Jenny Uglow’s The Lunar Men, described by our reviewer as a sparkling group biography of the 18th-century amateur experimenters led by Erasmus Darwin in the Lunar Society, is out in paperback next month (Faber & Faber). Uglow is busy finishing off another project, and admits her reading is a) curtailed and b) erratic as “it’s a case of turning off my brain”.
She has “truthfully been reading” Rose Tremain’s The Colour (Chatto and Windus, 2003), a “haunting novel about the New Zealand gold rush”, and a proof of Tibor Fischer’s “brilliantly uncomfortable” novel due in September, Voyage to the End of the Room (Chatto and Windus).…
