more fellow-feeling than derision
A love story and social satire set in the parallel and seemingly unconnected worlds of the British aristocracy and high finance
She highlights long-ignored sensory problems as well as the need to treat autism symptom by symptom
judgment and eye for detail are second to none' Sunday Times'Harris writes with a skill and ingenuity that few other novelists can match' Financial Times'Harris is a master of historical fiction
Savage but compelling' Ian Rankin''Funny
Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott Nelson Mandela more fellow-feeling than derisionThom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life is a landmark study of one of England's and America's most innovative and revolutionary poets. Michael Nott chronicles, for the first time, Gunn's largely undocumented life: his childhood in Kent and London, his mother's suicide, and his mind opening education at Cambridge, where he read Shakespeare and John Donne, wrote his first book, Fighting Terms, and met the man who was to become his life partner Mike Kitay. In his