CROSSINGS: A JOURNEY THROUGH BORDERS Published July 2016. ‘Nicholas Murray unleashed his inner poet for his greatest nonfiction book, Crossings. An examination of borders of all kinds – cultural, political, linguistic – it is particularly poignant...
BLOOMSBURY AND THE POETS A literary guide to the poets who have lived and worked in Bloomsbury following my Real Bloomsbury (Seren). The ideal companion to a walk around literary Bloomsbury. ‘A delight,’ –...
A CORKSCREW IS MOST USEFUL The Travellers of Empire Published by Little, Brown in 2008 with the paperback edition appeared in July 2009. ‘A trunk packed full of tales of high adventure…terrific’ – The...
SO SPIRITED A TOWN Visions and versions of Liverpool In this highly personal encounter with his native city Nicholas Murray blends literary descriptions of Liverpool across the centuries with his own childhood memories to...
KAFKA This life of the writer Franz Kafka, was published in 2004 by Little, Brown (UK) and Yale (USA) and has been translated into eight languages, including Chinese and Hebrew. ‘Superbly researched and level-headed’...
ALDOUS HUXLEY An English Intellectual Published in 2002. The first full biography since Sybille Bedford’s official life 30 years earlier, it incorporated much new material. It is now considered to be the standard life...
THE LIFE OF ANDREW MARVELL A biography of the seventeenth century poet and politician, Andrew Marvell, published in 1999 by Little, Brown. ‘Nicholas Murray persuasively conveys the perpetual alertness of the man and his...
AFTER ARNOLD This is the published text of Nicholas Murray’s British Library Centre for the Book Fellowship Lecture. He has written several polemical articles about culture and the current state of UK publishing.
THE LIFE OF MATTHEW ARNOLD The author’s second book, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1996 was a life of the Victorian poet and critic Matthew Arnold. A New York Times Notable Book of...
BRUCE CHATWIN Published by Seren in 1996 this was the first book on the writer (and the authors first book) and was published in the Borderlines series of books on writers who have a...