The groundbreaking biography of Booker Prize-winning novelist and art historian Anita Brookner, f...

As readerswe seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timelyunu...

This selection of Bowen's non-fictional writings includes her wonderfully funnyprecise recollecti...

This comprehensive and welcoming edition draws on the whole of Stevie Smith's output in poetry, p...

As the Pargiters, a middle-class English family, move from the oppressive confines of the Victori...

This anthology follows the highly successful Oxford Poets anthologies of 2000 and 2001 and introd...

Biography is one of the most popular, best-selling, and widely-read of literary genres. But why d...

Traces the life of the American novelist from her childhood in the newly settled prairies of Nebr...

'I do not know that one ought to be surprised at anything.'The Duke of Omnium is overwhelmed by t...

From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and ...

Shot through with Stoppard's voice, and illuminating all his plays, Lee's gripping narrative draw...

'A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Wo...