books by subject
Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

John Donne: The Poems (Analysing Texts)

The Junior Dean R B McDowell: Encounters with a Legend

Samuel Johnson: A Biography

Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life

Too Afraid to Cry – Memoir of a Stolen Childhood

Sex Object: A Memoir

Family Phantoms (Puffin poetry)

Istanbul: Memories and the City (Vintage International)

The Invisible Wall

Shakespeare (DK Eyewitness)

The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Such Stuff: A Story-maker's Inspiration

Virginia Woolf: Introductions to the Major Works

For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming + James Bond

The Alice Behind Wonderland

The Assassin's Cloak

The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)

Once Upon a Tome: The misadventures of a rare bookseller

Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

Abominations: A Sunday Times Book of the Year from the cultural iconoclast and award-winning author of We Need To Talk About Kevin

Selected Writings. Edited with an Introduction and Notes By Patrick Cruttwell.

Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton

Point To Point Navigation: A Memoir

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia

Eliot's New Life

The Wife of Bath: A Biography

A Life of My Own

Selected Essays and Dialogues (World's Classics)
