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

William Palmer

Guernsey’s Finest

Genius Friend: G B Edwards and The Book of Ebenezer Le Page

By Edward Chaney

A N Wilson

He Dared to Tell Them their History, Now Forgotten

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life

By D M Thomas

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Novel Arguments

The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World

By William Egginton

Janet Barron

Red in Banker’s Bed

Christina Stead, A Life of Letters

By Chris Williams

Jay Parini

Getting into Character

Bellow’s People: How Saul Bellow Made Life into Art

By David Mikics

Michael Dobson

Such a Darling When One Knew Him Well

William Shakespeare: A Life

By Garry O’Connor

Rosemary Stoyle

Anorexic Emily

Emily Brontë: A Chainless Soul

By Katherine Frank

Paul Taylor

Before He Went to Live on the Mountain Top

Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years

By Brian Boyd

John Bayley

Boz’s Little Bit

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

By Claire Tomalin

Nigel Andrew

Lolita’s Lepidopterist

Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art

By Stephen H Blackwell & Kurt Johnson (edd)

Jim Halt

Reasons to be Cheerful

The Pursuit of Happiness

By Peter Quennell

Wendy Brandmark

He Delivered a Pair of Old Shoes to James Joyce

The Letters of T S Eliot: Volume I 1898-1922

By Valerie Eliot (Ed)

Eliot’s New Life

By Lyndall Gordon