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

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

Peter Washington

Of Her Darker Purposes

Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life

By Julia Briggs

John Stubbs

Politics & Poetry

Thomas Wyatt: The Heart’s Forest

By Susan Brigden

Jay Parini

The Inheritance of Isabel Archer

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

By Michael Gorra

John Sutherland

No Smoke without Fire?

The Great Charles Dickens Scandal

By Michael Slater

Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor

By Ruth Richardson