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CROSSINGS: A JOURNEY THROUGH BORDERS Published July 2016. ‘Nicholas Murray unleashed his inner poet for his greatest nonfiction book,\u00a0Crossings. An examination of borders of all kinds \u2013 cultural, political, linguistic \u2013\u00a0it is particularly poignant when he approaches liminal borders such as old age.’ Martina Evans \u2013 The Irish Times \u2018This impressive collection of short pieces is part travelogue and part medi\u00adtation on other, metaphysical borders the biographer and poet Nicholas Murray has experienced.\u200b\u2019 \u2013 The Tablet   Borders are among the most contested and sensitive concepts of our time. Why do we erect them? What are they for? Can we...<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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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,’ – The Spectator<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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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 Independent<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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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 create an original and nuanced portrait of a remarkable place. The result is a rich mosaic built up from a range of sources: quirky eighteenth- and nineteenth-century guide books, songs, poems, reminiscences, sermons, novels, letters, histories, travelogues, political tracts, autobiographies, essays, journalism, official reports, and jokes. This is a book about how Liverpool has been seen by others, but it is also a moving record of...<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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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’ – The Rough Guide to Prague ‘Sound, compact, refreshingly judicious’ – The Sunday Times ‘Faultlessly researched and beautifully written’ – The Observer ‘Murray\u2019s portrait is necessarily various and surely the most truthful available…a fine biography’ – The Times<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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ALDOUS HUXLEY An English Intellectual Published in 2002. The first full biography since Sybille Bedford\u2019s official life 30 years earlier, it incorporated much new material.\u00a0 It is now considered to be the standard life of Huxley. ‘The research is immaculate…the writing is lively and sympathetic…this excellent biography has come at the right time’ – Jeanette Winterson, The Times ‘Excellent’ – Roy Jenkins ‘Wonderfully balanced and unfailingly interesting’ – John Gray, The New Statesman ‘A generous and intelligent biography’ – J.G.Ballard, The Guardian ‘The standard biography is Nicholas Murray\u201d \u2013 Chris Baldick, The Oxford English Literary History: The Modern Movement (2004)<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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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 work’ – Eric Griffiths, The Evening Standard ‘A quietly judicious, thoughtful account: fair, absorbing, unpartisan’ – Michael Glover, Independent on Sunday   ‘Had we but world enough and time This coyness lady were no crime…’ ~From Marvell\u2019s To his coy mistres<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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AFTER ARNOLD This is the published text of Nicholas Murray\u2019s British Library Centre for the Book Fellowship Lecture.\u00a0 He has written several polemical articles about culture and the current state of UK publishing.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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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 the Year in 1996. ‘A lucid and balanced biography…both comprehensive and compact, neither reverential nor easily scornful, and written with accuracy and charm’\u00a0 – Mick Imlah, The Observer ‘A timely and comprehensive biography’ – Paul Binding, The Independent<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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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\u00a0 of books on writers who have a connection with the Welsh borders.\u00a0 It was widely praised and is shortly to enter its third edition. At the Oxford Literary Festival in 2009 the author took part in a discussion about Chatwin ten years after the writer\u2019s death.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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THE RED SWEET WINE OF YOUTH The poetry that emerged from the trenches of the First World War is a remarkable body of work, at once political manifesto and literary beacon for the twentieth century. In this passionate recreation of the lives of the greatest poets to come out of the conflict, Nicholas Murray reveals the men themselves as well as the struggle of the artist to live fully and to bear witness in the annihilating squalor of battle. ‘This insightful book’ – The Good Book Guide Click here for Another review:\u00a0 <\u00a0 http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5rz6axx ><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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REAL BLOOMSBURY In this very personal but thoroughly researched journey through today’s Bloomsbury, I find past and present existing on easy terms in a unique area of Central London. Backpackers and tourists jostle with the literary ghosts of early twentieth century Bloomsbury and an actor in the Carry On films turns out to have lived next door to where one of the 20th century’s most famous works of literary criticism got written \u2013 before becoming the premises of a Bengali grocer. Blocks of council flats named after a medieval manor, the mummified body of a nineteenth century philosopher sitting in...<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":1}