'Tremendously good' Observer'The most vivid and compelling portrait of late Victorian London since The Crimson Petal and the White' Sarah Perry'Part Wilkie Collins, part Conan Doyle' Guardian'Huge fun
One of the messages that Emily Dickinson wanted to communicate to the world was her great love of William Shakespeare -- her letters abound with references to him and his works. This book explores the
It is no small matter, after all, to create something - to make it so only by setting down the words.We forget the magnitude, sometimes, of that miracle'Mr Crowe was once the toast of the finest salon
By 1850, Alfred Tennyson was not merely the Poet Laureate, a commercially successful and critically acclaimed author, he was one of Britain's leading celebrities. Offering new analysis of the workings
