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2017 Ma'am darling : 99 glimpses of
Princess Margaret by Craig Brown
2016 The vanishing man : in pursuit of
Velazquez by Laura Cumming
2015
1606, William
Shakespeare and the year of Lear by James Shapiro
2014 The valley : a hundred years in
the life of a Yorkshire family by Richard Benson
2013
Penelope Fitzgerald : a life by
Hermione Lee
2012
The last sane man :
Michael Cardew, modern pots, colonialism and the counterculture by Tanya
Harrod
2011 The last Pre-Raphaelite : Edward
Burne-Jones and the Victorian imagination by Fiona MacCarthy
2010 Burying the bones : Pearl Buck in
China by Hilary Spurling (American edition
here)
2009
William
Golding : the man who wrote Lord of the flies: a life by John Carey
2008 A strange eventful history : the
dramatic lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and their remarkable families by
Michael Holroyd
2007 God's architect : Pugin and the building of
romantic
Britain by Rosemary Hill
2006 The man who went into the west : the
life of R. S.
Thomas by Byron Rogers
2005 Edvard Munch : behind the scream by Sue Prideaux
2004
John Clare : a
biography by Jonathan Bate
2003
Charles Darwin
: a biography : volume 2 : the power of place by
Janet Browne
2002 The lunar men : the friends who made the
future, 1730-1810 by Jennifer S. Uglow
2001
John Maynard
Keynes : volume 3 : fighting for freedom, 1937-1946 by Robert Skidelsky
2000 Experience by Martin Amis
1999
George Eliot :
the last Victorian by Kathryn Hughes
1998
The life of
Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd
1997
W.B. Yeats : a
life : volume 1 : The apprentice mage, 1865-1914 by R. F. Foster
1996
Thomas Cranmer
: a life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
1995
Albert Speer :
his battle with truth by Gitta
Sereny
1994
Under my skin by Doris Lessing
1993 Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage by Richard Holmes
1992
The reckoning
: the murder of Christopher Marlowe by
Charles Nicholl
1991
Darwin by Adrian Desmond and James Moore
1990 The invisible woman : the story of Nelly Ternan And
Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
1989
Federico
Garcia Lorca, a life by Ian Gibson
1988
Wittgenstein,
a life : young Ludwig, 1889-1921 by
Brian McGuinness
1987 Victor Gollancz : a biography by Ruth Dudley Edwards
1986 Helen Waddell by Felicitas Corrigan,
O. S. B.
1985
Jonathan
Swift, a hypocrite reversed : a critical biography by David Nokes
1984
Virginia
Woolf, a writer's life by Lyndall Gordon
1983
Franz Liszt :
volume 1: the virtuoso years, 1811-1847 by Alan Walker
1982
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann
1981
Edith Sitwell,
a unicorn among lions by Victoria Glendinning
1980
Tennyson, the
unquiet heart by Robert B. Martin
1979
Christopher
Isherwood : a critical biography by
Brian Finney
1978
The older
Hardy by Robert Gittings
1977
Chateaubriand
: a biography : volume 1 : the longed-for tempests by
George Painter
1976
A new life of
Chekhov by Ronald Hingley
1975 Cockburn's millennium by Karl Miller
1974
Samuel Johnson by John Wain
1973
Alexander the
Great by Robin Lane Fox
1972
Virginia
Woolf; a biography by Quentin Bell
1971
Lewis Namier :
a biography by Julia Namier
1970
Lord Palmerston by Jasper Ridley
1969
Mary, Queen of
Scots by Antonia Fraser
1968
George Eliot by Gordon S. Haight
1967
Charlotte
Brontë : the evolution of genius by
Winifred Gérin
1966
The life of
William Harvey by Geoffrey Keynes
1965
William
Wordsworth : the later years, 1803-1850 by
Mary Moorman
1964
Victoria R.I. by Elizabeth Longford
1963 John Keble : a study in limitations by Georgina Battiscombe
1962
Newman, the
pillar of the cloud and
Newman : light
in winter by Meriol Trevor
1961 Joseph Ashby of Tysoe, 1859-1919 by Mabel Kathleen Ashby
1960 The life Of Dean Inge by Canon Adam Fox
1959
Edward Marsh by Christopher Hassall
1958
The history Of
Fanny Burney by Joyce Hemlow
1957
Life of John Locke by Maurice Cranston
1956
George Bernard Shaw by St. John Greer Ervine
1955
Thomas Gray by R. W. Ketton-Cremer
1954
Warren Hastings by Keith Feiling
1953 Sir John Moore by Carola Oman
1952
Stanley Baldwin by G. M. Young
1951
Leslie
Stephen, his thought and character in relation to his time by Noel G. Annan
1950
Florence Nightingale,
1820-1910 by Mrs Cecil Woodham-Smith
1949 W. E. Henley by John Connell
1948 The great Dr. Burney; his life, his travels, his
works, his family, and his friends by Percy A. Scholes
1947
English
naturalists from Neckam to Ray : a study of the making of the modern world by Charles
Earle
Raven
1946
Wellington by R. Aldington
1945 Philip Wilson Steer by D. S. MacColl
1944
William the
Silent, William of Nassau, prince of Orange, 1533-1584 by C. V. Wedgwood
1943 Fourscore years, an autobiography by George Gordon Coulton
1942
Henry Ponsonby,
Queen Victoria's private secretary; his life from his letters
by Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede
1941
King George V
: a personal memoir by John Gore
1940
Spanish Tudor by Hilda F. M. Prescott
1939 English Scholars by David C. Douglas (2d rev. ed.
(1951) here)
1938
Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, a biographical study by Sir Edmund Chambers
1937 John Knox by Lord Eustace Percy
1936
A flame in
sunlight; the life and work of Thomas De Quincey by Edward Sackville West
1935
Thomas More by R. W. Chambers
1934
Queen Elizabeth by
Sir J. E. Neale
1933 The book of Talbot by Violet Clifton
1932 The life of Mary Kingsley by Stephen Gwynn
1931 David Hume by J. Y. T. Greig
1930
The lives of a
Bengal lancer by Francis Yeats-Brown
1929
The stricken
deer; or, The life of Cowper by Lord David Cecil
1928
Montrose
by John Buchan
1927 James Bryce (Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M.) by
H. A. L. Fisher
1926
John Wyclif, a
study of the English medieval church by Rev. Dr. Herbert B. Workman
1925
The portrait
of Zélide by Geoffrey Scott
1924 The house of Airlie by Rev. William Wilson
1923
Memoirs, with a full account of the great malaria problem and its solution by Sir Ronald Ross
1922
Earlham by Percy Lubbock
1921
Queen Victoria
by Lytton Strachey
1920
Lord Grey of
the Reform bill, being the life of Charles, second earl Grey by G. M.
Trevelyan
1919
Samuel Butler,
author of Erewhon (1835-1902); a memoir by Henry Festing Jones