Arabella Byrne

Letting Go of the Pram

The Abandoners: Of Mothers and Monsters

By Begoña Gómez Urzaiz (Translated from Spanish by Lizzie Davis)

Douglas Field

I Am Not Your Hashtag

On James Baldwin’s centenary

Grub Smith

Catalogue of Sin

Spectator Low Life: The Final Years

By Jeremy Clarke

Valentine Cunningham

A Singular Man

Christopher Isherwood Inside Out

By Kathleen Bucknell

Rosa Lyster

Two Sides to the Story

The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction

By Lee Gutkind

Nigel Andrew

Fake It Till You Make It

The Book Forger: The True Story of a Literary Crime That Fooled the World

By Joseph Hone

Adrian Tinniswood

Just My Type

The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives

By Adam Smyth

Norma Clarke

The Pen & the Handkerchief

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

By Hilary Mantel

Sara Lodge

Ladies in Lemon

Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives

By Jad Adams

David Wheatley

Burdens of a Nobel Laureate

The Letters of Seamus Heaney

By Christopher Reid (ed)

Richard Davenport-Hines

His Best Book was His Address Book

The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing

By Thomas Harding

Allan Massie

How Late It Was

Blasted with Antiquity: Old Age and the Consolations of Literature

By David Ellis

Dennis Duncan

The Meaning of an Apple-Green Citroën

Georges Perec at the Café de la Mairie

Joanna Kavenna

A Room is Not Enough

A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

By Joanna Biggs