books by subject
Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights
The Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory
Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives
Burning the Days
BoyhoodA Memoir
Basil Street Blues and Mosaic
Grub Street Irregular
A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton
The Genius of Shakespeare
Ceaseless Turmoil: Diaries 1988-1992
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett
No Boys Play Here: A Story of Shakespeare and My Family's Missing Men
Every Third Thought: On life, death and the endgame
Lytton Strachey: The New Biography
The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestsellers
Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet
Michael Foot - A Life
Eden Renewed: Public and Private Life of John Milton
Leonard Woolf: A Biography
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
Furious Interiors: R.S.Thomas, God and Wales
Brian Friel: Essays, Diaries, Interviews: 1964-1999: Essays and Interviews
Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950
William Blake vs the World
Anna of all the Russias: The Life of a Poet under Stalin
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho (Penguin Classics)