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The son of biologist T. H. Huxley, Aldous Huxley had a privileged background and was educated at Eton and Oxford despite an eye infection that left him nearly blind. Having learned braille his eyesight then improved enough for him to start writing, and by the 1920s he had become a fashionable figure.

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* First general biography in UK for twenty years of one of the defining writers of the 20th century - Franz Kafka.

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* A group portrait of the poets of the First World War, seen in their full historical, military and biographical context, out now in paperback.

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* A unique, fascinating and richly detailed journey around the world as seen through Victorian eyes