Claire Harman

Accessible, lively new biography of an under-served female writer, from a bestselling, acclaimed literary biographer. Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance, and wonderfully inspiring personality. Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, insecurity and sacrifice — alongside...

Accessible, lively new biography of an under-served female writer, from a bestselling, acclaimed literary biographer. The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023 A Waterstones Best Book of 2023 All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work — A.L. KENNEDY Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's career was...

A gripping investigation into the crime that scandalised literary London, from Dickens to Thackeray. On a spring morning in 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a household of servants awoke to discover that their unobtrusive master, Lord William Russell, was lying in bed with his throat cut so deeply that the head was almost severed. The whole of London, from...