Sontag Merseyside

Sontag MerseysideThe definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant, serious mind combined with her striking image, her rigorous intellectualism and her ground breaking inquiries into what was then seen as 'low culture' celebrity, photographs, camp propelled her into her own unique, inimitable category

With his customary imagination and grace

Although she believes she was justified for doing what she did

she was desperate to make her life count

she says ‘yes’

• the do's and don'ts of the babbling bottom

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is a brilliantly crafted

And the surprising daily habits that can add years to your life and life to your years

taking in the rich variety of landscapes across this beautiful area of South Wales

free-flowing narrative

From surviving the first night to building a unique base

and the many different reasons that they had to leave their home countries

Michael Morrison's diaries remind us of a different way of living - of more than forty years spent quietly but passionately dedicated to one special garden and its unique owner