Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle, and the Anglo-Boer War, Hurst Publishers
Publication February 2020
S is for Samora: A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream, Hurst Publishers
‘Vivid and clear-eyed … highly recommended’ — Henning Mankell
‘A cracking biography of the Mozambican dream’ — Zoe Norridge, Independent
In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction
Ebook: SilverWood Books
‘Astute and searching’ — Sunday Times
Ebook: SilverWood Books
‘a magnificent job … imaginative and thoughtful, dense with distilled information … LeFanu offers a skilled visual, intellectual and emotional picture of a complex woman.’ — Diana Souhami, Independent
Dreaming of Rose: A Biographer’s Journal
Ebook and Paperback: SilverWood Books
‘This is such a wise and charming book, giving us a glimpse over the shoulder of a biographer at work … The book becomes a tribute to biography itself, as a quest, as an art, and as the most generous and selfless of literary genres. I’d recommend it to any writer and any biography fan; in fact, I’d recommend it to just about anyone.’ — Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer
