What do you think?
Rate this book
Super-Beast: The Short Story of Saki
Not yet published
Expected 5 Nov 26As an author, the pseudonymous Saki became famous for some two hundred sketches and stories, whose surreal wit released an intoxicating savagery into the drawing-room world of Edwardian society. Even now, they define the most playfully wicked currents in the English comic imagination.
As a man, however, Hector Hugh Munro had an uncanny ability to disappear. Pioneer of the camp sensibility, conservative moralist, aesthete, soldier, sinner, the few papers left in his decimated archive seem to defy biographical coherence. Oliver Soden (Masquerade) follows the tracks of an elusive genius.
As a man, however, Hector Hugh Munro had an uncanny ability to disappear. Pioneer of the camp sensibility, conservative moralist, aesthete, soldier, sinner, the few papers left in his decimated archive seem to defy biographical coherence. Oliver Soden (Masquerade) follows the tracks of an elusive genius.
Kindle Edition
Expected publication November 5, 2026
About the author
Oliver Soden
8 books6 followersOliver Soden is a writer and broadcaster, and the author of Michael Tippett: The Biography. Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in April 2019, the biography was hailed by Philip Pullman as a "delight to read", and was read (by the author) for BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week, with Sir Derek Jacobi playing Tippett.
Oliver was educated at Lancing College in Sussex, and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he took a double first in English. For his research on Michael Tippett he was awarded a Fellowship in the Humanities from the University of Texas at Austin.
His essays and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including the Guardian, Gramophone, The Art Newspaper, BBC Music Magazine, and Musical Quarterly, and he is the editor of an edition of John Barton's ten-play epic Tantalus. He has appeared as a guest on the Six O'Clock News (BBC Radio 4), Proms Plus, Twenty Minutes, Music Matters, Composer of the Week, and Live in Concert (BBC Radio 3).
Oliver has worked as an assistant producer for a number of award-winning television documentaries, including George III: The Genius of the Mad King and Janet Baker: In Her Own Words (Crux productions), and is part of the team behind BBC Radio 3's long-running programme Private Passions.
Born in 1990, he grew up in Bath and Sussex, and lives in London.
Oliver was educated at Lancing College in Sussex, and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he took a double first in English. For his research on Michael Tippett he was awarded a Fellowship in the Humanities from the University of Texas at Austin.
His essays and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including the Guardian, Gramophone, The Art Newspaper, BBC Music Magazine, and Musical Quarterly, and he is the editor of an edition of John Barton's ten-play epic Tantalus. He has appeared as a guest on the Six O'Clock News (BBC Radio 4), Proms Plus, Twenty Minutes, Music Matters, Composer of the Week, and Live in Concert (BBC Radio 3).
Oliver has worked as an assistant producer for a number of award-winning television documentaries, including George III: The Genius of the Mad King and Janet Baker: In Her Own Words (Crux productions), and is part of the team behind BBC Radio 3's long-running programme Private Passions.
Born in 1990, he grew up in Bath and Sussex, and lives in London.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
No one has reviewed this book yet.