books by subject
Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

The Waste Land and Other Writings

The Girl from Leam Lane: The Life and Writing of Catherine Cookson

The Bondage of Love: A Life of Mrs. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All My Yesterdays: An Autobiography

Robert Graves: v. 1: The Assault Heroic, 1895-1926

Prince Charming: a Memoir

Pushkin: The Man and His Age

High Flight: The Life and Poetry of Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee

Teacher Man

My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times: An Autobiography

Deep Magic, Dragons and Talking Mice: How Reading C.S. Lewis Can Change Your Life

Stevie, a Biography of Stevie Smith

The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

My Russian Grandmother And Her American Vacuum Cleaner

The Durrells of Corfu

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Going Solo

Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working class Scotland

William Shakespeare: A Life

Alphonse de Lamartine: A Political Biography

I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir

The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson's Guide to Life

Travels with Charley in Search of America

Running in the Family

Ezra Pound and His World

Oscar Wilde

What Was Shakespeare Really Like?

Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood

Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
