books by subject
Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Letters to a Young Poet

Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir

THE SPECKLED PEOPLE.

Isara

U & I: A True Story

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Code Maker's War, 1941-45 (Espionage)

Cypress Walk. Letters from Alun Lewis to Freda Aykroyd: Letters to 'frieda'

Tennyson, 1809-1892: A Centenary Celebration

Our Kate

SHRAPNEL

Palimpsest: A Memoir

The Other Side

Pushkin’s Button

South From Granada (Penguin Modern Classics)

Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy (Penguin Classics)

A Life in Letters

Muriel Spark: The Biography

Floire ET Blanchefleur

Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life

And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life

Sailing by Starlight: In Search of Treasure Island and Robert Louis Stevenson (Armchair Traveller)

By Jack Rosenthal: An Autobiography in Six Acts

Anna Sewell: The Woman Who Wrote Black Beauty

T. S. Eliot (Lives and Legacies)

The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years

Alistair MacLean

Oeuvres

A Mad World, My Masters: Tales from a Traveller's Life
