'To die will be an awfully big adventure.'Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of th...

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A darkly comic and moving reflection on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is cer...

'To die will be an awfully big adventure.'Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of th...

A TIMES and SPECTATOR Book of the Year 'The best book about reading I have read for a very long t...

A joyful and enlightening masterclass in how reading attentively can change our livesAs an Englis...

'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him...

Rightly rejecting familiar accounts of Charles Dickens's life, Douglas-Fairhurst's biography show...

'To die will be an awfully big adventure.'Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of th...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in...

'I go about the street with water-creases crying, 'Four bunches a penny, water-creases.'' London ...

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgso...