books by subject
Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Jane Austen's Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England

The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness: A Memoir of an Adolescence

Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

Spike: An Intimate Memoir

Mermaid Singing

To The One I Love The Best

The American Sublime

Shakespeare: Life, Works, Treasures

42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams (No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller)

Return to Paris: A Memoir with Recipes

Star Factory

Words and Worlds: From Autobiography to Zippers

The Bronte Myth

The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street

Shakespeare: A Life

Rupert Brooke: His Life and His Legend

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Tennyson

Letters: v.2: 1952-84

Last Words

Where Did it All Go Right?

The Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh: Story of A.A.Milne and His Writing for Children

Harriet Tubman

Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words

The Angel of Charleston: Grace Higgens, Housekeeper to the Bloomsbury Set, 1920-1970

Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet

A Preface to Wilfred Owen (Preface Books)

An Introduction to Pope

The Life and Times of Chaucer
