Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

First edition. Pp. xxvii, 219. Quarter-bound in hunter green cloth over bottle green paper-boards, lettered in gilt to spine; pale green endpapers. Dust jacket illustration by Marianna Gartner. Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgements, Index.

Signed by Author to title-page.

Essays about writing, which originally "began life" as the Empson Lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge in 2000 – expanded and revised somewhat for this book. "A pleasure to read: erudite, talky, with a heady humour." –Daily Telegraph