Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

George Eliot (Very Interesting People S.)

By Rosemary Ashton

Auden

By Richard Davenport-Hines

The Life and Times of William Shakespeare

By Peter Levi

The Notebooks Of Joseph Joubert

By Joseph Joubert

Orwell: A Man Of Our Time

By Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, UK)

The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century

By Ariane Bankes

To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde

By Rupert Everett

The World of Little House

By carolyn-strom-collins-christina-wyss-eriksson

On Acting

By Laurence Olivier

Lives of the English Poets: v. 2

By Samuel Johnson

Lives of the English Poets: v. 1

By Samuel Johnson

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

By Daniel Stashower, Jon L. Lellenberg, Charles Foley

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited

By Philip Eade

The Invisible Woman

By Claire Tomalin

Back in the Day: The deeply affecting, first ever memoir by beloved national treasure Melvyn Bragg

By Melvyn Bragg

Hope Against Hope

By Nadezhda Mandelstam

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

By William Barrett

What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

By John Mullan

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Joyce, James

Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime

By Jang Jin-Sung

Simone De Beauvoir

By D Bair

The Last Leopard

By David Gilmour

James Joyce

By Andrew Gibson

Charles Dickens

By Rob Abbott, Charlie Bell

Charles Dickens

By Rod Mengham

George Herbert: A Portrait

By Nick Page

Splendours and Miseries: Biography of Sacheverell Sitwell

By Sarah H. Bradford

Chaucer: A Beginner's Guide

By Dr. Catherine Richardson

Philip Larkin: The Man and His Work

By Dale Salwak

No Time for Romance

By Lucilla Andrews