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Walter Mockton Publisher: Sinclair Stevenson Year: 1991 I also substantially redrafted the late H. Montgomery Hyde’s final biography. Purchase book Download free sample

Half a Millionare Publisher: A. J. Manson Ltd Year: 1999 I substantially redrafted Bob Freeman’s autobiography. Purchase book Download free sample

Good-bye to All That by Robert Graves Publisher: Berghahn Year: 1995 It was in 1957 that a middle-aged Robert Graves totally revised the text of his classic autobiography, robbing it of the painfully raw edge that had helped to make it an international bestseller. By cutting out all references to Riding, by deleting passages which…

Robert Graves and The White Goddess (1940-1985) Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Year: 1995 Still in print in the UK and available in the USA. Purchase book Download free sample

Robert Graves: The Years With Laura (1926-1940) Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Year: 1990 (Viking Penguin, 1990; Papermac, 1991; Penguin paperback in the USA and Canada, 1992; also translated into Spanish) In print as a Weidenfeld & Nicolson paperback until recently, but I am told it’s no longer available. Purchase book Download free sample

Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic (1895-1926) Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Year: 1986 Viking Penguin, 1986; Papermac, 1987; Penguin paperback in the USA and Canada, 1990; Weidenfeld & Nicolson paperback, 1995) I embarked upon an epic task of nineteenth-century proportions – a three-volume life of my late uncle Robert Graves. First to appear was The Assault…

Changing Perceptions: The Poets of the Great War Publisher: Cecil Woolf Year: 2005 During the spring and summer of 2005, after an approach from a Publisher Cecil Woolf, I worked up one of my most successful lectures into a thin volume. Purchase book Download free sample

A. E. Housman: The Scholar-Poet Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul Year: 1983 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979; Scribner, New York, 1980; Oxford University Press paperback, 1980) Some, notably Philip Larkin, gave The Brothers Powys a warm welcome; others thought it was a waste of time writing about the Powyses – indeed, the reviewer in The…

Richard Hughes Publisher: Andre Deutsch Year: 1994 Richard Hughes (1900-1976) combined in one lifetime the roles of dashing adventurer, famous popular author, reclusive sage, and even for a time that of a single cog in a vast bureaucratic machine. His first play appeared on the London stage while he was still an undergraduate at Oxford…

The Brothers Powys Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Year: 1983 Charles Powys’s eleven children form one of the most remarkable literary families of mordern times. Three of the family have won enduring fame: John Cowpoer Powys, author of A Glastonbury Romance; Theodore Francis Powys, author of Mr. Weston’s Good Wine; and Llewelyn Powys, author of…