books by subject
Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Memoir

Untold Stories

Untold Stories

Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2005

William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies

Writing Home

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our year of seasonal eating

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume One: 1898-1922

1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear

Other Colours

Other Colours

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Stage Directions: Writing on Theatre 1970-2008

Stage Directions: Writing on Theatre 1970-2008

Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas

Talking about Detective Fiction

Country Girl

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels

The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir

Writing Home

In Parenthesis (Poets of the Great War)

Places I've Taken My Body

The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall

A Preface to Spenser (Preface Books)

Moments of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical Writings

The World of Charles Dickens (Panther S.)

Samuel Pepys: The Man in the Making v. 1 (Panther Books)
