A N Wilson

A Biographer In Love

Trollope

By Victoria Glendinning

Benjamin Ivry

An Uncommon Life

Flaubert

By Michel Winock (Translated by Nicholas Elliott)

A N Wilson

Gray’s Elegy

In the Dorian Mode: A Life of John Gray: 1866–1934

By Brocard Sewell

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

Teresa Waugh

Lovable Black Prince

Baudelaire

By Claude Pichois (Translated by Graham Robb)

Miranda Seymour

The Real Donna Inez

Lady Byron and Her Daughters

By Julia Markus

Donald Rayfield

More Peter than Judas

Tolstoy’s False Disciple: The Untold Story of Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Chertkov

By Alexandra Popoff

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

Piers Brendon

Indian Inspiration

Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling

By Charles Allen

Thomas Hodgkinson

Affair To Remember

Alfred Douglas: A Poet’s Life and His Finest Work

By Caspar Wintermans

Frances Wilson

Hardly Human

Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle

By Janet Todd

Being Shelley: The Poet’s Search for Himself

By Ann Wroe

Irving Wardle

Mr Julie

Strindberg: A Life

By Sue Prideaux

Henrietta Garnett

Arbitrators of the Mind

The Strachey Family

By Barbara Caine

Jay Parini

The Inheritance of Isabel Archer

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

By Michael Gorra

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