Today’s pre-eminent author for children is a Fellow of All Souls. Now she turns her scholarly attention to the religious outsider, social disaster, celebrity preacher, establishment darling, poet…
Super-infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
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£16.99
Edition:Hardback978057134591521/04/2022From a Bookshelf nearby
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Beautifully written and sensitive to his subject, this is a moving novel about Lampedusa, his remarkable wife Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee, and the writing of 'The Leopard'.
Lampedusa
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This skilful, moving jeu d'esprit could just as well be in the fiction section. It's about both the poet and the author's preoccupation with him, and contains as much fiction as fact. If you... read more
Being Betjeman
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Van Gogh was famously driven by books - his letters to Theo allude to 200+ authors. Here is an original study of their relation to his art.