William S. Burroughs

Although she was against censorship, RW objected to literature with no redeeming moral value. She left the Festival after four days, disgusted with its exaltation of homosexuality of the vulgarest sort, pornography, and drug-taking...

This was her last novel published by Raleigh Trevelyan of Michael Joseph —who was, she believed, fired with a golden handshake for accepting it. Her choice of title was over-ruled because her publisher mistakenly...

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...

Throughout this work SJ glosses over such events as marriage, divorce, and illness in favour of examining her psychology and behaviour, her struggle to balance motherhood and a public career, the value of creative writing...