books by subject
Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

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

Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's 'Journey Out of Essex'

Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape

Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett

The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son

Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure, The

Fathers and Sons

Pages From The Goncourt Journals (New York Review Books Classics)

George Eliot: A Life

This is How You Disappear: A Book of Elegies

The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir

Walden: Henry David Thoreau (Vintage Classics)

James Joyce (Oxford Lives)

Said And Done

Elegy for Iris

Poems and Prose (Poets)

Charles Dickens

Shakespeare: The World as a Stage

The Genius of Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)

Shakespeare: The World As A Stage

In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism (Edinburgh Companions to Literature)

John Donne: Life, Mind and Art

May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds
