Autor: Lara Feigel

Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places. W.H. Auden, dedication to Stephen Spender, 1932Stephen Spender wrote almost a million words of journal entries …

This book is both a celebration of the life and career of the eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland and an extension of Sutherland’s work in various fields, including ninet …

This book tells the story of a generation of writers who were passionately engaged with politics and with cinema, exploring the rise and fall of a distinct tradition of cinematic literature. Dismayed …

War affects life writing and lives affect war writing. The traditional forms of life writing-memoir, biography, letters, diaries-buckle under the strain of war. War writing has fewer traditional form …

War affects life writing and lives affect war writing. The traditional forms of life writing-memoir, biography, letters, diaries-buckle under the strain of war. War writing has fewer traditional form …

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‘A fascinating mix of literary criticism, cultural history and memoir Highly enjoyable’ Sunday Times How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Rereading The Golden N …

As the Second World War neared its conclusion, Germany was a nation reduced to rubble: 3.6 million German homes had been destroyed leaving 7.5 million people homeless; an apocalyptic landscape of fla …

When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeples …

‘A very funny and brilliant book. Feigel does a thorough and virtuosic job of describing the dilemmas of contemporary middle-class women’ Rachel Cusk The five of them – Stella, Priss, Kay, Helena and …

‘Her intensity and intimacy are engaging’ Blake Morrison, Guardian’A lovely, urgent, serious book’ Tessa Hadley’Refreshing and unexpected’ Daisy Hay, Financial Times Brilliantly interweaving literary …

‘Her intensity and intimacy are engaging’ Blake Morrison, Guardian’A lovely, urgent, serious book’ Tessa Hadley’Refreshing and unexpected’ Daisy Hay, Financial Times Brilliantly interweaving literary …