books by subject
Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights
These Bodies of Water: A Personal History of the British Empire in the Middle East
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
One Pair of Feet: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens ... she's blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe
Edith Wharton and the French Riviera
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Kafka
Life Is a Joke: A Writer's Memoir
The Village Book
Ex Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
Land of Evening
Train to Budapest
Swedish Reflections: From Beowulf to Bergman
The Phoenix Land
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon
Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author
Snakes and Ladders
Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (the Country Nurse Series, Book One)
Afloat: A Memoir
The Mirador
Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy
The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth
Wordsworth: A Life
Bernard Shaw: v. 2: Pursuit of Power, 1898-1918
Lure of Fantasy, The:Bernard Shaw Volume III 1918-1950: Lure of Fantasy, 1918-50 v. 3
Stieg Larsson - the Man Who Left Too Soon: The Biography
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats - A Portrait
