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He has wit, style, and panache, in a world where those qualities are in permanently short supply * The New York Review of Books *
I would rather read Mr. Powell than any English novelist now writing -- Kingsley Amis
Incalculably brilliant * TIME Magazine *
[A] comic masterpiece * Irish Times *
Comic, satisfying, thought-provoking, addictive * The Telegraph *

Anthony Powell was born in 1905. After working in publishing and as a scriptwriter, he began to write for the Daily Telegraph in the mid-1930s. He served in the army during World War II and subsequently became the fiction reviewer on the TLS. Next came five years as literary editor of Punch. He was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1988. In addition to the twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell was the author of seven other novels, and four volumes of memoirs, To Keep the Ball Rolling. He died in March 2000. Discover the extraordinary life of Anthony Powell - captured by acclaimed biographer Hilary Spurling in Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time - available now in hardback and ebook from Hamish Hamilton.