Labour Party

This novel is the love story of Jane Heriot, but also the story of the shaping of her mind. (In novels, observes Jane, most women have no minds to speak of.) Jane is working as...

AT turns her satire on topical issues (notably, again, the Labour government ) as well as on individuals. This is another novel which engages, tongue-in-cheek as usual, with issues of nationality, imbricated as...

Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...

Beginning as a Labour Government was formed (with Sidney Webb as a member), this contains vivid personal sketches of leading politicians.

MB merges elements of fantasy with autobiography in order to analyse the impact of war on young people. The setting of the story is complicated in that it strives to occupy a space of...

Here she observed, together with her local contacts, the country's impoverished, violent, politically-uncertain climate. She deepened her friendship with Lilo Linke , a young woman she had first met at the Labour Party Conference held...

Dora was scheduled to visit Russia with Bertrand Russell . Just before their planned departure he was invited to join a Labour delegation, and Dora travelled mainly on her own. While in Moscow she made...