In this fascinating biography, Douglas Murray explores fully, for the first time, the mass of contradictions that made up the life of Bosie, a genius yet a failure through his tormented youth, the trials of Oscar Wilde, marriage, his own imprisonment (for libelling Churchill), bankruptcy, and growing faith before his death in 1945.

With new material and fresh insight, Bosie; the third son of the Marquess of Queensbury, and a member of one of the noblest houses of Scotland is here seen as a significant poet whose tragedy extended far beyond his lovers death a century ago, into a world which could never forgive or forget him.