books by subject
Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

An Autobiography

Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

The Sappho Companion

Keats

The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake

To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays

Tennyson

The First Poets

W. B. Yeats

Whitman the Political Poet

In the Dorian Mode: Life of John Gray, 1866-1934

The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations

The Sailor in the Wardrobe

Emily Bronte

Richard III: A Sourcebook

Autobiographies: v. 2

The Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood

Elizabeth: Eighty Glorious Years

The Dyer's Hand

The Life of Walter De La Mare

Manuel Puig and the Spiderwoman: His Life and Fiction

Treasure Islands: Sailing the South Seas in the Wake of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson

The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome

Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation

Willie Morris: An Exhaustive Annotated Bibliography and a Biography

Journal of a Solitude

Gore Vidal

Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006
