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Alexander Larman is an author, historian and journalist. After reading English at Oxford, from where he graduated with a First, he ghost-wrote and edited various memoirs and biographies, including the late artist and flâneur Sebastian Horsley’s Dandy In The Underworld. His involvement with the book led Horsley to say ‘there is no man in London more capable of genius – or a flop – than Alexander Larman’. He began his own writing career with <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21570460-blazing-star" rel="nofollow noopener">
 Blazing Star
</a> (Head of Zeus, 2014), a biography of the 17th century poet and libertine Lord Rochester, and followed this with <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29862257-restoration" rel="nofollow noopener">
 Restoration
</a> (Head of Zeus, 2016) a social history of the year 1666, and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29467775-byron-s-women"" rel="nofollow noopener">
 Byron’s Women
</a> (Head of Zeus, 2016), an ‘anti-biography’ of the poet Lord Byron and the significant women in his life. His next book, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54405459-the-crown-in-crisis" rel="nofollow noopener">
 The Crown in Crisis
</a> (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020) was a revisionist history of the abdication saga. It was selected by the Times, Daily Mail and Daily Express as one of their best books of the year and led to significant international media coverage of the new revelations about the event. As a journalist, Larman regularly contributes to titles including The Observer, The Critic, the Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and The Chap, for which he serves as literary editor. He lives in Oxford with his wife and daughter.

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