An intelligent and subtle biography of George Orwell (1903-1950), the author of 1984 and Animal Farm which between them have sold 40 million copies.  Meer

Malcolm Lowry was the troubled author of Under the Volcano (1947), a brilliant novel about the last day of an alcoholic former British consul on the Mexican Day of the Dead, the manuscript of which Lowry rescued from the flames when his fisherman's shack burned down in 1944.  Meer

Long-awaited and comprehensive biography of the great Irish author James Joyce, who died 70 years ago  Meer

The gripping inside story of Gordon Brown’s rise to become Prime Minister.  Meer