Biography

I am the (mixed-race) mother of one of the kids from diverse backgrounds that Kate Clanchy nurtured into creating “sometimes luminous” poetry (The...

Margaret Drabble was a bright young star with five novels to her name in 1971, when she was talked into joining her old...

Hunter Biden was a nasty husband. On top of his penchant for addiction and excess, verbal abuse littered his marriage to Kathleen Buhle....

Peter Doherty had, for a period in the mid 00s, the kind of fame that made him recognisable even in silhouette. Like his...

Mya-Rose Craig is a 20-year-old birdwatcher and activist who grew up in a village near Bristol. She has been a birder since birth...

Jeffrey Boakye draws on 15 years of experience as a secondary school teacher to tackle racism and inequality in Britain’s schools. His experience,...

At the end of March, a book that had been condemned to die came back to life. There was no star-studded launch, and...

When Sheila Hancock first sat down to begin writing her new memoir in 2016, the volume in question was intended to be an...

When Australian-born artist Judy Cotton was struck down by Lyme disease in the 1990s – having been bitten by a tick at her...

Floella Benjamin could not have picked a more apt venue for today’s interview. Her new autobiography is called What Are You Doing Here?...