Five volumes: 'Elizabeth Gaskell - a Habit of Stories' (1993, second impression), 'The Lunar Men – the Friends Who Made the Future' (2002), 'Nature's Engraver – a Life of Thomas Bewick' (2006, signed by the author), 'The Pinecone – the Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine – Antiquarian, Architect and Visionary' (2012, second impression), and 'Mr. Lear – a Life of Art and Nonsense' (2017). Two men, two women, and a group history by the wonderful biographer and historian, who recaptures lost ways of life and makes you feel the life behind the facts.