Super-Infinite

A Sunday Times. top ten bestseller. Shortlisted for the Sunday Times. Young Writer of the Year Award 2023. Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023. Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize 2023. 'Masterly. ' Observer. 'Wonderful, joyous. ' Maggie O'Farrell. 'Frankly brilliant. ' Sunday Times. 'Unmissable. ' Simon Jenkins. 'Every page sparkles. ' Claire Tomalin. 'A triumph. ' Matt Haig. 'Stylish, scholarly and gripping. ' Rose Tremain. John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. In Super-Infinite. , Katherine Rundell shows us the many sides of Donne's extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times - unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living.