Graham Greene Vol 1: 1904–1939
1989
The Life of Graham Greene Vol 2: 1939–1955
1995
The Life of Graham Greene Vol 3: 1956–1991
2004
Sean French
Patrick Hamilton
1993
Carlos Baker
Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story
1969
Jane Aiken Hodge
The Private World of Georgette Heyer
Jonathan Coe
Like A Fiery Elephant: A Life of B. S. Johnson
2005
Barry Miles
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
1998
Selina Hastings
Rosamond Lehmann: A Life
2002
Peter Manso
Mailer: His Life and Times
1989
Frances Kiernan
Seeing Mary Plane: A Life of Mary McCarthy
Virginia Spencer
Carr The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers
1975
Neville Braybrooke and June Braybrooke
Olivia Manning: A Life
2004
Barbara A. Burckhardt
William Maxwell: A Literary Life
2005
Patricia Craig
Brian Moore: A Biography
2003
Brian Boyd
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years
1990
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
1991
Patrick French
The World is What it Is: The Authorised Biography of
V. S. Naipaul
2008
Frank Mac Shane
The Life of John O’Hara
1987
Janet Malcolm
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
1994
Jacqueline Rose
The Haunting of Sylvia Plath
1991
John Givner
Katherine Anne Porter: A Life
1990
Hilary Spurling
Invitation to the Dance: A Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Dance to
the Music of Time
1976
Carol Angier
Jean Rhys: Life and Work
1990
Lillian Pizzichini
The Blue Hour
2009
Michael King
Frank Sargeson: A Life
1995
Hilary Spurling
Paul Scott: A Life
1990
Hazel Rowley
Christina Stead: A Biography
1993
Jay Parini
John Steinbeck: A Biography
1995
Jackson J. Benson
The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography
1989
Hubert Horton McAlexander
Peter Taylor: A Writer’s Life
2004
George Hardy
Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole
2001
Claire Harman
Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography
1989
Selina Hastings
Evelyn Waugh: A Biography
1995
Paul Binding
The Still Moment: Eudora Welty, Portrait of a Writer
1994
David Marr
Patrick White: A Life
1991
Frances Donaldson
P. G. Wodehouse: The Authorised Biography
1992
Robert McCrum
P. G. Wodehouse: A Life
2004
