Biography: Literary

Beatrix Potter's Scotland gives insight into the life of one of the best-loved writers in Britain. Based around Potter's own journal, the book goes...

The hidden controversy and heartbreak behind Stevensons Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is revealed in this fascinating work of literary dete...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'Matthew Dennison skilfully covers the facts, producing a vivid impression of this strange, shy, awkward figure. The resu...

Although his hilariously entertaining stories have touched the hearts of generations of children, there was much more to beloved author Roald Dahl ...

A powerful biography of the internationally renowned writer who created one of the most enduring characters in childrens literature, Pippi Longstoc...

THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017Over a career spanning nearly fifty years Edward Garnett editor, critic and publishers reader wo...

John Buchans name is known across the world for The Thirty-Nine Steps. In the past one hundred years the classic thriller has never been out of pri...

In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. Candid and revelatory, Aftermath chronicles the perilous journey as the ...

If you didn't know whether to risk doing something, what's the worst that could happen? 'So they call you pisher!'In this humorous and moving memoi...

Winner of the Atlantic Book Awards 2017 Margaret and John Savage First Book AwardWinner of the East Coast Literary Awards 2017 Evelyn Richardson No...

Charles Dickens is the definitive illustrated guide to the man and his works with images of documents from Dickens' personal archive written by one...

Writer, countrywoman, Fascist, Nazi, Communist, duchess. Born in that order, they were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica ...

Isaiah Berlin was one of the great public intellectuals of his time. A magnetic speaker and beacon of liberal philosophy, he gained first-hand expe...

Monk's House in Sussex is the former home of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It was bought by them in 1919 as a country retreat, somewhere they came to...