Faber and Faber
Hardback, 416pp., 9780571245987 (4 August 2011) Ebook, B005CG8ICY (4 August 2011) Paperback, 9780571245994 (5 January 2012) |
W. W. Norton
Hardback, 416pp, 9780393089073 (22 October 2012) |
‘I read this book entranced, inspired, anxious and grateful and I finished it in tears. It is important and it is wonderful.’
— Carol Ann Duffy
‘Hollis’s fine book helps us to understand how much more there is to Thomas than willow-herb and meadowsweet and haycocks dry.’
— Robert Macfarlane, Guardian
‘An acute and unforgettably moving study of friendship and creativity.’
— Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times, Biography of the Year
‘Like Edward Thomas’s poetry, Now All Roads Lead to France is a work of careful, unobtrusive excellence, subtle insight and great emotional power.’
— Adam Foulds
‘Thoughtful and scrupulous book . . . A bravura critical performance.’
— John Carey, Sunday Times
‘Hollis movingly analyses these [poems] and writes heart-stoppingly . . . This is a brilliant and superbly written study by a writer, himself a poet, who understands his subject with acute but critical sympathy.’
— Nigel Jones, Sunday Telegraph, Book of the Week
‘Now All Roads Lead To France is a beautiful biography, an unfussy, clear-headed study of the making of a poet, and perhaps above all, a gentle reminder that poetry can be almost as essential to the human spirit as breathing.’
— Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday, Book of the Week
‘Finally gives the poet’s poet among the dead of the Great War the measured and moving biographical treatment he deserves.’
— Jonathan Bate, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year