Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Chagrin d'ecole (Folio)

By Pennac, Daniel

Billy

By Stephenson, Pamela

A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

By Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway, Sean Hemingway

Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself

By Ann Wroe

The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination

By Richard Mabey

Dog Years: A Memoir

By Mark Doty

Backing into the Limelight: The Biography of Alan Bennett

By Alexander Games

Screaming with Joy: The Life of Allen Ginsberg

By Graham Caveney

Georges Simenon

By David Carter

The Girl From Aleppo: Nujeen’s Escape From War to Freedom

By Mustafa, Nujeen, Lamb, Christina

The Measure of My Powers: A Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris

By Jackie Kay Ellis

An Autobiography: 25th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

By Agatha Christie

An Autobiography: 25th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

By Agatha Christie

Blackout: Remembering the things I drank to forget

By Hepola, Sarah

John Le Carre: The Biography

By Adam Sisman

James Joyce

By Frank Startup

The Joyce We Knew: Memoirs of Joyce

By Ulick O'Connor

A.A. Milne: His Life

By Ann Thwaite

W. B. Yeats, A Life I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914

By R. F. Foster (Carroll Professor of Irish History, Carroll Professor of Irish History, Hertford College, Oxford)

A House in Flanders

By Sir Michael Jenkins

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan

By Arthur Waley, Dennis Washburn

Poets In A Landscape

By Gilbert Highet

Time to Stand and Stare: A Life of W.H. Davies with Selected Poems

By Barbara Hardy

Iris Murdoch: A Life: The Authorized Biography

By Peter J. Conradi

The Bees

By Carol Ann Duffy, DBE

The Heart's Granary: Poetry and Prose from 50 Years of Enitharmon Press

By Lawrence Sail

Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia

By Tracey Thorn

The Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory

By Deborah Alun-Jones

Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives

By John Sutherland

Burning the Days

By James Salter