An academically focused text has won this year’s Guardian First Book award and £10,000.
Alexandra Harris’s Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper beat four other works. It covers English writers of the 1930s and ’40s.
You can read the first chapter on the Guardian website. You can also read the review roundup.
The book is now available in the U.S.
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