The first biography of David Garnett goes beyond stereotype and myth and presents a clear sighted account of this often contradictory figure at the centre of literary London in the era of the Bloomsbury Group. David 'Bunny' Garnett is now brought to life in the BBC series 'Life in Squares'.
Sarah Knights has an MA in Life Writing and a PhD from the celebrated School of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of East Anglia. She lives in north Norfolk. This is her first biography.
Sarah Knights' biography is lucidly written and full of new
material. Bloomsbury's Outsider, A Life of David Garnett, is a most
original guide to inner Bloomsbury. I strongly recommend it.
*Michael Holroyd*
Impressive biography ... beautifully written and full of
surprises.
*Paul Levy*
A delight to read ... genial and proportionate.
*Sunday Times*
Sarah Knights has written the book David Garnett deserves.
*Evening Standard*
Thoughtful and carefully researched account.
*The Spectator*
A sympathetic, thorough and witty portrait of a flawed but lovable
man.
*Daily Telegraph*
Magisterial biography.
*Saturday Times*
Excellent biography of David 'Bunny' Garnett...novelist, publisher
and long-time Bloomsbury eminence.
*Private Eye*
A delightful read...exceedingly well researched
*Guardian*
Sarah Knights’s Bloomsbury's Outsider did full justice to this
legendary figure
*Times Literary Supplement 'Books of the Year'*
It’s really surprising that there hadn’t been any full-length
biography of naughty David Garnett before Sarah Knights’s wonderful
Bloomsbury’s Outsider
*evening Standard 'Books of the Year'*
In between clear, elegant commentary, we get to hear David Garnett
telling his own extraordinary tale of a life messily yet often
joyfully entwined with Lytton Strachey, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant
et al
*Sunday Times 'finest books' of 2015*
…even by Bloomsbury standards, ‘Bunny’ Garnett’s ever-unfolding
love life was astounding
*New Zealand Listener '100 Books of the Year'*
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