Sontag Merseyside she was desperate to make

she was desperate to make her life count

Although she believes she was justified for doing what she did

With his customary imagination and grace

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

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

Sontag Merseyside she was desperate to makeThe 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