Wine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group
biographies introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting). Though she loved the
heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and read Monte Cristo ... >
One of the first group biographies inspired by the Pop Artists Althea Hayter's glorious A
Sultry Month was a groundbreaking feat of creative non-fiction in 1965 - and as radical today.
An experiment in the art of biography that has [been] never bettered. -- Guardian A form which
was so new as to lack a name ... A masterpiece. -- Anthony Burgess
