Mervyn peake biography of michael moorcock

Vast Alchemies:
the life and work of Mervyn Peake

by G. Peter Winnington, was published in February 2000.

(There’s a page for corrections and additions to it.)

It was re-published in a revised and enlarged edition in 2009 as

(and there’s a page of additions and corrections to that too).

The first edition was listed 17th in the Locus poll of the best non-fiction books of 2000 and in 2003 it was nominated (in a shortlist of only four titles) for the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award.

The first edition contained previously unpublished photographs of Peake (and his wife Maeve Gilmore); the second also has unfamiliar photographs as well as some sixty reproductions of Peake paintings, drawings, and illustrations (some of them in colour), few of which have appeared before in any book.
In addition to Michael Moorcock’s foreword, the new edition contains a preface by Sebastian Peake, who writes:

“Peter Winnnington’s Vas