(Fourth Estate / Atico de los Libros, Spain / Mare Verlag, Germany / Einuadi, Italy; The Whale, Ecco USA).
Winner of 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. A gripping voyage of discovery into the heart of an obsession.
‘Philip Hoare was long been acclaimed as a brilliantly unconventional writer … This is the book he was born to write, a classic of its kind’, Rachel Cooke, The Observer.
3.30 am: frozen low in the night sky like a little ghost, the comet caught in the moment of falling away, bright ta… t.co/LXcUwM0xD0
3.30 am: an arc of heavenly bodies falling down to the sea: Venus, Mars, the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, a shooting star and me
