Anthony Powell
BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times
'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year
'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books
'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Prospect
From the author of the prize-winning Matisse The Master comes an essential biography of one of 20th century Britain's greatest literary minds
Anthony Powell: the literary genius who gave us A Dance to the Music of Time, an epic twelve spectacular volume cyle of novels about twentieth century British society. This comic masterpiece teems with idiosyncratic characters, capturing Britain through war and peace in all its eccentricity. And it was inspired by the author's own…