Sarah Watling

Speaking Volumes

Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers

By Emma Smith

Lucy Lethbridge

Life Lessons from the Sinful Greek Girl

Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in My Present and in the Writings of the Past

By Elizabeth Boyle

Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room

By Jonathan Bate

Martha Rampton

Wave Formations

Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1950–2020

By Sandra M Gilbert and Susan Gubar

Norma Clarke

Young at Heart

Jane Austen, Early and Late

By Freya Johnston

Roberta Klimt

Paradise Reimagined

Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton

By Joe Moshenska

Matt Seaton

Watch the Writers

Culture and Imperialism

By Edward W Said

Salley Vickers

It Gets Better with Age

The Midlife Mind: Literature and the Art of Ageing

By Ben Hutchinson

Patricia T O'Conner

Good Gad!

Joanna Kavenna

Writers on the Storm

Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology

By Alice Oswald & Paul Keegan (edd)

Seamus Perry

He Knew All of Shakespeare by Heart

Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind over a Universe of Death

By Harold Bloom

Gill Partington

Written in Blood

The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History

By Edward Brooke-Hitching

David Mikics

The Star-Spangled Bard

Shakespeare in a Divided America

By James Shapiro

Frank McLynn

Eastern Sage

Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man

By Andrew Robinson and Krishna Dutta

David Utterson

Privacy Was an Obsession

Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography

By Gary Fountain and Peter Brazeau

David Profumo

The Magic Wheel