books by subject
Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

James Joyce

The Joyce We Knew: Memoirs of Joyce

A.A. Milne: His Life

W. B. Yeats, A Life I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914

A House in Flanders

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan

Poets In A Landscape

Time to Stand and Stare: A Life of W.H. Davies with Selected Poems

Iris Murdoch: A Life: The Authorized Biography

The Bees

The Heart's Granary: Poetry and Prose from 50 Years of Enitharmon Press

Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia

The Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory

Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives

Burning the Days

BoyhoodA Memoir

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
