Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller

'Dickensian is a language, not an adjective. Conrad speaks it fluently.' -- Spectator World

'Marvellous... the best book on Dickens since G.K. Chesterton's. -- A. N. Wilson, The Oldie

A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens's imagination and the world he created.

See Dickens as never before in this creative biography, which delves into his novels, journalistic essays and letters to reveal his strange, hilarious but obsessive personal character and the audacity of a mind that set out, as he sa...