Ruth Padel

Why did the Bitch Have to Leave Him?

The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker

By Robert Fraser

Humphrey Carpenter

It had to be Coaxed Out of him

Tolkien: A Biography

By Michael White

Hugo Vickers

She Liked to Dance Naked on Beaches

Isadora: The Sensational Life Of Isadora Duncan

By Peter Kurth

Kathryn Hughes

Diana Athill at Home

Adam LeBor

The Decline and Fall of a Friendship

Embers

By Sándor Márai (translated by Carol Brown Janeway)

John Dugdale

Chip, Gary and Denise

The Corrections

By Jonathan Franzen