Written with full access to all Powell's public and private papers, this biography details Powell's Midlands childhood, his appointment at the age of 25 as Professor of Greek at the University of Adelaide, his writing of poetry, his love for an Irish woman and his Rivers of Blood speech.
- ISBN10 075380820X
- ISBN13 9780753808207
- Publish Date 11 November 1999 (first published 1 January 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 October 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 1040
- Language English