Autor Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

A joyful and enlightening masterclass in how reading attentively can change our livesAs an English literature professor, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst has delighted in sharing his love of reading with his students. Bringing together more than twenty years…

'The best book about reading I have read for a very long time' STEPHEN FRY'A glittering gem of a book' NATALIE HAYNESA joyful and enlightening masterclass in how reading attentively can change our livesAs an English literature professor, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst…

A major new biography of Charles Dickens, tracing the year that would transform his life and times*BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BECOMING DICKENS AND THE STORY OF ALICE*'It is hard to imagine a better book on Dickens' NEW STATESMANThe year is 1851.…

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty and disease. It's also a turbulent time in the life of Charles Dickens,…