The Big House is a children's book with much to say to adult readers. On one level it is a charmi...

Rich and frank in passions, and rich, too, in the detail which helps to make feigned life seem re...

Naomi Mitchison, daughter of a distinguished scientist, sister of geneticist J B S Haldane, was a...

Naomi Mitchison published her first novel, The Conquered, in 1923. In her more than seventy succe...

'The Bull Calves' was researched and written during the Second World War. This is very surprising...

When Naomi Mitchison, queen of the historical novel, undertook Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, already...

Small Talk... avoids the temptation of a full-blown 'My Life and Times' type of autobiography and...

In this unusual and accomplished novel Naomi Mitchison retells in realistic terms and colloquial ...

Louisa 'Maya' Haldane (1863-1961) was the widow of physiologist John Scott Haldane, and the mothe...

Naomi Mitchison began her novel-writing career in the 1920s, with historical fictions set in the ...

This is Naomi Mitchison's least successful novel, and new readers should not start here! It is sh...

Her touch is sure, her description admirable. The reader gets a whiff of crushed thyme and of dew...