Nicholas Shakespeare
Nicholas Shakespeare was one of Granta‘s Best of Young British Novelists in 1993. He has written for Granta on Abimael Guzman, Martha Gellhorn and Tasmania, the background to his most recent novel, Secrets of the Sea. He is also the author of a biography Bruce Chatwin, and is currently preparing an edition of Chatwin’s letters.
Nicholas Shakespeare on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Martha Gellhorn
Nicholas Shakespeare
‘What clipped the wings of her fiction and grounded her imagination was precisely what made her soar as a journalist.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
The White Hole of Bombay
Nicholas Shakespeare
‘If you like people who hate each other, it’s paradise.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Kemp and Potter
Nicholas Shakespeare
‘By coming to Tasmania, I'd repeated the pattern of an ancient, unknown relative and the discovery pleased me in a profound and mysterious way.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
Wavery’s Last Post
Nicholas Shakespeare
‘At five in the afternoon, the Bahia de Abyla sailed out of Algeciras.‘
Art & Photography | Issue 23
In Pursuit of Guzmán
Nicholas Shakespeare
‘They called him Presidente Gonzalo, but his name was Abimael Guzmán. I had come to Lima to find Guzmán, although I knew I wouldn't succeed.’