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In this exquisite, haunting book, John Burnside describes his coming of age from the industrial misery of Cowdenbeath and Corby to the new world of Cambridge. This is a memoir of romance – of lost love and the love of being lost – darkened by threat, illuminated by glamour.
Roy Jenkins was probably the best Prime Minister Britain never had. But though he never reached 10 Downing Street, he left a more enduring mark on British society than most of those who did. His career spans the full half-century from Attlee to Tony Blair, during which he helped transform almost every area of national life and politics. This biography is the story of an exceptionally well-filled and well-rounded life.
Philip Roth, one of the most renowned writers of his generation, hardly needs introduction. From his debut, ‘Goodbye, Columbus’, which won the National Book Award, to his Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘American Pastoral’, to his eternally inventive later works such as ‘Exit Ghost’ and ‘Nemesis’, Roth has produced some of the greatest literature of the past 100 years. And yet there has been no major critical work about him, until now. Claudia Roth Pierpont tells an engaging story even as she delves into the many complexities of Roth’s work and the controversies it has raised. This is not a biography – though it contains many biographical details – but something more rewarding: an attempt to understand a great writer through his art. Pierpont, who has known Roth for several years, peppers her gracefully written and carefully researched account with conversational details.
‘You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed …’ Julian Barnes’s new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as ‘an unparalleled magus of the heart’. This book confirms that opinion.
After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as ‘Terra Incognita’ and ‘The Magnetic North’, Sara Wheeler rediscovered America 35 years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace the steps of 6 women who fled various sorts of trouble in 19th-century England and went to the United States to reinvent themselves.
At the core of ‘On Writing’ is the hugely popular blog that A.L. Kennedy writes for the Guardian and we follow her during a 3-year period when she finished one collection of stories and started another, and wrote a novel in between. Readers and aspiring writers will have almost everything they need to know about the complexities of researching, writing and publishing fiction, but they will be receiving this wisdom conversationally, from one of the funniest and most alert of our contemporary authors.
James Wood offers a panoramic look at the modern novel, connecting his encyclopaedic, passionate understanding of the literary canon with an equally in-depth analysis of the most important authors writing today.
As editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger’s life is dictated by the demands of the 24-hour news cycle. It is not the kind of job that leaves one time for hobbies. But in the summer of 2010, he was able to make his annual escape to ‘piano camp’. Here, he set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, Chopin’s Ballade No.1.
Ray Monk’s biography of Robert J. Oppenheimer reveals the motivations and complexities of this brilliant and divisive man. Oppenheimer had diverse interests and phenomenal intellectual attributes, but also a complicated and fragile personality, his suspicious connections in the 1930s bringing him to McCarthy’s attention.
This biography charts Nancy Astor’s incredible story, from relative penury in the American South to a lifestyle of the most immense riches through the ‘Jazz Age’ and beyond, a world of enormous countryside estates and townhouses, and the most lavish entertainments, peopled by the great figures of the day.
Modelled on Lytton Strachey’s classic work about the Victorians, these irreverent and insightful miniatures, set in vivid historical context, shed new light on the age of Elizabeth II.
An expansive, moving and captivating graphic memoir from one of the finest cartoonists at work today.
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