Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Chagrin d'école

By Pennac, Daniel

Richard Brinsley Sheridan: A Life

By Kelly, Linda

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By Alison Bechdel, Bechdel, Alison

Memory Maps

By St. Aubin de Teran, Lisa

Poets (Favourite)

By Jones, Kate

Sometimes the Magic Works

By Brooks, Terry

Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes

By Mount, Ferdinand

I Saw Ramallah

By Barghouti, Mourid, Said, Edward, Soueif, Ahdaf

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels

By Pamuk, Orhan, Dikbas, Nazim

Chaucer's Poetry: An Anthology for the Modern Reader

By Donaldson

The Perfect Stranger (Lives & letters)

By P. J. Kavanagh

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

By Trethewey, Natasha

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Perennial Classics)

By Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich

Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing

By Clare, Horatio

Such Stuff: A Story-maker's Inspiration

By Morpurgo, Sir Michael, Foreman, Michael

Granta 161: Sister, Brother

By Rausing, Sigrid

Poetry and Prose (Golden Age of Spiritual Writing): 11

By Thomas Traherne, Denise Inge

Prometheus: The Life of Balzac

By Maurois, Andre

Set Me On Fire: A Poem For Every Feeling

By Risbridger, Ella

Pushkin’s Button

By Vitale, Serena, Goldstein, Ann

Have Knife, Will Travel: Poems from a surgeon on cancer, cake and crossing continents

By Bhattacharya, Satya

One Day I Will Write About This Place

By Wainaina, Binyavanga

Lunch with the FT: 52 Classic Interviews

By Barber, Lionel

The Summing Up

By Maugham, W. Somerset

Pocket Facts: Space Travel

Long Life: Memoirs

By Nicolson MBE, Nigel

The Music Room

By Fiennes, WILLIAM

The Secret Life Of Oscar Wilde

By Mckenna, Neil

Point To Point Navigation: A Memoir

By Vidal, Gore

Kerouac: A Biography

By Charters, Ann