Frances Spalding

A Woman Sitting Alone

Rosamond Lehmann: A Life

By Selina Hastings

Philip Oakes

Local Hero

Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia: The Bizarre Life of Writer, Actor, Soho Dandy Julian Maclaren-Ross

By Paul Willetts

Paul Johnson

The Frozen Deep

Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing

By Michael Slater

Paul Johnson

Born to Believe

Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC, 1874–1908

By William Oddie

William St Clair

The Spirit of His Age

William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man

By Duncan Wu

Paul Johnson

Scribble, Scribble

Samuel Johnson: A Biography

By Peter Martin

Katherine Duncan-Jones

As You Like Him

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

By Jonathan Bate

Allan Massie

Living for Literature

The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V S Naipaul

By Patrick French

Diana Athill

Astonishing Intimacy

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth

By Frances Wilson

Paul Johnson

On New Grub Street

George Gissing: A Life

By Paul Delany

Francis King

The Constant Philanderer

A Voyage Round John Mortimer

By Valerie Grove

Peter Washington

The Birth of Sredni Vashtar

The Unbearable Saki: The Work of H H Munro

By Sandie Byrne

John Gray

The Dorset Proust

Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys

By Morine Krissdóttir

Porius

By John Cowper Powys

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

Selina O’Grady

A Life of Experiment

Mary Wollstonecraft: A New Genus

By Lyndall Gordon

Henrietta Garnett

Arbitrators of the Mind

The Strachey Family

By Barbara Caine