Geoffrey Clarke Associates: 5 books

There is no excuse needed for basing this biography of Sir Henry Rider Haggard on the personal account of his literary life given in his own words in his autobiography, The Days of My Life.  There can be no truer biography than that given by the first hand witness, the author himself.  Of course,...

This novel is a work of ‘faction’, that means it is a combination of fact and fiction.  Any similarity to incidents, events, famous personalities, or places in this book is either intentional, or otherwise haphazardly the product of the author’s imagination, so to speak.  Resemblances to actual...

The aim of this book is to define the nature of literary collaboration by authors in the mediation and production of the novel of masculine action in the period 1880-1905.  Collaboration in texts is a very interesting problematic that becomes more marked in the late-Victorian period.  I have analysed...

The ‘Azan’, the call to prayer, invites worshippers in London to the mosque at Brick Lane and Regent’s Park, at Finsbury Park and Willesden, at Walthamstow Central and Cricklewood, and the faithful troop in for the evening prayers, cowering from the fog, rain and mist.  Once inside, they...

This Memoir is a work of fiction.  Any similarity to events,characters or places in this book is either fictional, or the product of the author’s imagination.  Any resemblance to actual persons either dead or alive is purely unintentional. There cannot be a fixed idea of a person's...