Dr Tony Shaw

Weston Hall near Weedon Lois was home to Sacheverell Sitwell between 1923 and his death in 1988. His sister Edith Sitwell was a frequent vi...

'ROBERT BLOOMFIELD The pastoral Poet who is buried in this churchyard [...] Then bring me nature, bring me sense, And joy ...

'ROBERT HAMNETT 1855–1914 Glossop's first historian and archaeologist lived in the Railway Inn which stood on this sit...

Olivier Delorme's autobiographical novel Le Château du silence didn't initially seem promising to me because of the foreign poli...

As this is Boris Vian, the reader would expect to be thrown into a strange space, but L'Herbe rouge  (translated unsurprisingly as Re...

The title page of this book is interesting in itself, being inscribed by its author Bernard Chambaz to the sports writer for Libér...

Jamila Aït-Abbas (1954—2013) only wrote this book, which is her autobiography: it not only involves details of her enforced marriage, ra...

This is an example of a book you could  read during a coffee break: it ends at page sixty-three, although eight of those pages are taken...

Marie Darrieussecq's second novel,  Naissance des fantômes (1998) (translated into English as My Phantom Husband ), gained a great d...

I'd always believed that it was William Burroughs who said (something like) 'Just because you're paranoid doesn't ...

Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria. Not the most brilliant photo of an author's home I've ever taken, but there we are. The original bu...

Temple Sowerby Manor, Cumbria. O riginally called Acorn Bank, t his building dates from around 1600 but was much renovated in about 1745 ...

After a drunken and near-fatal fall from a building, the writer Sylvain Tesson spent four months recovering. He chose an unconventional f...

It hardly seems possible to mention Guy Mazeline's Les Loups  without also mentioning the fact that Mazeline triumphed in the 1932 Go...