Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

George Herbert: A Portrait

By Nick Page

Charles Dickens

By Rod Mengham

Charles Dickens

By Rob Abbott, Charlie Bell

James Joyce

By Andrew Gibson

The Last Leopard

By David Gilmour

Simone De Beauvoir

By D Bair

Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime

By Jang Jin-Sung

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Joyce, James

Banjo: The story of the man who wrote Waltzing Matilda

By Paul Terry

Shakespeare: The Lost Years

By E. A. J. Honigmann

Shelley's Boat: The Turbulent, Tragic Last Weeks of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By Julian Roach

William Shakespeare: His Life and Times

By Dennis Kay

Shakespeare's Professional Career

By Peter Thomson (University of Exeter)

In Search of Swallows and Amazons: Arthur Ransome's Lakeland

By Roger Wardale

Diaries

By Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Hart- Davis, Rupert Hart-Davis

I Love Churchill: 400 Fantastic Facts

By Cate Ludlow

Teddy Bears: An Anthology of Verse and Prose

Joy of the Snow

By Elizabeth Goudge

My Son's Father: An Autobiography

By Dom Moraes

The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

By Ramachandra Guha

Voltaire: A Life

By Ian Davidson

Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Shapes our World

By Andrew Hill

Bellow

By James Atlas

Friends and Enemies: A Memoir

By Barbara Amiel

Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman

By Nuala O'Faolain

Tolstoy

By Henri Troyat

Franz Kafka

By Klaus Wagenbach

The Making of Yeat's "A Vision: A Study of the Automatic Script

By George M Harper

Serving God and Gods Creatures

By Bernard Braley

W.B. Yeats: a Literary Life

By Alisdair D.F. Macrae (Senior Lecturer, University of Sterling)