The Bloomsbury set just keep on delivering. Hard on the heels of the TV series (yet to be seen here) about the sexy carryings on of the Bloomsbury set comes a new biography of David Garnett called Bloomsbury's Outsider. Garnett - scientist, writer, free love enthusiast, conscientious objector in WW1 and spy in WW2 - certainly had an interesting life which is covered in this new book.
Some centuries back and we are in the world of Ancient Rome and Daisy Dunn, in a new biography, Catullus' bedspread : the life of Rome's most erotic poet, which looks at the life and poetry of the Catullus who put it about more than a bit.
More contemporary, but still not one for being prim, is Nick Cave whose new book The Sick Bag Song is described as a narrative song and poetry. It started its literary life being scribbled on airplane sick bags during a tour of America.
And the master of all writers, Mr Shakespeare himself, is covered in a new biography called Worlds Elsewhere which has had enthusiastic pre-publicity from the likes of Anthony Holden and Margaret Drabble.
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