King Under the Mountain

'It is no surprise that his biographers have often struggled, which makes D.J. Taylor the right man for the job. A polymathic critic and serious novelist, he knows as much about inter and postwar literature as anyone alive' The Times'This is by far the most entertaining study of Tolkien I've ever read' Alex Diggins, The TelegraphA provocative and suggestive account of the life of one of history's ...