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A Woman Sitting Alone

Rosamond Lehmann: A Life

By Selina Hastings

Victoria Glendinning

Nursery School of Writers

British Writers of the Thirties

By Valentine Cunningham

Tim Heald

Lovely Jim

The Last Englishman: The Life of J L Carr

By Byron Rogers

Raleigh Trevelyan

The Man & the Beard

William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies

By John Carey

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

A C Grayling

Passion & Possibility

Shakespeare the Thinker

By A D Nuttall

Shakespeare Revealed: A Biography

By René Weis

Colin Burrow

Prince of Poets

Edmund Spenser: A Life

By Andrew Hadfield

Peter Washington

Of Her Darker Purposes

Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life

By Julia Briggs

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