books by subject
Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Samuel Johnson: A Biography

Shakespeare (Thames & Hudson Literary Lives)

Agatha Christie: A biography

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (New York Review Books Classics)

Thomas Hardy: His Life and Work (Panther Books)

Shakespeare (Life And Works)

Writing Home

Shakespeare (Vintage Lives, 11)

The Multimodal Writer: Creative Writing Across Genres and Media

Contemporary British Drama (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)

The Selected Poems of Cavafy (Penguin Classics)

The Civil War (Penguin Classics)

Year Of The King - An Actor's Diary and Sketchbook

What Language Do I Dream In?: A Memoir

Nyx in the House of Night: Mythology, Folklore and Religion in the PC and Kristin Cast Vampyre Series

Charles Darwin (Critical Lives)

Writing Song Lyrics: A Creative and Critical Approach (Approaches to Writing)

Selected Letters (Oxford World's Classics)

Browning

To the Edge of the Sea: Schooldays of a Crofter's Child

The Furrow Behind Me: the Autobiography of a Hebridean Crofter

Lifelines: Letters from Famous People About Their Favourite Poem (Omnibus edition of all 4 volumes)

Mrs Gaskell and Me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart

An Angel At My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Virago Modern Classics)

The Wild Track: adopting, mothering, belonging

The Road to Wigan Pier (Penguin Modern Classics)

Chaucer: Brief Lives

It's a Good Life, if You Don't Weaken

Life of Olaudah Equiano, The 2nd. Edition (Longman African Writers/Classics)
