Matthew Hollis

Now All Roads Lead to France chronicles the final five years of Edward Thomas, perhaps the most beguiling and influential of the First World War poets. This account centres on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fateful decision to fight in the war. The book also evokes an astonishingly creative moment in English literature, when London was a...

Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary. 'A rattling good story' - Sunday Telegraph 'A work of art' - Times Literary Supplement The Waste Land has been called the 'World's Greatest Poem'. It is...

The Waste Land is said to be the greatest poem of the age. It is thought to describe the moral decay of a world after war, sexuality, and rebirth; it has been called the most truthful poem of the times, and it has been labelled a masterful fake. But a century after its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's masterpiece...