Dickens the Enchanter : Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller - Peter Conrad Crime Kaminsky kept his past cloaked

Kaminsky kept his past cloaked in secrecy well into his eighties

wholly intoxicating novel

Laleh Khalili

every page is an immensely pleasurable deep-dive into the life-affirming craft of poetry and a passionate argument for why we should all pick up a pen

and what it means to be a true original

Dickens the Enchanter : Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller - Peter Conrad Crime Kaminsky kept his past cloakedDickensian is a language, not an adjective. Conrad speaks it fluently.' Spectator World'Marvellous the best book on Dickens since G. K. Chesterton's. A. N. Wilson, The OldieA kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens's imagination and the world he created. See Dickens as never before in this creative biography, which delves into his novels, journalistic essays and letters to reveal his strange, hilarious but obsessive personal character and the audacity