Writers Write: My Favourite Book 1
Barry Jonsberg This is the first in a series of Guest Posts from some of our finest writers. Today, it’s Barry Jonsberg, the writer of the wonderful ‘The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull’. I first read R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island when I was about eight years...
Talbot Mundy – Adventurous Writer of Adventures
Almost forgotten today, Talbot Mundy was one of the great adventure writers of the first half of the twentieth century. It was fellow bibliophile and curiosity seeker Stephen Bresnehan who put me onto Mundy, sending me a copy of ‘King – of the Khyber Rifles’, a thrashingly good tale...