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Hilary Spurling is the award-winning biographer of the novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett, George Orwell's wife, Sonia Orwell, and painter Henri Matisse. The second volume in her life of the painter, Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour 1909-1954, won the 2005 Whitbread book of the year award.
- Burying The Bones
- by Hilary Spurling
She will be discussing her new book, Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck's Life in China (Profile Books £15), at The Asia House Festival of Asian Literature on 11 May. www.festivalofasianliterature.com
