Engineers of Human Souls Spooky and the Tree of Life

and the Tree of Life

The time to determine the future of magicians everywhere has come

'A serious-minded study of scandals in which vulnerable people were failed by those in authority' Guardian Best Politics Books of 2023 'The book will reinforce the view that May was a politician of conviction and compassion' Robert Shrimsley

and be inspired—every day

Engineers of Human Souls Spooky and the Tree of LifeFour writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writers once the faithful servants of authority into figures of political consequence. Maurice Barrs, who first wielded the politics of identity. Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose poetry became a blueprint for fascism. Maxim Gorky, dramatist of the working class and Stalin's