Super-Infinite

Katherine Rundell has “Donne” it again. Her Baillie Gifford Prize-winning Super-Infinite awed the judges with its style, content and readability. Several of our judges admitted that, prior to reading Rundell’s book, they had no interest at all John Donne’s life but the author “absolutely smashed it” in this “completely riveting”, “phenomenally written” and “marvellous” book which has reinvigor- ated the category of literary biography.

Super-Infinite was “very well published”, with the elegant cover design and Faber’s work with indie booksellers highlighted as striking elements of the campaign. Overall, Super-Infinite was praised as “one of the best cradle-to-grave biographies” the judges had read. One judge described Rundell, also a bestselling children’s author, as a “Renaissance woman”. “It’s an absolute classic,” they agreed.