Julia Blackburn is the author of THE EMPEROR'S LAST ISLAND, DAISY BATES IN THE DESERT (shortlisted for the Waterstones/Esquire Award) and THE BOOK OF COLOUR. She has two children and lives in Suffolk
Julia Blackburn has written five books of non-fiction - Charles Waterton, The Emperor's Last Island, Daisy Bates in the Desert, Old Man Goya and The Three of Us, which won the 2009 J. R. Ackerley Award. She has also written an autobiography, Twin Paths and With Billie - a family memoir; and two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper's Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the author of seventeen short stories specially commisioned by BBC Radio, a selection of which were published in My Animals and Other Family, and four radio plays, including The Spellbound Horses.
As beautifully written and as profoundly researched as all Julia
Blackburn's work
*Spectator*
A remarkable evocation of another time and another frame of
reference
*Daily Telegraph*
Julia Blackburn has an extraordinary talent for thinking herlsef
into other worlds... Reading her book, you experience the uncanny
sensation that you have somehow always known these places
*Evening Standard*
She wears her talents like a modern Renaissance woman with elegance
and affable ease
*The Times*
As beautifully written and as profoundly researched as all Julia
Blackburn's work * Spectator *
A remarkable evocation of another time and another frame of
reference * Daily Telegraph *
Julia Blackburn has an extraordinary talent for thinking herlsef
into other worlds... Reading her book, you experience the uncanny
sensation that you have somehow always known these places * Evening
Standard *
She wears her talents like a modern Renaissance woman with elegance
and affable ease * The Times *
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