Giles Gordon

From the beginning BH sounded defensive about this work, fearing it might be hard to place. Sure enough, both Giles Gordon and Hilary Rubinstein , her agent at the time, felt it was...

Success as a novelist did not put a stop to BH 's shorter and more topical writings. Soon after finishing Maru she was writing for the New African about singer Miriam Makeba 's music and...

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...

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

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...