Giles Gordon

The book finished, the process of publication unexpectedly spun out into a nightmare. Trouble began when BH requested 94 free copies for her to give, as she had promised, to the people she interviewed. Reg Davis-Poynter

Meanwhile Giles Gordon well-meaningly but rashly raised with BH the question of her tax situation in Botswana. The publishers came up with a complicated arrangement to keep costs down, whereby Bateleur Press would be the...

This takes the story of her life until her twenty-first birthday, treating herself (says critic Giles Gordon ) rather severely.

About half of these nineteen very short stories (averaging less than ten pages apiece) are reprinted from magazines—Stand, the Irish Tatler, Writing Women, London Magazine—or anthologies. Short Days, Long Nights...

Set in an unnamed town, which is clearly Brighton, the novel is, as Giles Gordon describes it, a Graham Greene thriller as if reworked by a somewhat romantic Burroughs . The first sentence—the...

Cadmore is a teacher with brilliant credentials, and a visual artist whose drawings give dignity and value to ordinary life in the remote village of Dilepe and its oppressed and victimized people. She is also...

In August 1980 BH submitted to Giles Gordon , who was once again her agent, six stories all linked to her historical research, though separate in their creation and in their subsequent fate. One of...

Giles Gordon had suggested she write a village book of the genre of Jan Myrdal's Report from a Chinese Village or Ronald Blythe 's Akenside. She would need, he said, to impose a...