books by subject
Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

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

The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

Wilfred Owen: A New Biography

The Bloomsbury Group: A Collection of Memoirs and Commentary

Scotland: The Story of a Nation

How To Be a Medieval Woman

Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents

NOUVELLES DRAMATURGIES AFRICAINES

I Never Said Goodbye: A Mother's Memoir of Love and Brutal Loss Inside Saddam's Regime

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

Sol Plaatje: A life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876-1932

You Must Set Forth at Dawn: a Memoir

Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama: "Not Only a Playwright But a Company". The Trinidad Theatre Workshop 1959-1993

Charles Dickens
