Lifescapes

The acclaimed biographer and obituarist for The Economist reflects on a career spent pursuing life and capturing it on the page

''Lifescapes is the universe in miniature''
DAILY TELEGRAPH

It is soul that I go looking for. Or, to put it another way, real life.

''She''s a genius, I believe''
HILARY MANTEL, author of Wolf Hall

''What is life?'' asked the poet Shelley, and could not come up with an answer. ...