A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards - including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in Essex.
An exploration of the bullfight in all its facets - be it sport, art form or stylized torture. The author (perhaps surprisingly, a prize-winning female novelist) discusses the obsessive pull of watching man and bull face death, the powerful sexual symbolism, and the theatricality of the choreographed spectacle. A maelstrom of ideas. (Kirkus UK)