About the Author

Stuart Kelly was raised in the Scottish Borders and studied English at Balliol College Oxford, gaining a first class degree and a Master of Studies. He is the Literary Editor of Scotland on Sunday and a freelance critic and writer.

Reviews

'Clever and highly entertaining ... recall[s] John Aubrey's gossipy 'Brief Lives' and Lytton Strachey's 'Eminent Victorians' ... a many-splendored thing' 
*The New York Times*

'Lively and diverting'
*The Spectator*

'A fascinating anthology of writings, which will be quite new to most people and certainly deserve to be preserved'
*Muriel Spark*