Claire Tomalin

A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers. How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction? From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to the serious ill health that dominated his twenties...

'Truly marvellous. I cannot think of a better life of Jane Austen than Claire Tomalin’s' Philip Hensher Claire Tomalin brings her extraordinary gifts of scholarship, fluent writing and empathy for her subjects to bear on one of our greatest, and most elusive, novelists. Widely acclaimed as the finest of Austen biographies, Jane Austen offers us 'a brave, sharp-tongued character who...

The top 10 Sunday Times bestselling memoir of love, loss and literature from one of Britain's best biographers. As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success. Now, she turns to look at her own life. This enthralling memoir follows her through triumph and tragedy in about equal...