Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne – Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022

Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022. A sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and now in paperback. ** Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022 ** ** A Sunday Times top ten bestseller ** ‘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 dis-aster, 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. —- ISBN: 9780571345922