Freya Johnston

She Bamboozled Lord Byron

Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit

By Antonia Fraser

A N Wilson

A Biographer In Love

Trollope

By Victoria Glendinning

Duncan Wu

Piecing it All Together

Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

By Kathryn Harkup

In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

By Fiona Sampson

A N Wilson

Genius in Either Role

Thackeray

By D J Taylor

Nicholas Roe

Last Words

Deaths of the Poets

By Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts

Rosemary Stoyle

Anorexic Emily

Emily Brontë: A Chainless Soul

By Katherine Frank

John Bayley

Boz’s Little Bit

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

By Claire Tomalin

Janet Barron

Same Mephitic Odours

The Letters of Edith Wharton

By RWB Lewis & Nancy Lewis

Teresa Waugh

Lovable Black Prince

Baudelaire

By Claude Pichois (Translated by Graham Robb)

Diana Athill

Life with a Genius Junkie

The Bondage of Love: A Life of Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By Molly Lefebure

Catherine Peters

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian of Letters

By Leslie Mitchell

Frances Spalding

Gay At Heart

Anny: A Life of Anne Isabella Thackery Ritchie

By Henrietta Garnett

Gillian Tindall

Don’s Delight

The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Henrietta Garnett

What Katey May Have Done

Katey: The Artist Daughter of Charles Dickens

By Lucinda Hawksley

Paul Johnson

The Frozen Deep

Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing

By Michael Slater

Allan Massie

A Man For A’ That

The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography

By Robert Crawford

Diana Athill

Astonishing Intimacy

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth

By Frances Wilson

Allan Massie

Mummy Dearest

Madame Proust: A Biography

By Evelyne Bloch-Dano (Translated by Alice Kaplan)