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Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Basil Street Blues and Mosaic

Grub Street Irregular

A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton

The Genius of Shakespeare

Ceaseless Turmoil: Diaries 1988-1992

Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950

Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett

No Boys Play Here: A Story of Shakespeare and My Family's Missing Men

Every Third Thought: On life, death and the endgame

Lytton Strachey: The New Biography

The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestsellers

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

Michael Foot - A Life

Eden Renewed: Public and Private Life of John Milton

Leonard Woolf: A Biography

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym

A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits

Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

Furious Interiors: R.S.Thomas, God and Wales

Brian Friel: Essays, Diaries, Interviews: 1964-1999: Essays and Interviews

Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950

William Blake vs the World

Anna of all the Russias: The Life of a Poet under Stalin

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho (Penguin Classics)

Maximes

In My Own Time: Thoughts and Afterthoughts

Nevada Days

A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist
