To the Hermitage

8vo. Pp. xi, 498. Orange pictorial wraps. Bibliographical references to rear.

Author's posthumously published last novel. In a series of dual narratives, one contemporary and one set during the reign of Catherine the Great, Bradbury recreates Diderot's Russian sojourn to both entertain and enlighten the Empress. The author was a co-founder of the Creative Writing Department of the University of East Anglia, which has produced many great writers, Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro chiefly amongst them.

"To the Hermitage reads like a love letter to the life of the mind from a man who, in his work as a writer, critic, academic and teacher has done much to contribute to that dizzying circulation of ideas which is so richly celebrated here." –Independent on Sunday