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Auden, W H:
Auden by Richard Davenport-Hines Rating: 4 - A top read
Wystan and Chester by Thekla Clark Rating: 3 - Worth reading
Beauvoir, Simone de:
Mémoires d'une jeune Fille rangée (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter) by Simone de Beauvoir Rating: 3 - Worth reading
Beethoven, Ludwig van:
Beethoven: His Spiritual Development by JWN Sullivan Rating: 4 - A top read
Bennett, Alan:
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett Rating: 4 - A top read
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett Rating: 3 - Worth reading
Bernhard, Thomas:
Wittgensteins Neffe (Wittgenstein's Nephew) by Thomas Bernhard Rating: 4 - A top read
Cardus, Neville:
The Great Romantic: Cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus by Duncan Hamilton Rating: 4 - A top read
Carey, John:
The Unexpected Professor by John Carey Rating: 4 - A top read
Crowhurst, Donald:
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst by Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall Rating: 4 - A top read
Dirac, Paul:
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo Rating: 4 - A top read
Diski, Jenny:
Skating to Antarctica by Jenny Diski Rating: 3 - Worth reading
Einstein, Albert:
The Private Lives of Albert Einstein by Roger Highfield / Paul Carter Rating: 4 - A top read
Gide, André:
André Gide: A Life in the Present by Alan Sheridan Rating: 3 - Worth reading
Graves, Robert:
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves Rating: 4 - A top read
Hardy, Thomas:
The Older Hardy by Robert Gittings Rating: 4 - A top read
Young Thomas Hardy by Robert Gittings Rating: 4 - A top read
Hartley, Jean:
Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me by Jean Hartley Rating: 3 - Worth reading
Johnson, Samuel:
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell Rating: 4 - A top read
Jones, Monica:
Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me by John Sutherland Rating: 3 - Worth reading
Kafka, Franz:
Brief an den Vater (Letter to Father) by Franz Kafka Rating: 4 - A top read
Larkin, Philip:
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion Rating: 5 - A personal favourite
Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me by Jean Hartley Rating: 3 - Worth reading
Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me by John Sutherland Rating: 3 - Worth reading
The Philip Larkin I Knew by Maeve Brennan Rating: 3 - Worth reading
Lawrence, D H:
D H Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider by John Worthen Rating: 4 - A top read
Lee, Laurie:
I Can't Stay Long by Laurie Lee Rating: 4 - A top read
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee Rating: 4 - A top read
A Rose for Winter by Laurie Lee Rating: 3 - Worth reading
A Moment of War by Laurie Lee Rating: 3 - Worth reading
Lively, Penelope:
Oleander, Jacaranda by Penelope Lively Rating: 4 - A top read
Menuhin, Yehudi:
Unfinished Journey by Yehudi Menuhin Rating: 3 - Worth reading
O'Hanlon, Redmond:
The Fetish Room by Rudi Rotthier Rating: 4 - A top read
Palin, Michael:
Diaries 1969-79: The Python Years by Michael Palin Rating: 4 - A top read
Pauli, Wolfgang:
Brücken zum Kosmos (Bridges to the Cosmos) by Ernst Peter Fischer Rating: 3 - Worth reading
Potter, Dennis:
Dennis Potter by Humphrey Carpenter Rating: 3 - Worth reading
Regeniter, Anna:
Ein Jahr in London (A Year in London) by Anna Regeniter Rating: 4 - A top read
Sacks, Oliver:
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks Rating: 4 - A top read
Sartre, Jean-Paul:
Les Mots (Words) by Jean-Paul Sartre Rating: 4 - A top read
Thomas, R S:
The Man Who Went Into the West: The Life of of R S Thomas by Byron Rogers Rating: 4 - A top read
Wittgenstein, Paul:
Wittgensteins Neffe (Wittgenstein's Nephew) by Thomas Bernhard Rating: 4 - A top read
Z'Graggen, Yvette:
Changer l'oubli (Unforgetting) by Yvette Z'Graggen Rating: 4 - A top read

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