Tolkien

Humphrey Carpenter, Pierre Alien

1977 ★ 4.2

Moments of being

Virginia Woolf

1976 ★ 3.7

A Prison Diary

FF 8282, Jeffrey Archer

2002

Moab Is My Washpot

Stephen Fry

1997 ★ 3.4

Barbara Cartland

Henry Cloud, H. Cloud

1981

Jane Austen

Claire Tomalin

1997 ★ 3.3

Dickens

Peter Ackroyd

1990

A Sort of Life

Graham Greene

1971

Smile Please

Jean Rhys

1979

The life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

John Dickson Carr

1949

Experience

Martin Amis

2000

A very private eye

Barbara Pym

1984

Virginia Woolf

Hermione Lee

1997

The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories

Daphne du Maurier

1981

Jeffrey Archer

Michael Crick

1995

Ways of escape

Graham Greene

1980

Graham Greene

Graham Greene

1994

Jane Austen

Carol Shields

2001

Three houses

Angela Mackail Thirkell

1986

Time to Dance, No Time to Weep

Rumer Godden

1987

The Brontës

Juliet Barker

1995

Memoir of Jane Austen, by her nephew

James Edward Austen-Leigh, George Cavendish, Leigh James et al.

1963

Violet to Vita

Mitchell A. Leaska, Violet Keppel Trefusis

1989

Thackeray

Anthony Trollope

1879

I seek the miraculous

Barbara Cartland

1978

Virginia Woolf

Julia Briggs

2005

A House With Four Rooms

Rumer Godden

1989

The Private World of Georgette Heyer

Jane Aiken Hodge

1984

Home truths

David Lodge

2000

Blue remembered hills a recollection

Rosemary Sutcliff

1988