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Pascal Bruckner

Pascal Bruckner's memoir reads like a novel, a Bildungsroman which charts his journey from pious Catholic child to leading philosopher and writer on French culture.

The key figure in Bruckner's life is his father, a virulent anti-Semite, who voluntarily went to work in Germany during the Second World War. He is a violent man who beats his wife. The young Bruckner soon reacts against his father and his revenge is to become his polar opposite, even to the point of being happy to be called a 'Jewish thinker', which he is not. 'My father helped me to think better by thinking against him. I am his defeat.' .

Despite this opposition, he remains tied to his father to the very end. He has other 'fathers', men such as Sartre, Vladimir Jankélévitch and Roland Barthes who fostered his philosophical development, and describes his friendship with his 'philosophical twin brother', Alain Finkielkraut. .

A great read for anyone interested in the 1960s, the intellectual life of France and the father and son relationship.

Dedalus

Dark Masters

A Dutiful Son

Mike Mitchell

Robert Baldick

Brendan King

Definitive biography of one of the great late 19th century novelists

The Life of J.-K.Huysmans

tom Cullen

The seedy and beguiling Gerald Hamilton was the man who Isherwood modelled Mr Norris on in Mr Norris Changes Train

The Man Who Was Norris: The Life of Gerald Hamilton

H.C. Andersen

From provincial obscurity to one of the most famous writers of his day.

My Fairy-Tale Life

Glyn Jones

The first English-language biography of the novelist and magus. Stories collected round Gustav Meyrink, so that it is often difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. Vivo: The Life of Gustav Meyrink presents the reader with both the remarkable life and the fantastic legend that was Meyrink, allowing him and those who knew him to speak in their own words wherever possible.