'Perhaps she did not die,' said Halla, 'perhaps her nurse turned into a bear and carried her away...

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...

On February 24th, 1934- shortly after the civil war in Austria and the defeat of the Socialists -...

Ancient Greek history and politics fascinated Naomi Mitchison, and in particular the long antagon...

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

The writing career of Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999) stretched over some seventy years, encompassing...

The Delicate Fireillustrates a fundamental change in Naomi Mitchison's work.The early stories are...

Anna Comnena is described as the first female historian, the author of her father's celebratory b...

The Conqueredwas young Naomi Mitchison's first novel, published in 1923, just five years after th...

Early in Orcadia was first published in 1987, and consists of five stories, set hundreds of years...

'We story-tellers have a delightful time playing with history, perhaps finding something fascinat...

This collection, which Naomi Mitchison published in 1957, is recognisably a 'Carradale book', con...

In 1957, Naomi Mitchison enjoyed two months 'of observation and thought' as she travelled in part...

Naomi Mitchison's account of the life and work of the Afrikaner lawyer and political activist Bra...

In his 1999 Introduction to the first reprint of this novel from 1955 - a year of the Cold War th...

Naomi Mitchison had travelled to India in 1951 and to Madras (Chennai) in 1958, after which she v...

In 1983, at the age of 86, Naomi Mitchison published Not By Bread Alone. Sixty years had passed s...

African Heroes, published in 1968, contains: The Kings Beyond the Desert; The Story of the Emir o...

This volume brings together the stories and poems from When the Bough Breaks, published in 1924, ...

This volume contains the short stories and poems from What Do you Think Yourself?, published in 1...

This volume brings together the stories from Barbarian Stories, published in 1929, The Hostages (...

During the second half of the Twentieth Century, Mitchison wrote a succession of books for younge...

During the second half of the Twentieth Century, Mitchison wrote a succession of books for younge...

During the second half of the Twentieth Century, Mitchison wrote a succession of books for younge...

During the second half of the Twentieth Century, Mitchison wrote a succession of books for younge...

During the second half of the Twentieth Century, Mitchison wrote a number of books for younger re...

Naomi Mitchison spent many years visiting, then living with, the Bakgatla of Botswana. During tha...

In her lifetime, Naomi Mitchison wrote over two hundred and fifty pieces of fiction which can be ...

'If I had been told that I would get into a position where, in common with 30,000 other people, I...

Naomi Mitchison travelled extensively outside Britain, writing freely about her adventures and tr...

The British know nothing about Botswana because it seldom gets a mention in the press; and becaus...

This volume covers from 1935 to 1993, over a wide range of topics. Often serious, with passion, s...

Naomi Mitchison was born in Edinburgh, and from at least the late 1930s onwards she was not only ...

With almost seven hundred articles included in this series, it is not surprising to learn that po...

Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999) wrote, during her long life, in more or less every genre one could na...

Among over eighty articles in this volume are Mitchison's earliest known published non-fiction, h...

Introduced by Naomi Mitchison. Set over two thousand years ago on the calm and fertile shores of ...