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I Am Dynamite!
The Times Biography of the Year Winner of the Hawthornden Prize 2019 Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Prize 2019 Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 Longlisted for the Cundhill History Prize 2019 Friedrich Nietzsche's work blasted the foundation of western thinking. The death of God, the Übermensch, and the slave morality permeate our culture, high and low, and yet he is one of history's most misunderstood philosophers. Nietzsche himself thought that all philosophy was autobiographical and in this myth-shattering book, Sue Prideaux brings readers into the world of a brilliant, eccentric and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events and people that shaped his life and work. F...
Edvard Munch
The biography of the artist who created the most haunting icon of the twentieth century
Magnetic North
1917. War or no war, monied Europe continues to feel the need for winter sunshine and Gustav Oscarsson brings Katya Olovanova back to Oslo as his bride. Now, Oslo observes, both Oscarsson brothers have fine wives; Charlotta, pretty, transparent, elegant, controlled; and the tempestuous Katya, whom Oslo society admires with a salacious shudder - the Bolshevik's massacre of her family in the forest hanging about her like a shadowy blood mist. When Katya vanishes in San Francisco, Charotta is left with the pieces - and with the daughter, the second Katya, echo of the first, who burns as brilliantly as her mother, two comets on an inevitable parabola of destruction.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A look at the life and work of the influential philosopher reveals his anguished existence and assesses the philosophical connotations of his morality, religion, and art.
Rude Mechanicals
Peter Skeffington is one of those thoroughly decent, earnest fellows who cares deeply about his home, his landscape, the environment and those who people it. His wife, Lucy, is more demanding (but at heart rather lovable) and as pithy and sharp as her mother-in-law Honor can be. Lucy's current passion is horses, Peter's are plants, plant-hunting and the rehabilitation of young Danny, a boy from the local home for dysfunctional youths. Peter is, in an nutshell, a polite man in a naughty world. Even the village is hardly of stock variety - the vicar and his companion are bizarre, the garage man a Bible-bashing tyrant, the local nymphet as mean as a snake. Nevertheless, redemption comes in curious disguises...
Strindberg
The author looks at the life of the playwright best known for the work Miss Julie, paying special attention to how real life inspired the ideas, premises and characters of his plays and other literary works.
Edvard Munch
A comprehensive biography of Edvard Munch explores the events of his turbulent life and places his experiences in their intellectual, emotional, and spiritual contexts.
Tove Jansson Life, Art, Words
The Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. However, the Moomins were only a part of her prodigious output. Already admired in Nordic art circles as a painter, cartoonist and illustrator, she would go on to write a series of classic novels and short stories. She remains Scandinavia's best loved author. Tove Jansson's work reflected the tenets of her life: her love of family (and special bond with her mother), of nature, and her insistence on freedom to pursue her art. Love and work was the motto she chose for herself and her approach to both was...
Dostoevsky in Love
A highly original and immersive new biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, published to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth
So Much Longing in So Little Space
In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to understand the enduring power of Munch’s painting, Knausgaard reflects on the essence of creativity, on choosing to be an artist, experiencing the world through art and its influence on his own writing. As co-curator of a major new exhibition of Munch's work in Oslo, Knausgaard visits the landscapes that inspired him, and speaks with contemporary artists, including Vanessa Baird and Anselm Kiefer. Bringing together art history, biography and memoir, and drawing on ideas of truth, originality and memory, So Much Longing in So Little Space is a brilliant and personal examination of the legacy of one of the world’s most iconic painters, and a meditation on art itself.
