Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Rupert Brooke: A Biography

By Christopher Hassall

Written Lives

By Javier Marias, Margaret Jull Costa

Gerald: A Portrait

By Daphne Du Maurier

Paula: Paula

By Isabel Allende

Diplomatic Baggage

By Brigid Keenan

The Sum of Our Days

By Isabel Allende

The Life of Walter Scott: A Critical Biography

By John Sutherland

The Outsider

By Frederick Forsyth

The Waste Land and Other Writings

By T.S. Eliot, Mary Karr

The Girl from Leam Lane: The Life and Writing of Catherine Cookson

By Piers Dudgeon

The Bondage of Love: A Life of Mrs. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By Lefebure, Molly

All My Yesterdays: An Autobiography

By Cecil Lewis

Robert Graves: v. 1: The Assault Heroic, 1895-1926

By Richard Perceval Graves

Prince Charming: a Memoir

By Christopher Logue

Pushkin: The Man and His Age

By Robin Edmonds

High Flight: The Life and Poetry of Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee

Teacher Man

By McCourt, Frank

My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times: An Autobiography

By Harold Evans

Deep Magic, Dragons and Talking Mice: How Reading C.S. Lewis Can Change Your Life

By Dr Alister E McGrath

Stevie, a Biography of Stevie Smith

By Associate Professor of English Jack Barbera (University of Mississippi), Professor of English William McBrien (Hofstra University)

The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

By William Shakespeare

My Russian Grandmother And Her American Vacuum Cleaner

By Meir Shalev

The Durrells of Corfu

By Michael Haag

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey

Going Solo

By Dahl, Roald, Blake, Quentin

Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working class Scotland

By Deborah Orr

William Shakespeare: A Life

By Garry O'Connor

Alphonse de Lamartine: A Political Biography

By William Fortesque

I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir

By Rafi Zabor

The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson's Guide to Life

By Henry Hitchings