The absorbing portrait Edward Garnett, an editor, critic and publisher's reader, who shaped the literary landscape as we know it. Over a career spanning nearly fifty years Edward Garnett would become one of the most influential men in twentieth-century British literature.

Helen Smith lives in Norfolk and teaches non-fiction and modern literature at the University of East Anglia. The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett is her first book; it received a RSL-Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction in 2011.