The Savage God : A Study of Suicide Ian Chilvers Sherlock Holmes established new rules

Sherlock Holmes established new rules for what a fictional hero could be

learning to eradicate ignorance by developing your own inner wisdom

Starring both fashion icons and anonymous women met on the streets of Paris and richly illustrated with hand-drawn sketches and Veysset’s striking photographs

The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows

this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that

The Savage God : A Study of Suicide Ian Chilvers Sherlock Holmes established new rulesUsing the untimely death of the poet and friend, Sylvia Plath, as a point of departure, Al Alvarez confronts the controversial and often taboo area of human suicide. "The Savage God" explores the cultural attitudes, theories, truths and fallacies surrounding suicide and refracts them through the windows of philosophy, art and following the black thread leading from Dante, through Donne, Chatterton and the Romantic Agony, to Dada and Pavese. Entwined