Claire Harman

Great Affectations

Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller

By Peter Conrad

Claudia FitzHerbert

It Was a Bleak Time

The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens and the World

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Lucy Lethbridge

Great Oscillations

The Mystery of Charles Dickens

By A N Wilson

Paul Johnson

A Thunderous Recipe for Salad Dressing

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Vol 2, 1868-70

By Graham Storey (ed)

Charles Dickens

By Jane Smiley

John Bayley

Boz’s Little Bit

The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens

By Claire Tomalin

Humphrey Carpenter

The Elusive Charles Dickens

Dickens: Interviews and Recollections

By Philip Colins (ed)

John Bayley

Reader, I Felt it …

Forms of Feeling in Victorian Literature

By Barbara Hardy

Paul Johnson

Boz’s Buddy

Phiz: The Man Who Drew Dickens

By Valerie Brown Lester

Paul Johnson

The Frozen Deep

Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing

By Michael Slater

Catherine Peters

Amuthement Arcade

The Dickens Dictionary: An A–Z of England’s Greatest Novelist

By John Sutherland

Charles Dickens and ‘Boz’: The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author

By Robert L Patten

Charles Dickens’s Networks: Public Transport and the Novel

By Jonathan H Grossman

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

Simon Heffer

In Fagin’s Footsteps

The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London

By Judith Flanders