May 14, 2019 Five Fascinating Facts About… Daphne du Maurier Compiled by Annabel Ali at her blog, Heavenali, is hosting Daphne du Maurier reading week from May 13-19, so we’re joining in. One: Jamaica Inn, the…
August 3, 2017 Five Fascinating Facts about… Anthony Burgess Compiled by Annabel Researching Burgess for this article, I found so many nuggets, I could easily have compiled a list of fifty facts –…
May 11, 2017 Five Fascinating Facts about… Arnold Bennett Compiled by Julie Barham 1.Bennett was an ardent Francophile, frequently looking to France as a source of literary inspiration. He would moor his yacht…
July 14, 2016 Five Fascinating Facts About… A.A. Milne Written by Simon Thomas 1.) A.A. Milne had a famous schoolteacher. A.A. Milne’s father John ran a small boys’ school, Henley House, and one of…
April 5, 2016 Five Fascinating Facts about… Vita Sackville-West Compiled by Simon Vita Sackville-West is probably best remembered today as the inamorata of Virginia Woolf or the garden designer behind Sissinghurst. Less remembered, on…
April 2, 2015 Five Fascinating Facts About… Winston Graham Compiled by Annabel. 1. Born in 1908 in Manchester, the Graham family moved to Perranporth in Cornwall when Winston was seventeen. He stayed there…
January 27, 2015 Five Fascinating Facts About… Virginia Woolf Written by Simon Thomas We’re featuring a few Virginia Woolf titles in this issue, so it seemed a good time to turn attention to…
January 13, 2015 Five Fascinating Facts About… Anthony Trollope Compiled by Harriet 1. Born in 1815, Trollope had a miserable childhood. His father lost all his money, he was bullied at school, and…
July 28, 2014 Five Fascinating Facts About… Robert Aickman Winkled out by Annabel Gaskell 1. Although we’ve come to know Aickman as an author, he was a prominent conservationist. In 1946, he was…
July 9, 2014 Five Fascinating Facts About… Alexander Pushkin Written by Karen Langley 1. His matrilineal great grandfather was a Black African Page brought over to Russia as a slave. Abram Petrovich Gannibal (1696–1781)…
April 24, 2014 Five Fascinating Facts about Rumer Godden Compiled by Victoria Best As an accompaniment to Harriet’s review of Rumer Godden novels An Episode of Sparrows and The Dark Horse, here are five things you might…
April 17, 2014 Five Fascinating Facts about… Nathanael West Compiled by Oliver Tearle To accompany our review of Daunt Books’ new reprint of Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts, reviewed here, we’ve asked Oliver Tearle to…
