Nicholas Murray

Rare Case of a Poet who Doubted His Own Genius

A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold

By Ian Hamilton

Frances Spalding

A Woman Sitting Alone

Rosamond Lehmann: A Life

By Selina Hastings

Sylvia Clayton

Blake’s Progress

Witness against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law

By E P Thompson

Nikolai Tolstoy

A Genial Man Despite His Humble Origins

Anton Chekhov: A Life

By Donald Rayfield

Philip Thody

Wodehouse and the Critics

P. G. Wodehouse, An Illustrated Biography

By Joseph Connolly

Paul Taylor

Before He Went to Live on the Mountain Top

Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years

By Brian Boyd

Auberon Waugh

All We Need

Cyril Connolly: A Life

By Jeremy Lewis

Philip Hensher

Nothing Is Explained

Joseph Conrad: A Biography

By Jeffrey Meyers

Michael Hamburger

Artistic Monomania

Rilke: A Life

By Wolfgang Leppmann (Translated by Russell M Stockman)

Craig Raine

Lost Threads and Common Pursuits

Love and Exile

By Isaac Bashevis Singer

John Stokes

Dead Beats

Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac

By Gerald Nicosia

The Beats: An Anthology of 'Beat' Writing

By Park Honan (Ed)

Donald Rayfield

Farmer, Novelist, Guru, Ascetic

Tolstoy: A Russian Life

By Rosamund Bartlett

John Stubbs

Coy Poet

Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon

By Nigel Smith

Paul Johnson

The Frozen Deep

Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing

By Michael Slater

William St Clair

The Spirit of His Age

William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man

By Duncan Wu

Katherine Duncan-Jones

As You Like Him

Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

By Jonathan Bate

Paul Johnson

On New Grub Street

George Gissing: A Life

By Paul Delany