Lyndall Gordon's roundly-praised LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS: Emily Dickinson and her Family's Feuds will be published in Italy and Spain after deals were concluded by Roberta Oliva with Fazi Editore in Italy and by Teresa Vilarrubla with Edhasa in Spain, on behalf of Lyndall Gordon's agent, Isobel Dixon. Edhasa have also bought rights to two of Gordon's backlist biographies: VIRGINIA WOOLF: A Writer's Life and CHARLOTTE BRONTE: A Passionate Life.

LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS is already published by Virago in the UK, with Viking set to publish the US edition in June 2010.  It has been met with a flurry of brilliant reviews in the UK and was selected as 'Book of the Week' by The Times, Guardian, Sunday Telegraph and Mail on Sunday. Caroline Moore of the Sunday Telegraph said: 'Lyndall Gordon proposes a theory to account for the enigma of Emily Dickinson's life as a notorious recluse which is so brilliant that, if this were a novel, a reviewer would be duty-bound not to reveal a thrilling twist...Unforcedly and powerfully original.' And Jeanette Winterson of The Times wrote: 'Its questioning intelligence is a real pleasure and, as always with Gordon, the writing flows. It is a biography that compels without being sensational, quite a feat considering the material, with its twists, curves, lies, deliberate distortions and well-intentioned concealments.' In the US the book is already attracting attention with a starred review appearing in Publishers Weekly in April, two months prior to its US publication.

Lyndall Gordon is the author of eight previous books, including biographies of Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Bronte, Mary Wollstonecraft, T. S. Eliot and Henry James. She won the James Tait Black Prize for A WRITER'S LIFE and the Cheltenham Prize for Literature with A PASSIONATE LIFE. VINDICATION: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft was also longlisted for the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. She lives and works in Oxford, where she is Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda's College.

Praise for Lyndall Gordon:

'As Gordon tells it, this story of the terrible fascination Dickinson exerted on her heirs is as rich as a novel by Henry James...Perhaps for the first time since Dickinson's death, she invites us to meet the poet head-on.' 

-- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Telegraph

'If she was invisible before, Gordon in this book gives Emily Dickinson the startling clarity of one of her own poems.' 

-- Frances Wilson, Sunday Times

'Gordon's book makes you read Dickinson again with polished eyes: expect it on the prize lists soon.'
-- Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday

'This is a work of literary detection...illuminating...The Dickinson genius, courtesy of Gordon's dexterity, survives the hazards of "biographical contexts". Here is the definite biography.'
-- Ronald Frame, The Scotsman