Nigel Andrew

Bestseller Ho!

Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers Built a Publishing Powerhouse

By Sarah Harkness

Richard Davenport-Hines

His Best Book was His Address Book

The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing

By Thomas Harding

Freya Johnston

Radical Yet Reasonable

Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age

By Daisy Hay

Nicky Haslam

Park Avenue Prince

Condé Nast: The Man and His Empire

By Susan Ronald

Jeremy Lewis

Saint Victor

Victor Gollancz: A Biography

By Ruth Dudley Edwards

Henrietta Garnett

An Eye for Greatness

The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett

By Helen Smith

Catherine Peters

He Stoops to Conquer

Brothers of the Quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street

By Norma Clarke

Jeremy Lewis

An Affair to Misremember

Carole Angier

Age-Banding Biography

William St Clair

The Spirit of His Age

William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man

By Duncan Wu

Peter Washington

Literary Legacies

The Seven Lives of John Murray: The Story of a Publishing Dynasty

By Humphrey Carpenter

Sarah Wise

On the Slab

The Making of Mr Gray’s Anatomy: Bodies, Books, Fortune, Fame

By Ruth Richardson

Diana Athill

Man On A Mission

Penguin Special: The Life and Times of Allen Lane

By Jeremy Lewis

Phil Baker

How to Sell Paper

Fifty Years in the Fiction Factory: The Working Life of Herbert Allingham

By Julia Jones