Biographies about Essays

An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017

By Daniel Mendelsohn

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

By Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, Charles Foley, Arthur Conan Doyle

Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946-1969

By Violet Bonham Carter, Mark Pottle, Mary Soames

Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power

By Alastair Campbell

Heinz Berggruen: Highway and Byways

By Heinz Berggruen, Robin Benson

Over Hill and Dale

By Phinn, Gervase

What We Talk about when We Talk about Faith

By Peter Stanford

Captain John Smith: A Select Edition of His Writings

By Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Mortification: Writers' Stories of their Public Shame

By Robin Robertson

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

Geoffrey Boycott on Cricket

By Geoff Boycott

Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life

By Hobsbawm, Eric

Slipstream: A Memoir

By Jane Howard, Elizabeth

Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman

The Women

By Alice Taylor

The World According to Groucho Marx

By Groucho Marx

Tarte Tatin: More of La Belle Vie on Rue Tatin

By Susan Loomis

"BB": A Celebration

By B. B., Tom Quinn, Denys Watkins-Pitchford

Queen Victoria's Highland Journals

By Queen Victoria, David Duff

Call Me Mrs. Brown: The hilarious autobiography from the star of Mrs. Brown's Boys

By Brendan O'Carroll

Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010

By Mullin, Chris

The Spiral Staircase

By Armstrong, Karen

The Accidental Memoir

By Anthony Cropper, Eve Makis

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor

By Pemberton, Max

A Dr. Johnson Chronology: Chronologies-Reference

By Norma Page

Letter to My Younger Self: Inspirational Women

By Jane Graham, The Big Issue

Curzon's Persia

By George Nathaniel Curzon, P. King

The Grace of Friendship: Horace Walpole and the Misses Berry

By Horace Walpole, Virginia Surtees

Sydney Smith

By Alan Bell