books by subject
Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

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

Shakespeare's Wife

Home in the World: A Memoir

The Bride: Images of the Church

Dark Clouds & Silver Linings

George Moore, 1852-1933

Half of a Yellow Sun: The Women’s Prize for Fiction’s ‘Winner of Winners’

Powers of Being: David Holbrook and His Work

Forget Foucault (Foreign Agents) (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)

Always Unreliable: Memoirs

Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano

The Girl from Leam Lane (Centenary Edition): The Life and Writing of Catherine Cookson

Kahlil Gibran Man and Poet: A New Biography

Friends and Enemies: A Memoir
