January
The Adventures of Thomas Browne in the 21st Century Hugh Aldersey-Williams
February
An experimental biography of Sir Thomas Browne, the 17th-century physician, philosopher, and writer.
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March
profound and delightful jeu d’esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history, and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of Pseudodoxia Epidemica and into the 21st century, to apply his generous curiosity and rational intelligence to the vagaries and contradictions of life today. Browne has had some impressive fans (Sebald, Woolf, Borges, Poe, Marías) but this book will revive him, bringing his extraordinary genius to a whole new audience.
April
Praise for Periodic Tales: ‘A latter-day Montaigne... He offers [us] a vivid dramatization of his inquisitive mind in the act of thinking’ Telegraph May
‘Immensely engaging’ Sunday Times biography £20.00 / £14.99 May Royal 234 × 156mm HB / Export TPB 272pp TBC Integrated b/w images Selling territories: NCR Rights: SL
‘Great fun to read and an endless fund of unlikely and improbable anecdotes’ Financial Times
Agent: Greene and Heaton 978 1 84708 900 7 (HB) 978 1 84708 903 8 (Export TPB) 978 1 84708 901 4 (Ebook)
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July
hugh aldersey-williams is a writer and curator with interests ranging from science to architecture and design. His prolific career as a freelance journalist included a five-year stint at the New Statesman. He lives in Norfolk and has for many years been an unreasoning Thomas Browne obsessive.