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Book Synopsis **A Sunday Times top ten bestseller**
**Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023**
**Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023**
**Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize 2023**
Masterly.' Observer
Wonderful, joyous.' Maggie O'Farrell
Frankly brilliant.' Sunday Times
Unmissable.' Simon Jenkins
Every page sparkles.' Claire Tomalin
A triumph.' Matt Haig
Stylish, scholarly and gripping.' Rose Tremain
John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable of being just one thing.
He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language.
In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell shows us the many sides of Donne's extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living.
Katherine Rundell''s book Super-Infinite was a Sunday Times Bestseller w/c 16-04-2022
Trade Review'Fascinating and incisive: spellbinding.' - John Carey
'A wonderful, joyous piece of work . . . with fierce, interrogative intelli-gence. it is fantastic to have this most elusive and mysterious of men brought out into the light, for all to see. I just loved it.'- Maggie O'Farrell
