Super-Infinite The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022
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Katherine Rundell is an author and academic. Her bestselling books for children have been translated into more than thirty languages and have won multiple awards. Rundell is also the author of The Golden Mole and Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise. She has written for the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Review of Books and the New York Times.'Fascinating and incisive: spellbinding.' - John Carey<br />'A wonderful, joyous piece of work . . . with fierce, interrogative intelli-gence. it is fantastic to have this most elusive and mysterious of men brought out into the light, for all to see. I just loved it.'- Maggie O'Farrell<br /><br />
**A Sunday Times top ten bestseller**
** Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize **
**Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction **
'Masterly.' Observer
'Wonderful, joyous.' Maggie O'Farrell
'Frankly brilliant.' Sunday Times
'Unmissable.' Simon Jenkins
'Every page sparkles.' Claire Tomalin
'A triumph.' Matt Haig
'Stylish, scholarly and gripping.' Rose Tremain
John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable of being just one thing.
He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language.
In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell shows us the many sides of Donne's extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times - unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living.
Katherine Rundell's book Super-Infinite was a Sunday Times Bestseller w/c 16-04-2022