Pierke
Pierke

Authors Language Literature

The Boy Who Loved Books: A Memoir
Daphne
C. S. Lewis - A Life
The End of Your Life Book Club
The Dangerous Edge of Things
The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing
Fou Lei An Insistence on Truth
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things
Design Principles for Teaching Effective Writing
The king's jaunt: George IV in Scotland, August, 1822, "one and twenty daft days"
Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language
Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up
Betjeman: A Life
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Not The Whole Story

Agatha Christie
Agnon's Story: A Psychoanalytic Biography of S. Y. Agnon
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
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The Man who Would be Sherlock

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Bandersnatch
Kenneth Clark
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The hobbit
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Manderley Forever

Jane Austen at Home
Myself When Young
A Circle of Sisters
One Hot Summer
J. R. R. Tolkien : a biography
The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
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The Word I'm Thinking Of

The Rare and the Beautiful
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
Love from Boy
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
The Enchanted Hour
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Ostende

The Lost Words
Murder by the Book
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J.R.R. Tolkien

The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Summoned by Bells

In Search of Conrad
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
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Caught in the Web of Words

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A Chainless Soul

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Letters from Menabilly

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Grandmother's Footsteps

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Young Betjeman

Daphne du Maurier
Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
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Art of Kate Greenaway, The

Isak Dinesen Her Life in Pictures
The Day Gone By: An Autobiography
The Invisible Woman
Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein
Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us
A.A. Milne. His life
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Rebecca West

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Quiller Couch

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John Betjeman

Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
Portrait of a Marriage
John Buchan and his World
Robert Stevenson in the South Seas: An Intimate Photographic Record
Tennyson Album
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The Story of English

The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography
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Landscapes of Memory

Shelley and His World
Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
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The Making of Poetry

The Meaning of Everything
Club
The Man in the Red Coat
Square Haunting
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Parnell and His Times

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A Place For Everything

Persian Historiography across Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals
The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: Critical Thinking in the Age of Bias, Contested Truth, and Disinformation
Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
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Good Wives?

Memory Hold-the-Door: The Autobiography of John Buchan
The Rebecca Notebook: and Other Memories
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The Brontës

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
Walking the Invisible
The Golden Age of Murder
The Turning Point: 1851. A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
Kingdom of Characters
The History Behind Game of Thrones: The North Remembers
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