Robert Nye

Too Many Pimples?

Philip Sidney: A Double Life

By Alan Stewart

Max Egremont

He Left No Signs When He Sank

Kitchener: Saviour of the Realm

By John Pollock

Paul Johnson

Gombrich For Ever

Sight and Insight: Essays on Art and Culture in Honour of E H Gombrich at 85

By John Onians

Paul Hamilton

Reading The Self

Using Biography

By William Empson

The Art of Autobiography in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century England

By A O J Cockshut

Edwina Currie

Grantham Beauty had no Time for other Women

June Rose

Making The Best of It

Toulous-Lautrec and the Fin de Siecle

By David Sweetman

Frank McLynn

A Monster of Egotism too Easily Forgiven

Hannah Arendt – Martin Heidegger

By Elzbieta Ettinger

Francis Wyndham

Sweet And Selfless

The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell

By Hilary Spurling

Jad Adams

Not Your Average Working-Class Heroine

Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution

By Selina Todd

Alan Judd

Past Master

Patrick O’Brian: A Very Private Life

By Nikolai Tolstoy

Vaudine England

Tiger Wives

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

By Jung Chang

Piers Brendon

He Did Business in Great Waters

The Mountbattens

By Andrew Lownie

Adrian Nathan West

Freedom Regained

Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

By Józef Czapski (Translated by Eric Karpeles)

Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski

By Eric Karpeles

Allan Massie

An Old-fashioned Kind of Spy

Master of Deception: The Wartime Adventures of Peter Fleming

By Alan Ogden

Munro Price

She Wasn’t Just in It for the Dresses

Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen

By John Hardman

Francis Wheen

Licentious Prude, Written in Wind and Water

Rupert Murdoch: Ringmaster of the Information Circus

By William Shawcross

Nick Hornby

Over-Refined Funk

Living in America - The Soul Saga of James Brown

By Cynthia Rose