This concise, unbiased biography of Roald Dahl, one of the most popular children’s authors of all time, is a good…
I bought this book from the British Library a couple of years ago and suddenly decided it was about time…
I have a short story, ‘The Glowing Beauty’, in a new book published by Brigids Gate Press. This is my…
An unusual group biography of five literary women: the poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), novelist Dorothy L Sayers, classicist and…
This is a stunning, haunting memoir blended with nature writing and literary criticism. One of the best elements is the…
It was a humid, cloudy Saturday in late September and a few years since I was last at the British…
So much has been written about Oscar Wilde. But what about his wife, Constance? It’s wonderful that she has her…
Most of us know Edward Lear as the ‘nonsense poet’, writer of such well-loved gems as ‘The Owl and the…
The autobiography of poet, musician and activist Benjamin Zephaniah is a brilliant read, written in a straightforward style with short…
This is an unusual biography of Mary Shelley, the author best known for Frankenstein and The Last Man. I really…