books by subject
Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights
The Golden Legend: Selections (Penguin Classics)
Stevie Smith: a Critical Biography
Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me
One Leg Over: Having Fun - Mostly - In Peace and War
Scum of the Earth
Mom and Me and Mom
Gather Together In My Name
Torch in My Ear
You've Had Your Time
Chaucer: Brief Lives
Play of the Eyes
Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution
Introducing Shakespeare (Penguin literary criticism)
The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy
North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs Volume IV: More Unreliable Memoirs
Roald Dahl (Famous People Famous Lives)
Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother
Dickens
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)
