Through a selection of letters to friends and literary peers, the author presents insight into the life and work of David…

In 1797, Lucia, a beautiful statesman's daughter was married off to a powerful Venetian, only to be caught up in the…

\nBlazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm) and…

Looks at Sean O'Casey's young (pre-writing) life that takes shape amid the extraordinary tumult of Ireland in the early…

\nRichard Brody\'s Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard is a landmark biography of one of the great…

Eliot - and of its author, a formidable woman sidelined by literary history. 'Heartbreaking and wonderfully told.' Susan…

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\nIn particular, it was the years during which he and his sister looked after their mother that shaped the writer we know so…

At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and…

\nTravels Over Feeling is the result of extensive research by author Richard King, curating the ephemera and documentation…

\nThe letters provide us with an intimate, multi-layered understanding of this extraordinarypoet\'s life and mind.\n…

\nThis selection of correspondence presents, for the first time, the private life and reflections of a maverick figure in…

\nAuden, George Barker, William Empson, Geoffrey Faber, John Hayward, James Laughlin, Hope Mirrlees, Mervyn Peake, Ezra…