Publisher
Little, Brown, hardback
This new 586-page biography from Professor Richard Greene - no relation - considers Graham Greene, the writer and the public man, the unflinching traveller into trouble and forensic investigator into the human condition
"I put the muzzle of the revolver into my right ear and pulled the trigger," the writer Graham Greene once wrote, revealing his dalliance in London in 1923 with the possible end of his earthly existence and ensuing annihilation at a spot called Ashridge Beeches on Berkhamstead Common.
"There was a minute click and looking down at the chamber I could see that the charge had moved into the firing position," he related. "I was out by one."