Jad Adams

Not Your Average Working-Class Heroine

Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution

By Selina Todd

Marie Wells

First Among Realists

Henrik Ibsen: The Man and the Mask

By Ivo de Figueiredo (Translated by Robert Ferguson)

Jad Adams

Wilde at Heart

Oscar: A Life

By Matthew Sturgis

Ned Sherrin

Should Carry a Health Warning

Should Carry a Health Warning

By Philip Hoare

John Lahr

Tramp, Gentleman & Poet

Chaplin: His Life and Art

By David Robinson

Christopher Bray

‘Sober people, they’re not for me’

Peter O’Toole: The Definitive Biography

By Robert Sellers

Sheridan Morley

Beyond Our Ken

Kenneth Tynan: A Life

By Dominic Shellard

Frank McLynn

He’s Tall, He’s Rangy

Secret Dreams: The Biography of Michael Redgrave

By Alan Strachan

Rupert Christiansen

Women of Noble Mien

Sybil Thorndike: A Star of Life

By Jonathan Croall

Louis Barfe

Jolly Good Fun

Bounder! The Biography of Terry-Thomas

By Graham McCann

Alastair Sim: The Star of Scrooge and the Belles of St Trinian's

By Mark Simpson

Rupert Christiansen

Luvvie Lives

A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families

By Michael Holroyd

Katherine Duncan-Jones

As You Like Him

Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

By Jonathan Bate

Mick Brown

Friends of Dorothy

My Judy Garland Life

By Susie Boyt

Francis King

The Constant Philanderer

A Voyage Round John Mortimer

By Valerie Grove

Henrietta Garnett

Acting the Part

Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life

By Deirdre David