Biography & Memoir

The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb
Paperback
A window onto the lives of the Romantic poets through the re-creation of one legendary night in 1817.

Bastards: A Memoir
Paperback
Moving, haunting and at times wickedly funny, Bastards is about finding one’s family and oneself.

Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties
Paperback
A lively chronicle of the 1960s through the incredibly contentious and surprisingly close friendship of its two most colourful characters.

Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art
Hardback
A leading literary critic’s innovative study of how the Nobel Prize–winning author turned life into art.

Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul
Paperback
A soul icon and the southern music he helped popularise come to life in this moving requiem.


