Michael Waterhouse

One of Literature’s Greatest Liars

Lord Byron’s Jackal: A Life of Edward John Trelawny

By David Crane

Ian Sansom

A Life in Letters

The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale

By James Atlas

Peter Washington

He was Moral, but Was He Great?

The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett

By John Calder

How it was: A Memoir of Samuel Beckett

By Anne Atik

Andrew Lycett

No More Respected and More Read than Johnson

Boswell's Presumptuous Task

By Adam Sisman

Frank McLynn

He was Happy to Be Dissected Mercilessly

Bellow: A Biography

By James Atlas

Frederic Raphael

Not a Great Writer

Lawrence Durrell: A Biography

By Ian S MacNiven

Benjamin Ivry

An Uncommon Life

Flaubert

By Michel Winock (Translated by Nicholas Elliott)

Seamus Perry

Thrill of the Chase

This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer

By Richard Holmes

A N Wilson

Gray’s Elegy

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

By Brocard Sewell

Philip Thody

Wodehouse and the Critics

P. G. Wodehouse, An Illustrated Biography

By Joseph Connolly

Michael Dobson

Such a Darling When One Knew Him Well

William Shakespeare: A Life

By Garry O’Connor

Rosemary Stoyle

Anorexic Emily

Emily Brontë: A Chainless Soul

By Katherine Frank

Paul Taylor

Before He Went to Live on the Mountain Top

Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years

By Brian Boyd

John Bayley

Boz’s Little Bit

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

By Claire Tomalin

Jim Holt

Reasons to be Cheerful

The Pursuit of Happiness

By Peter Quennell

Wendy Brandmark

He Delivered a Pair of Old Shoes to James Joyce

The Letters of T S Eliot: Volume I 1898-1922

By Valerie Eliot (Ed)

Eliot’s New Life

By Lyndall Gordon

Teresa Waugh

Lovable Black Prince

Baudelaire

By Claude Pichois (Translated by Graham Robb)