books by subject
Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights
Just Kids
Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Bront
Will
Priest They Called Him: Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs
One Day I Will Write About This Place
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)