Dame Iris Murdoch was a novelist, philosopher, playwright and Oxford academic. Her books explored morality, love and human relationships and won widespread acclaim, as well as the Whitbread Prize ...

Iris Murdoch’s 600-page, 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea is quite simply among the most gorgeous books I have ever read. Murdoch’s 19th novel – and the winner of the 1978 Booker Prize ...