Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Fault Lines

By David Pryce-Jones

The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

By Nicolson, Adam

Simone de Beauvoir: A Beginner's Guide

By Alison Holland

Water at the Roots: Poems and Insights of a Visionary Farmer

By Philip Britts, David Kline, Jennifer Harries

Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

By Jenny Uglow

Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey

By Frances Wilson

Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph

By Edgar Johnson

Dickens's Women: His Great Expectations

By Anne Isba

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham

By Hastings, Selina

Storyteller - The Life of Roald Dahl

By Sturrock, Donald

Wodehouse: A Life

By Robert McCrum

E. M. Forster: A New Life

By Wendy Moffat

Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

By Nino Strachey

Zazie in the Metro

By Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright

Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard

By Richard Greene

John Masefield

By Muriel Spark