edmund gosse

Jonathan Raban’s last hurrah

16 September 2023 9:00 am

Aged 69, the travel writer had a stroke and spent his last 20 years as a hemiplegic – and writing this memoir of his father’s life intertwined with snapshots of his own

Good biographers make the best companions

27 June 2020 9:00 am

Strange, when your own life flatlines, the way in which other lives become suddenly more interesting. I have been retreating…