The Coffee with... biography series is a selection of books published by Duncan Baird between 2007 and 2008 each containing fictional conversations with real famous people, conveying biographical fact. A review of Coffee with Oscar Wilde in The Independent, for example, explains that in it the author, Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland, "offers an imaginary and imaginative conversation between himself and his grandfather, set in a contemporary Parisian café". The review described that volume as "an ideal introduction to Wilde's seductive and intellectually electrifying world".
The first set of volumes published in 2007 covered eight figures: Ernest Hemingway, Gautama Buddha, Marilyn Monroe, Michelangelo, Mozart, Plato, Oscar Wilde, and Groucho Marx.
| Coffee with Aristotle | 2008 | |||
| Coffee with Dickens | 2008 | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| Coffee with Einstein | 2008 | |||
| Coffee with Groucho | 2007 | |||
| Coffee with Hemingway | 2007 | John Updike | ||
| Coffee with Isaac Newton | 2008 | Bill Bryson | ||
| Coffee with Marilyn | 2007 | |||
| Coffee with Mark Twain | 2008 | |||
| Coffee with Michelangelo | 2007 | John Julius Norwich | ||
| Coffee with Mozart | 2007 | John Tavener | ||
| Coffee with Oscar Wilde | 2007 | Merlin Holland (Wilde's grandson) | Simon Callow | |
| Coffee with Plato | 2007 | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| Coffee with Shakespeare | 2008 | Joseph Fiennes | ||
| Coffee with the Buddha | 2007 | Annie Lennox |