books by subject
Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Charles Dickens

My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson

Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings

J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography

Dylan Thomas in America

Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years - A Memoir, 1945-67

Silver Poets of the 16th Century

Charles Dickens at Home

Wilfred Owen: An Illustrated Life

Jacko Jacobus

Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography

Mungo Park: Surgeon and West African Explorer

Walden

A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846: 'Sizzles and steams . . . Beautifully written.' (The Times)

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Macbeth: The True Story

Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976

Went to London, Took the Dog: The Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway

Thomas Hardy: A Biography

The Brontes

Dennis Potter: The Authorised Biography

Outlaw Journalist the Life of Hunter S.Thompson

Paradiso - Paradise v. 3: The Divine Comedy (Penguin Classics)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Shakespeare Companion

The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John Bingham

Antonin Artaud: Man of Vision

National Theatre Connections 2018: The Blue Electric Wind; The Changing Room; The Free9; The Ceasefire Babies; These Bridges; When They Go Low; Want; The Sweetness of a Sting; Dungeness
