Böcker av Richard Perceval Graves

Richard Perceval Graves, who has written acclaimed biographies of A.E. Housman, Richard Hughes, the Powys Brothers and his uncle Robert Graves, has now turned the spotlight on his own life: because he wishes to tell the story of what it was like being brought up in a professional family in those far-off days of the 1940s and 1950s.

When beautiful heiress Nicky Samuel (1951-2019) left school at the age of 16, she was caught up in the world of Sixties London.

A. E. Housman, romantic poet and classical scholar, is best-known as the author of A Shropshire Lad and the meticulous editor of Manilius, the Latin poet of astronomy.In this first full biography, Richard Perceval Graves convincingly reconciles the two apparently conflicting sides of Housman's personality, and reassesses the reputation of a man who was something of a mystery even to his closest friends.'This is bound to become the standard life.' John Carey, Sunday Times'Dispassionate and well-researched.' Philip Larkin, Guardian