His last book Time of the Magicians was a group biography of Benjamin, Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Cassirer. Here, he looks at four women who created new ways of thinking in the aftermath of WW2.
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy
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An ingenious novelistic biography by a sharp young author that uses excerpts from the novels to shed light on the writer's life.
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life
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The interviews underpinning this magnificent, substantial biography include many with Stoppard himself.
Tom Stoppard: A Life
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Most lives are untidy, and mine is no exception... She made herself a success in Fleet Street when journalism was still a very male domain, edited Elizabeth David and inspired the look - if ... read more
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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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