Like all her work, Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man is as engrossing as the most freely imagined fiction.
Readers of Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man won't find it hard to picture them still raising storms on the heath on Walpurgis night.
"A deleted 1899 on the manuscript suggested he had written it a year before," Claire Tomalin tells us in her biography, Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man.
Claire Tomalin's Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (Viking) is yet another triumph for a biographer who goes from strength to strength.
Ever since listening to Clare Tomalin's biography, The Time-torn Man, I've been meaning to dig out Tess, Jude, Bathsheba, Eustacia and the rest of the Wessex clan, but it will be a mission.
Chatto & Windus; £20An intimate account, by the author of the magnificent "Aristocrats", of how George III's eight brothers and sisters were every bit as troublesome as the American colonists who plagued his reign.______________________________________________Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man By Claire Tomalin.
In non-fiction, Jenny Uglow's biography of Thomas Bewick, Nature's Engraver (Faber), was plugged most, followed by Claire Tomalin's Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man (Viking), Rupert Everett's Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins (Little, Brown) and former publisher Carmen Callil's Bad Faith (Cape).
Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin Viking £25, pp512 It was Hardy's first wife who noted his striking likeness to Dr Crippen, the wife-murderer about to be hanged in November 1910 after a sensational transatlantic flight with his young accomplice, Ethel Le Neve.
Her first book, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, won the Whitbread first book award in 1974, while The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, and Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man are among her other award-winning biographies.
Finding just 200 war-torn men in contrast to the 1,100 he had recruited, Wilson, with tears in his eyes, asked, "Is this my old regiment?" The 22nd did not stay long at Halls Hill.
Its director was a short, thin man in a torn sweater named Abdullah Azzam.
