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this spectacular reclaiming holds a fantastical mirror up the six queens and shows that women are always stronger when united' Helen Corcoran

'Why did you let me go

Each sentence precisely pins down a feeling' Los Angeles Review of Books`Writing is self-excavation

The first biography of one of the twentieth century's foremost champions of Hebridean culture

William Blake vs the World - John Higgs blhhgf this spectacular reclaiming holds aFascinating' The Times'Blakeian in its singularity' New Statesman'A wonderful adventure' Irish Times'Rich, complex and original' Tom Holland'A crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction' Times Literary SupplementPoet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. In this radical new biography, we return to a world of riots, revolutions and