Our authors are a busy bunch! Here’s what they have been up to:
1. Interview with Madoc Roberts: ‘the author who uncovered a WW2 double agent’
The life of WW2 double agent, Arthur Owens, codename SNOW, continues to fascinate, particularly the revelation that Owens’s daughter was a Hollywood actress. In this interview author Madoc discusses how important Owens was to the war effort. His conclusion: very important!
2. Kerri Sackville on ‘paractivites’
Paractivities, you say, with a puzzled gaze? They’re those things you do, without really doing them. Still confused? Let Kerri, author of When My Husband Does The Dishes (He Usually Wants Sex!), explain the complexities of paracooking, parashopping, paraparenting and, gulp, parasexing...
3. Review of Outside In at Tribune Magazine
Peter Hain’s Outside In got another glowing review, this time at Tribune Magazine, who were particularly impressed by Peter’s recollection of his fight against apartheid in South Africa: ‘This part of his story is a breathtaking read and explains why he arrived in Britain, aged 16, with no return ticket, stripped of his South African citizenship, and with a burning fire in his heart, determined to do his bit to bring apartheid to an end. He got off the plane knowing no one, with no connections and no influence, and yet, within four years, he was at the eye of the storm'.
4. Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher analyse recent by-election results
Professors Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, authors of many a fascinating Biteback book on elections (Local Elections Handbook 2010 and 2011, Election 2010 and British Electoral Facts), deliver expert analysis on by-election results, with ‘mixed fortunes for the Liberal Democrats’ a focus of discussion.
5. Timothy Spall on Bram Stoker...
It takes a lot to be as respected an actor as Timothy Spall. Who else could play a rat-villain-traitor-missing-a-finger...thing, called Scabbers, with such gusto? Very few, that’s who. I was pleasantly surprised, then, to hear that Timothy’s most prized possession is ‘A silver-tipped cane that belonged to Bram Stoker’. I can only assume that he will be reading Dacre Stoker and Elizabeth Miller’s The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker to find out more about the man behind the cane.