‘What was that book featured on the radio the other day?’
The Radio 4 Book of the Week, split into 5 episodes, is broadcast each morning at 9.45am.
Starting Monday 20th February 2023, Blake Ritson reads from Katherine Rundell’s ‘Super-Infinite’, her brilliant new biography of the poet, preacher, scholar and soldier John Donne.
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.
You can pre-order the paperback, published on 16th March, HERE or by clicking the image below.
