To Keep The Ball Rolling
**The abridged memoirs of Anthony Powell, with a new introduction from Louisa Young**
'Powell can offer many of the rewards of comic creation we find in a Dickens or a Jane Austen' TLS
Anthony Powell earned a reputation as a literary giant within the generation of Waugh, Orwell and Greene, best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time.
These memoirs reveal Powell - the man and author - providing an insider's view of the British literary scene and social elite from the 1920s to the 1980s. In these pages, Powell observes the obscenity trial sparked by Lady Chatterley's Lover, and Shirley Temple's libel suit after Graham Greene reviewed Wee Willie Winkie with 'more than his usual…
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April 29, 2025Anthony Powell was the author of the twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time, as well as seven other novels, and four volumes of memoirs, To Keep the Ball Rolling. He was made a Companion of Honour in 1988. He died in March, 2000.
