Talking to the Dead

Sarah LeFanu's books include 'Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind' (co-editor) (1986), 'In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction' (1988), 'Rose Macaulay: A Biography' (2003) and its companion volume, 'Dreaming of Rose: A Biographer's Journal' (2013 & 2021), 'S is for Samora: A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream' (2012) and 'Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War' (2020), which was shortlisted for the 2021 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography.Throughout the 1980s Sarah was an editor at The Women's Press, and was responsible for their ground-breaking feminist science fiction list. From the 1990s until recently she has been a part-time tutor at the University of Bristol, and she is also an RLF Writing Fellow. From 2004 to 2009 she was Artistic Director of the Bath Literature Festival. She lives in North Somerset, and regularly chairs events for the Bristol Festival of Ideas, the Bristol Women's Literature Festival and the Wells Literature Festival, of which she is an Associate. She blogs on films at www.filmwatchingwomen.wordpress.com.