Hilary Spurling: 3 books
Anthony Powell
Dancing to the Music of Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into the heart of twentieth-century London's literary life.
Insightful, lively, and enthralling, this biography is as much a brilliant tapestry of a seminal era in London’s...
Pearl Buck in China
Journey to The Good Earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
One of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West.
She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, an overnight worldwide bestseller in 1932, later a blockbuster movie. Buck went...
The Girl from the Fiction Department
A Portrait of Sonia Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Absorbing and provocative, a biography of George Orwell's controversial second wife from the Whitbread Prize-winning author of Matisse the Master and Anthony Powell
Just three months before his death, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four took a new wife. Sonia Brownell was model for Julia in...