Sick bags and bedspreads: New titles from our Literature Selector

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.

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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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Philip Tew
Fiction selector