Biography

Fictional Selves

Kyle MacLachlan

A moment of war

Laurie Lee

Darkness Becomes Bright

Emily Ogden

The garden of the gods

Gerald Durrell

Black Coffee and Red Lipstick

Alexandra Shulman

Softly, as I Leave You

Priscilla Presley

Dying of politeness

Geena Davis

Frantumaglia

Elena Ferrante

Hawking

Graham Farmelo

Vagabond

Tim Curry

The Steps

Sylvester Stallone

Adolf Hitler

Spike Milligan

An Unexpected Life

Gloria Steinem

Return of the Bookseller Diarist

Shaun Bythell

Caravaggio

Andrew Graham-Dixon

Writing Black Beauty

Celia Brayfield

An Unsuitable Boy

Andrew Davies

Swan Song

Spencer, Charle Spencer

Bread of Angels

Patti Smith

More

Gillian Anderson

Threads

Paul Smith

The Melody of Things

Nadia Beard

Life on the Farm

Harriet Cowan

In the Realm of the Last Man

Francis Fukuyama

What the Bouncer Saw

George Bass

Look Closer

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

The Fall of the House of Montagu

Robert Wainwright

The past is myself

Christabel Bielenberg

Kolkhoz

Emmanuel Carrère

Book of Lives

Margaret Atwood

Lady sings the blues

Billie Holiday

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

Anyan Hu

The Great Dictator

Matthew Sweet

All About My Mother

Rachael Stirling

Wallis in Love

Andrew Morton

Great and Unfortunate Things

Jason Arday

The Quiet Ear

Raymond Antrobus

Last Night I Dreamt

Zulueta, Paul de

Vigilauntie

Meera Syal

Crick

Matthew Cobb

John Berger

Tom Overton

How I've Tried to Change the World

Alexei Sayle

The Indefatigable Asa Briggs

Adam Sisman

Scattered to the Wind

Peter Rimmer

Lion Song

Brian Jackman

Clinging to the Crags

Katharine Grant

The Glass Mountain

Malcolm Gaskill

Hiroshima, 8:15

Kiyoshi Tanimoto

The Showgirl and the Prince

Ruthie Henshall

Push the Wall

Frank Miller