Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Joy of the Snow

By Elizabeth Goudge

Teddy Bears: An Anthology of Verse and Prose

I Love Churchill: 400 Fantastic Facts

By Cate Ludlow

Diaries

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

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

By Roger Wardale

Shakespeare's Professional Career

By Peter Thomson (University of Exeter)

William Shakespeare: His Life and Times

By Dennis Kay

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

By Julian Roach

Shakespeare: The Lost Years

By E. A. J. Honigmann

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

By Bakewell, Sarah

Dante: The Poet, the Thinker, the Man

By Barbara Reynolds

Letters from My Father

By kenneth allsop, Amanda Allsop

Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction

By Germaine Greer

A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story

By Polly Morland, Richard Baker

Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

By Austen, Jane, Ballaster, Ros, Tanner, Tony

Up in the Attic

By Pam Ayres

Paula

By Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden

Virgil: His Life and Times

By Peter Levi

On Seamus Heaney

By Roy Foster

The World of Jane Austen

By Nigel Nicolson, Stephen Colover

A Dance with Jane Austen: How a Novelist and her Characters Went to the Ball

By Susannah Fullerton, Deirdre Le Faye

Wilde

By Jonathan Fryer

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

By Joyce, James

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 Death in Malta: An assassination and a family's quest for justice

By Paul Caruana Galizia

Diary of an Invasion

By Andrey Kurkov

Tropic of Cancer (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Miller, Henry

William Wordsworth: A Biography

By Hunter Davies