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

Kathryn Hughes

Hasty Scrawls

Harriet Martineau, Selected Letters

By Valerie Sanders (ed)

Paul Johnson

The Frozen Deep

Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing

By Michael Slater

Allan Massie

Odd Cove

Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes

By Andrew Lycett

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

By Daniel Stashower, Jon Lellenberg and Charles Foley

Allan Massie

Smoking Interrupted Only for Kissing and Coughing

Robert Louis Stevenson

By Claire Harman

Adam Sisman

He Lived Too Long

Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt

By Nicholas Roe

The Wit in the Dungeon: Leigh Hunt and His Circle

By Anthony Holden

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

John Sutherland

Rowed to Success

Below the Fairy City: A Life of Jerome K Jerome

By Carolyn W de la L Oulton