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Grevel Lindop was formerly Professor of Romantic and Early Victorian Studies at the University of Manchester. His previous books include The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey; A Literary Guide to the Lake District; Travels on the Dance Floor, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week; and a twenty-one volume edition of The Works of Thomas De Quincey. He has published six collections of poems, and his Selected Poems appeared in 2000. He lives in Manchester, where he now works as a freelance writer
an excellent biography, taking its place as the premier resource on Williams * The Notion Club Papers * a thorough, profound, and sympathetic study * A.N Wilson, First Things * As a work of biographical scholarship, then, The Third Inkling leaves nothing to be desired. * The Oddest Inkling * wonderful biography * Network Review * well-written biography * Notre Dame magazine * The Third Inkling is a very readable book which wears its meticulous research lightly - and that's no mean feat. It raises some important and troubling questions. * A Writer's Life * an authoritative, and extremely readable, biography. * Sydney Morning Herald * the definitive biography ... .a brilliant introduction to a brilliant, yet very troubled and troubling, man * Evangelical Times * Grevel Lindop has written a ground-breaking life, at once scholarly and readable, which reveals Williams in all his fascination ... Lindop has done a real service in showing not only why his writing had such an appeal for Tolkein, Lewis, and Eliot, but how it can still jolt us into deeper reflection today. * The Rt Revd Lord Harries, Church Times * Lindop's narrative, packed with incident and parcelled into satisfying arcs, is exemplary * Oxford Today * Lindop's exhaustive research and clarity of presentation make this an indispensable volume for anyone who wishes to understand Williams and come to terms with his writing and influence. No future study of Williams will be adequate without drawing on this study; Lindop deserves much praise for bringing to completion such a massive endeavour. * Holly Ordway, Journal of Inkling Studies * His prose style has benefitted from long years of listening to the musicality of language: his sentences are clear and competent, his narrative skill evident, his storytelling ability considerable. It is this last quality, in combination with his meticulous scholarship, that makes The Third Inkling masterful. * Sorina Higgins, Journal of Inkling Studies * Grevel Lindop's biography of Charles Williams is, in almost every way, all that one would want in such a study: comprehensive, judicious, sympathetic, but also properly surprised by its subject, for good and ill. * Rowan Williams, Journal of Inkling Studies * a fascinating, and even astonishing biography * Theology * fascinating reading ... meticulous study ... This biography puts Williams back in the picture * Andy Ffrench, Oxford Times * thorough biography * Journey * [a] fine, thoroughly researched book. * Tablet * excellent biography * London Review of Books * Lindop has added significantly to our knowledge of the Third Man in the Inklings and deftly filled in some major blank areas in our standard map of literary modernism. * Kevin Jackson, Literary Review * This solid and scholarly biography explores the byways of literary history with much verve and energy ... Lindop has provided a fascinating account * Philip Hensher, Spectator * exemplary, and very thought-provoking * Philip Hensher, Books of the Year 2015, The Spectator * In Charles Williams: The Third Inkling, Grevel Lindop has written a page-turner. He proves himself a master of the biographical narrative. He knows how to end chapters and sections of chapters with cliffhangers. He liberally employs the ironic slant, and he has an eye for visuals. Lindop's preface, a model of balanced prose, sets the volume's tone. * Philip Irving Mitchell, Religion and the Arts *
