{"product_id":"talking-to-the-dead-sarah-lefanu-9781800422629","title":"Talking to the Dead: Travels of a Biographer","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2020 the former Women's Press editor and literary critic Sarah LeFanu published her group biography of three British writers and their travels to South Africa in the closing days of the Victorian era, \u003cem\u003eSomething of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War\u003c\/em\u003e, which was shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTalking to the Dead: Travels of a Biographer\u003c\/em\u003e is a journal that covers the five years (2015-2020) of her research and writing, taking her from libraries and archives in England to old battle sites in South Africa, and recording her conversations with the living and the dead. \u003cem\u003eTalking to the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e is about South Africa then and now, about Britain then and now, about imperialism and the beginning of its end, about the biographical process, and also, intertwined with these subjects, about the experience of living with the painful chronic condition \u003cem\u003epolymyalgia rheumatica\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor life writers, for lovers of historical biography, for all readers of Rudyard Kipling, Mary Kingsley and Arthur Conan Doyle. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePraise for Something of Themselves: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'a splendidly well-written page-turner ... a classic' - Jan Montefiore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'brilliantly insightful' - Lara Feigel \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'highly original, thought-provoking ... sensitive, multi-layered' - Saul David\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Lefanu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1800422628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781800422629\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Silverwood Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d","brand":"Sarah Lefanu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48153843269887,"sku":"9781800422629","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0e2ea587-b78b-4531-b587-c4a3f61f48fc.jpg?v=1770786204","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/talking-to-the-dead-sarah-lefanu-9781800422629","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}