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Zweig, Stefan

the novels of, [6] 31

Youssoupoff, Felix

Lost Splendour, [55] 54

Yonge, Charlotte M.

The Little Duke, [55] 81

Wu Ch’êng-ên

Monkey, [43] 56

Woolf, Virginia

Mrs Dalloway, [18] 7; The Waves, [48] 44

Wollstonecraft, Mary

Letters Written in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, [51] 63

Wodehouse, P. G.

The Clicking of Cuthbert; Heart of a Goof, [27] 74; Uncle Fred in the Springtime, [52] 85

Wilson, Angus

the novels of, [29] 18

Williamson, C. N. & A. M.

the novels of, [21] 17

Williams, John

Augustus, [58] 20

Wharton, Edith

the library of, [11] 42

Westerman, Percy F.

the stories of, [37] 81

West, Nathanael

the novels of, [10] 84

Wells, H. G.

The Complete Short Stories, [37] 86; The History of Mr Polly, [59] 43

Welch, Ronald

For the King; Knight Crusader; The Galleon, [39] 5, 30; Captain of Foot, [41] 6; Bowman of Crécy; The Hawk, [43] 6; Captain of Dragoons, [45] 46; Escape from France; Nicholas Carey, [47] 39; Mohawk Valley, [49] 41; Ensign Carey; Tank Commander, [51] 6; Sun of York, [53] 6; The Road to Waterloo, [57] 6

Welch, Denton

A Voice through a Cloud, [5] 58; the works of, [38] 50

Wei, Jingsheng

The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings, [42] 35

Waugh, Alec

the novels of, [16] 80

Watkins-Pitchford, Denys [‘BB’]

Brendon Chase, [25] 31; [59] 31; The Little Grey Men & Down the Bright Stream, [55] 31

Waterhouse, Keith

Billy Liar; There Is a Happy Land; In the Mood, [48] 22

Walpole, Hugh

the novels of, [20] 69, 75

Walpole, Horace

the letters of, [37] 69

Walmsley, Leo

the novels of, [26] 16

Walker, Ted

The High Path, [25] 17; The Last of England, [51] 80

Walker, Katherine Sorley & Gardiner, Dorothy

(eds.): Raymond Chandler Speaking, [19] 61

Wainwright, Alfred

the books of, [30] 7

Von Rezzori, Gregor

the novels of, [15] 41

Verney, John

Going to the Wars; A Dinner of Herbs, [12] 62

Updike, John

Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest, [47] 27

Unsworth, Barry

the novels of, [22] 43

Trollope, Anthony

the Irish novels of, [59] 38

Travels of Ibn Battutah, The

Tim Mackintosh-Smith on, [18] 86

Tinniswood, Peter

the novels of, [12] 32

Thubron, Colin

Mirror to Damascus; Among the Russians; Behind the Wall; In Siberia, [58] 26

Thoreau, Henry

Walden, [27] 64; A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, [58] 58

Thomas Ellis, Alice

the novels of, [31] 22

Thirkell, Angela

the novels of, [7] 56

Television documentaries

Tim Mackintosh-Smith on, [18] 86

Taylor, Elizabeth

At Mrs Lippincote’s, [13] 33; A Game of Hide and Seek, [58] 46

Svevo, Italo

Zeno’s Conscience, [55] 75

Sutcliff, Rosemary

the novels of, [4] 25; Blue Remembered Hills, [17] 18

Surtees, R. S.

the novels of, [31] 73

Stuart-Clark, Christopher & Harrison, Michael (eds.)

The Dragon Book of Verse, [56] 41

Storm, Theodor

the novels of, [6] 76

Stendhal

the works of, [30] 41

St Aubyn, Edward

The Patrick Melrose trilogy, [5] 67

South Africa

John Conyngham on the literary history of, [21] 87

Somers, Spencer

Tea at Florian’s, [56] 75

Sitwell, Osbert

the works of, [36] 81

Simmonds, Posy

the cartoons of, [15] 7; cover illustration by, [16]

Shaw, George Bernard

the plays of, [57] 89

Seymour, John

The Fat of the Land; Self-Sufficiency, [26] 62

Seton, Anya

the novels of, [10] 80

Sendak, Maurice

the works of, [20] 32

Schwarz-Bart, André

The Last of the Just, [57] 51

Sayers, Dorothy L.

the novels of, [32] 82

Rogers, David

(ed.): A Victorian Schoolboy in London: The Diary of Ernest Baker, [57] 56

Roche, Paul

the cookery books and poetry of, [8] 7

Robinson, Derek

articles by, [7] 86; [12] 87; [17] 71; [32] 77; the novels of, [2] 39

Rizal, José

Noli Me Tangere, [57] 18

Rhys, Jean

the novels of, [4] 48; Quartet; Voyage in the Dark, [51] 85

Rhodes, Dan

the novels of, [50] 49

Reynolds, Reginald

Beards: An Omnium Gatherum, [58] 90

Reynolds, Frank

Punch cartoons of, [56] 53

Raverat, Gwen

Period Piece, [8] 46; [40] 14

Raven, Simon

the novels of, [8] 70

Ransome, Arthur

The Swallows and Amazons books, [18] 13; Racundra’s First Cruise, [35] 57; Rod & Line, [53] 68

Quiller-Couch, (Sir) Arthur

novels of, [21] 77; (ed.), The Oxford Book of Ballads, [48] 28

Proust, Marcel

Remembrance of Things Past, [56] 18; [57] 60; [58] 52

Prescott, H. F. M.

The Man on a Donkey, [58] 70

Powys, John Cowper

the novels of, [33] 33

Powell, Margaret

the memoirs of, [15] 65

Potter, Stephen

the books of, [23] 73

Plomer, William

Turbott Wolfe, [58] 75

Pimlott, Ben

The Queen, [57] 7

Peel, J. H. B.

the books of, [36] 88

Oxford Junior Encyclopedia

Ysenda Maxtone Graham on, [56] 65

Orwell, George

Keep the Aspidistra Flying, [11] 36; Down and Out in Paris and London, [21] 7; Burmese Days, [40] 75; Essays, [56] 58

O’Donnell, Peter

the novels and cartoons of, [11] 27

O’Brien, Flann

the novels of, [41] 49

O’Brien, Edna

the novels of, [35] 19

Noakes, Vivien

Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer, [56] 7

Newby, Eric

Something Wholesale, [15] 36; [57] 13

Nesbit, E.

the stories of, [4] 56; [7] 76; [12] 50

Narayan, R. K.

the novels of, [22] 26

Museum of Jurassic Technology, The

Lyall Watson on, [2] 32

Murdoch, Iris

the novels of, [25] 7

Mulford, Clarence E.

the books of, [29] 86

Morris, Jan

the Pax Britannica trilogy, [12] 38; Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere, [58] 85

Moore, John

Portrait of Elmbury, [42] 6; Brensham Village,[50] 14; The Blue Field, [58] 14

Moore, George

Esther Waters, [55] 71

Montgomery, L. M.

the novels of, [23] 82

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

the letters of, [57] 33

Mitford, Jessica

Hons and Rebels; A Fine Old Conflict, [41] 69

Mitchell, Henry

the gardening books of, [10] 24

Milton, John

Paradise Lost, [58] 32

Milne, A. A.

It’s Too Late Now, [57] 23

Millar, George

the life and writings of, [19] 70

Middleton, Stanley

the novels of, [43] 79

Memoirs, the writing of

Patrick Coldstream on, [17] 87

Maxwell, William

the novels of, [2] 15; letters to Sylvia Townsend Warner, [10] 60

Maurois, André

The Silence of Colonel Bramble, [55] 85

Martin, J. P.

the novels of, [22] 22

Marshall, Owen

the short stories of, [8] 52

Marsh, Edward

A Number of People, [57] 79

Mantel, Hilary

A Place of Greater Safety, [51] 69; Giving up the Ghost, [53] 13

Mann, Thomas

The Magic Mountain, [59] 20

Manhood, H. A.

the short stories and novels of, [27] 17

Mair, John

Never Come Back, [58] 81

Maeterlinck, Maurice

The Life of the Bee, [56] 25

Macdonell, A. G.

the novels of, [10] 64

Lyall, Gavin

The Wrong Side of the Sky; The Most Dangerous Game; Midnight Plus One; Shooting Script; Judas Country, [56] 30

Lowry, Malcolm

the stories of, [37] 45

Lloyd, Christopher

The Well-Tempered Garden; In My Garden: The Garden Diaries of Great Dixter; Cuttings, [59] 84

Lispector, Clarice

the novels of, [37] 64

Lewis, C. S.

A Grief Observed, [2] 71; the works of, [12] 48; (ed.), George Macdonald: An Anthology, [35] 66

Lees-Milne, James

portrait of, [8] 17; the diaries of, [8] 23; Another Self, [24] 16

Lear, Edward

William Palmer on Vivien Noakes, Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer, [56] 7

Lavin, Mary

the novels of, [30] 77

Larkin, Philip

the works of, [33] 29

Lancaster, Osbert

All Done from Memory; With an Eye to the Future, [59] 25

Lambert, Gavin

the novels, memoirs and film scripts of, [12] 57

Kurtz, Irma

article by, [4] 60; The Great American Bus Ride, [42] 49

Kneale, Matthew

English Passengers, [57] 61

Kipling, Rudyard

Puck of Pook’s Hill, [33] 72; Indian stories and poems, [54] 34 & [55] 42; Captains Courageous, [56] 86; Kim, [57] 40

Keay, John

the works of, [15] 52; articles by, [1] 49; [6] 67; [22] 26; [26] 21; [36] 63; [45] 25; [54] 59

Keats, John

the letters of, [40] 79

Keane, Molly

the novels of, [28] 73

Kavan, Anna

the novels of, [11] 47

Kästner, Erich

When I Was a Little Boy, [56] 13

Karon, Jan

the novels of, [34] 64

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

the works of, [18] 31

Janson, Hank

the novels of, [33] 88

Irwin, Margaret

Young Bess; Elizabeth, Captive Princess; Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain, [55] 49

Huxley, Aldous

Crome Yellow, [34] 74; The Devils of Loudun, [55] 60

Hutchinson, R. C.

the novels of, [35] 44

Howard, Elizabeth Jane

the Cazalet Chronicles, [52] 30

Holtby, Winifred

the novels of, [32] 63

Holroyd, Michael

articles by [42] 7; [46] 46; [50] 49; [52] 24; [54] 53; [56] 91; Lytton Strachey: The New Biography, [41] 78; Basil Street Blues, [45] 6

Hoffman, Eva

Lost in Translation, [55] 26

Hill, Geoffrey

Collected Poems, [55] 19

Heyer, Georgette

the novels of, [16] 20

Herzen, Alexander

the memoirs of, [51] 7

Harrison, Michael & Stuart-Clark, Christopher (eds.)

The Dragon Book of Verse, [56] 41

Gunesekera, Romesh

Reef, [5] 21; article by, [57] 18

Guide to the city of Moscow, 1937

Michael Barber on, [59] 74

Grossman, Vasily

the novels of, [16] 58

Greene, Graham

Collected Essays, [1] 39; Journey without Maps, [18] 70; Stamboul Train, [22] 7; A Sort of Life, [27] 12; (ed.): The Old School, [59] 62

Gray, Simon

the novels of, [5] 12

Gray, Nicholas Stuart

the works of, [18] 66

Graves, Robert

Lars Porsena or the Future of Swearing, [45] 90; Goodbye to All That, [51] 52

Granville, Harriet, Countess

the letters of, [48] 74

Graham, Ysenda Maxtone

articles by, [14] 72; [32] 24; [36] 68; [38] 20; [40] 88; [44] 26; [54] 7; [56] 65; Mr Tibbits’s Catholic School, [31] 12; The Real Mrs Miniver, [37] 12; Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding-Schools, 1939–1979, [52] 13

Golding, William

the novels of, [7] 18, 24

Gissing, George

New Grub Street, [16] 64; [55] 37

Gilmour, David

articles by, [4] 22; [12] 38; [30] 41; [41] 22; [54] 34; [55] 42; The Last Leopard, [11] 57

Garnett, David

(ed.): Carrington: Letters and Extracts from Her Diaries, [41] 78

Gardiner, Dorothy & Walker, Katherine Sorley

(eds.): Raymond Chandler Speaking, [19] 61

Gardam, Jane

article by, [3] 84; the novels and short stories of, [28] 2

Galbraith, J. K.

The Great Crash, 1929, [21] 33; The Affluent Society, [25] 36

Gainham, Sarah

the novels of, [15] 80

Freud, Sigmund

Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, [20] 84

Frankau, Pamela

the works of, [21] 62

Francis, Robert

Travelling in Amherst, [56] 71

Forster, E. M.

A Passage to India, [13] 79; Two Cheers for Democracy, [44] 33; Marianne Thornton, 1797–1887, [58] 64

Forest, Antonia

novels of, [21] 28

Fitzgerald, Penelope

The Beginning of Spring, [1] 32; The Knox Brothers, [49] 63; Charlotte Mew and Her Friends, [51] 41

Fisher, M. F. K.

the writings of, [13] 18, 26

Ferguson, Ruby

the ‘Jill’ books of, [58] 39

Faber & Faber

life at, [55] 89

Evans, Philip Rhys

A Country Doctor’s Commonplace Book, [59] 6

Erdal, Jennie

article by, [21] 22

Dunsany, Lord

The Curse of the Wise Woman, [57] 29

Du Maurier, Daphne

The Parasites, [13] 13; The House on the Strand, [59] 79

Dragon Book of Verse, The

Michael Barber on, [56] 41

Dinesen, Isak

Seven Gothic Tales, [59] 52

Dickens, Charles

the works of, [41] 88

Deighton, Len

Bomber, [59] 47

De Vries, Peter

the novels of, [21] 22

Dampier, William

the works of, [18] 60

Cresswell, H. B.

The Honeywood File; The Honeywood Settlement, [40] 58

Cornford, F. M.

Microcosmographia Academica, [49] 51

Cooper, Susan

The Dark Is Rising quintet, [52] 80

Coney, Michael G.

the works of, [29] 28

Comyns, Barbara

the novels of, [42] 19

Collins, Billy

the poetry of, [17] 71

Cobb, Richard

the works of, [33] 21, [41] 22

Child, Lee

the novels of, [21] 68

Chandler, Raymond

the novels of, [8] 40; the letters of, [19] 61

Cecil, David

The Stricken Deer, or the Life of William Cowper, [58] 7

Causley, Charles

Collected Poems, [32] 42

Caudwell, Sarah

the novels of, [23] 45

Carey, John

The Essential Paradise Lost, [58] 32

Camus, Albert

The Outsider, [11] 13; The Plague, [59] 57

Buchan, John

The Complete Richard Hannay, [2] 84; Greenmantle; John Macnab, [26] 36; Mr Standfast, [44] 7; Montrose; Witch Wood, [51] 47

Brown, George Mackay

the essays of, [4] 32; An Orkney Tapestry, [53] 76

Brown, Craig

(ed.): A John Verney Collection, [12] 62

Broster, D. K.

the novels of, [22] 61

Brontë, Emily

Wuthering Heights, [56] 47

Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.

the Chalet School books, [56] 80

Brennan, Maeve

The Long-winded Lady, [59] 7

Breem, Wallace

the novels of, [27] 55

Branch, Pamela

the novels of, [36] 73

Bradley, Alan

the Flavia de Luce mysteries, [55] 65

Brackley, Frida

(ed.): Brackles: Memoirs of a Pioneer of Civil Aviation, [32] 30

Bowman, John

(ed.): A Critical Edition of the Private Diaries of Robert Proctor: The Life of a Librarian at the British Museum, [59] 89

Bowker, Gordon

articles by, [11] 36; [17] 82; [37] 45; [38] 14; [42] 83; [46] 72; [52] 43

Bookmarks

Paul Robinson on, [39] 90

Booker, Christopher

The Seven Basic Plots, [44] 43

Book titles

Frances Wood on, [20] 90; Sarah Crowden on, [32] 92

Book signing, the etiquette of

Oliver Pritchett on, [31] 54

Book of Common Prayer (1662)

Anthony Wells on, [36] 57

Book forgery and theft

Charles Elliott on, [22] 87

Book browsing, the etiquette of

Oliver Pritchett on, [35] 41

Book borrowing, the etiquette of

Oliver Pritchett on, [33] 58

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Clisson and Eugénie, [25] 78

Bolton, Angela

The Maturing Sun: An Army Nurse in India, 1942‒1945, [54] 88

Boldrewood, Rolf

Robbery under Arms, [26] 82

Bokun, Branko

Spy in the Vatican, [18] 77

Bodio, Stephen

Querencia, [19] 51

Blythe, Ronald

Akenfield, [11] 7; article by, [17] 7; the Wormingford books, [40] 8

Blanch, Lesley

the works of, [3] 34; Round the World in Eighty Dishes, [50] 8

Blackburn, Julia

The Emperor’s Last Island, [1] 28; article by, [48] 28

Birch, Dinah

(ed.): John Ruskin: Selected Writings, [3] 74

Biography

Michael Holroyd on, [56] 91

Bielenberg, Christabel

The Past Is Myself, [39] 13

Bey, Ahmed Hassanein

The Lost Oases, [34] 19

Betts, P. Y.

People Who Say Goodbye, [7] 12; [29] 14

Betjeman, John

Summoned by Bells, [28] 54; Collected Poems, [44] 54

Best, Nicholas

Tennis and the Masai, [34] 84

Berry, Wendell

Jayber Crow, [14] 35, 40

Beowulf

[13] 67

Bentley, E. C.

the clerihews of, [16] 50

Bensusan, S. L.

Village Idylls; A Marshland Omnibus, [41] 63

Benson, E. F.

the Mapp and Lucia novels, [54] 76

Bennett, Donald

Pathfinder, [32] 30

Bemelmans, Ludwig

Hotel Bemelmans, [18] 26

Belloc, Hilaire

Cautionary Tales for Children, [48] 19

Bell, Adrian

Corduroy, [22] 16; Silver Ley, [46] 13; The Cherry Tree, [54] 14

Beevor, Antony & Vinogradova, Luba

(ed. and trans.): A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945, [16] 58

Beeton, Isabella

Household Management, [25] 92

Beerbohm, Max

Seven Men and Two Others, [12] 81; Zuleika Dobson, [42] 59

Bedford, Sybille

A Legacy, [38] 45

Bede, Cuthbert

The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green, [55] 7

Beauman, Nicola

The Other Elizabeth Taylor, [58] 46

BB

[Denys Watkins-Pitchford]: Brendon Chase, [25] 31; [59] 31; The Little Grey Men & Down the Bright Stream, [55] 31

Baynes, Pauline

illustrations of, [41] 44

Baum, L. Frank

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, [39] 71

Bates, H. W

The Naturalist on the River Amazons, [10] 38

Bates, H. E.

The Darling Buds of May, [36] 24

Bates, Brian

The Way of the Actor, [53] 35

Bassani, Giorgio

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, [12] 69

Bason, Fred

Diaries, [31] 58

Basho, Matsuo

The Narrow Road to the Deep North, [57] 73

Barker, A. L.

Innocents; The Joy-Ride and After; The Middling; Life Stories, [56] 35

Baring, Maurice

Have You Anything to Declare? [28] 26

Baring-Gould, Sabine

Cheap Jack Zita, [3] 30; Iceland, Its Scenes and Sagas, [11] 71

Banks, Marjorie A. & Thomas, Howard

(eds.): Brighter Blackout Book, [36] 78

Banffy, Miklos

The Writing on the Wall: The Transylvanian Trilogy, [5] 54

Baldwin, James

Giovanni’s Room, [6] 42

Balchin, Nigel

The Small Back Room, [24] 60; Mine Own Executioner, [51] 58

Baker, Nicholson

The Everlasting Story of Nory, [35] 80

Baker, J. A.

The Peregrine, [45] 31

Bainbridge, Beryl

the novels of, [43] 26

Ayres, Jack

(ed.): Paupers and Pig Killers: The Diary of William Holland, A Somerset Parson, 1799‒1818, [47] 68

Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice, [24] 78

Audiobooks

Jonathan James Moore on, [5] 70

Auchincloss, Louis

A Writer’s Capital, [46] 63

Aubrey, John

Brief Lives, [28] 83

Atkinson, Robert

Island Going, [50] 30

Athill, Diana

article by, [28] 61; After a Funeral, [2] 57

Astley, Neil

(ed.): Staying Alive; Being Alive, [31] 7

Asquith, Raymond

Life and Letters, [59] 68

Asquith, H. H.

Letters to Venetia Stanley, [59] 68

Ashford, Daisy

The Young Visiters, [28] 7

Arseniev, V. K.

Dersu the Trapper, [31] 68

Armstrong, Karen

A Short History of Myth, [7] 84

Arlen, Michael

The Green Hat, [7] 27

Ardizzone, Edward

The Young Ardizzone, [28] 14, [41] 6; & Gorham, Maurice: The Local; Back to the Local, [28] 32

Animals in fiction

Justin Cartwright on, [1] 38

Angus, James Stout

A Glossary of the Shetland Dialect, [49] 36

Andrews, Michael

The Life that Lives on Man, [14] 11

Anderson, Hans Christian

The Most Incredible Thing, [4] 57

Amis, Kingsley

The Green Man, [20] 57

American chain bookstores

Jeff Haltiner on, [2] 92

Ambler, Eric

the novels of, [24] 17

Allingham, Margery

The Oaken Heart, [40] 79; the Albert Campion books, [52] 7

Alcott, Louisa May

the novels of, [32] 57

Alain-Fournier

Le Grand Meaulnes, [46] 67

Al-Tahtawi, Rifa‘a Rafı‘

An Imam in Paris, [3] 48

Aickman, Robert

Dark Entries; Cold Hand in Mine; The Unsettled Dust; The Wine-Dark Sea, [47] 7

Agate, James

Ego, [40] 64

Adams, Richard

Watership Down, [54] 30

Adam, Ruth

A House in the Country, [57] 46

Acknowledgements

Oliver Pritchett on, [28] 90

Achebe, Chinua

Things Fall Apart, [22] 37

Abbey, Edward

Desert Solitaire, [30] 82

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