Biography: Literary

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

Enlightening, moving SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploratio...

A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mi...

The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book pu...

So wise and so well done. It made me wish it were much longer than it is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Fr...

Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieS...

The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book pu...

Kurt Wolff (1887-1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself an...

The Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and ...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year A Ti...

James Lees-Milne (1908-97) - known to friends as Jim - is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England's greatest archi...