Bevis Hillier

Do Not Despise the Dilettante

William Beckford: Composing For Mozart

By Timothy Mowl

Sebastian Faulks

First Attempt

Siegfried Sassoon: The Making Of A War Poet

By Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Bryan Appleyard

Is He A Genius?

Big Jim: The Life And Work of James Stirling

By Mark Girouard

Auberon Waugh

Nobody Loves Them, Nobody Cares

Jonathan Keates

Getting Nearer

Johannes Brahms: A Biography

By Jan Swafford

Mick Brown

New Literary Form Was Not Writing but Typing

Jack Kerouac: King of The Beats - A Portrait

By Barry Miles

Nicholas Murray

Vexed His Readers

The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style

By Tom Paulin

Norman Moss

Perils of Candour

Too True

By Blake Morrison

Victoria Glendinning

A True Heroine of Her Time

Fanny Burney: Her Life

By Kate Chisholm

Kathryn Hughes

What Life Held for a Clergyman’s Daughter

A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals and Letters of Agnes Porter

By Joanna Martin (ed)

Brian Phillips

When Neutrality Becomes a Cause for Scandal

Dunant’s Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross

By Caroline Moorehead