Telling Lives

'Telling Lives' is a fascinating collection of biographical essays by some of today's best-known historians and writers. Brought together by the acclaimed historian and writer Alistair Horne, the authors include Norman Davies, Roy Foster, Michael Ignatieff, David Gilmour, John Grigg, John Campbell and Redmond O'Hanlon.

Each of the essays has been written with an energy and enthusiasm that underlies the various talents of the contributors, all of whom have at one time held the Alistair Horne fellowship. Set up at St Antony's College, Oxford during the 1960s, Alistair Horne intended the fellowship to help young historians who were working on their first or second books. Since then the fellows have all now become established writers of distinction.

'Telling Lives' was commissioned to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Fellowship and the 50th of St Antony's College.