Biography: Literary

'Sleepless has changed how I feel about sleep . . . I was captivated' The Times, Book of the Week'This book will inspire you to get up, light a...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen never goes out of style.Jane Austen's much-loved novels vividly describe 19th-century socie...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, is one of the most famous writers in American (and world) literature. Twain h...

'He was not of an age, but for all time.' (Shakespeare's contemporary Ben Jonson) No writer, before or since, has matched Shakespeare in terms of i...

The Jane Austen Treasury is a delightful collection of facts and insights into the life and times of the great novelist and the attitudes and custo...

'This is the biography - truthful, sympathetic and thorough - that Coward deserves'DAILY TELEGRAPHThe voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in it...

Flamboyant and witty, Oscar Wilde was famous for being famous. The toast of late-nineteenth London society, he once boasted he could speak spontane...

Presented here in English translation are letters selected for publication by the poet himself, shortly before his death, from his wide corresponde...

Poet and anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus recorded a series of tapes in the 1970s which have been edited and annotated by Bernth Lindfors to g...

Poet and anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus recorded a series of tapes in the 1970s which have been edited and annotated by Bernth Lindfors to g...

This book is the first biography of Nina Berberova. Based on years of archival research, the author deciphers many of the conspicuous omissions (, ...

A meditation on the themes of separation and silence, The Summer of the Elder Tree was Marie Chaix's first book to appear in fourteen years, and de...

'Sleepless has changed how I feel about sleep . . . I was captivated' The Times, Book of the Week'This book will inspire you to get up, light a...

** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023**** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and...

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellec...

A tender memoir of the challenges of bereavement ... I closed this book wishing Id met her but feeling that I almost had Daily Telegraph ________...

While so many literary artists of earlier eras fall away, F. Scott Fitzgerald retains a hold on us, both through his work and through his life. The...

Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense This is the news from the domestic...