Talking to the Dead: Travels of a Biographer

Publication 5 October 2023

In 2020 Sarah published her group biography of three British writers and their travels to South Africa in the closing days of the Victorian era, Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War, which was shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. Talking to the Dead: Travels of a Biographer covers the five years of her research for and writing of that biography. It is about South Africa then and now and Britain then and now, about imperialism and the beginning of its end, about the biographical process, and also about living with the painful chronic condition of polymyalgia rheumatica. 

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