Horace de Vere Cole is not a name that many people are likely to recognise, but nor was John Harrison before Dava Sobel’s biography, Longitude, brought the eighteenth-century horologist to worldwide attention. So it can be done, and it looks very much as though Martyn Downer and the Black Spring Press are trying to rekindle the same public excitement that made Longitude a runaway bestseller in 1996.

Literary Review

May 2010

Categories

Alexander Waugh

Whiffs of Wilde

The Book We Have Been Crying Out for

We Mean It, Ma’am

Where There’s a Will There’s a Waugh

Caught in the Spotlight

An Unusually Gifted Composer

Paperback Blighters

The Chippy Composer

Music And Madness

The Man Behind the Miracles

The Lady In Black

Nanny Knows Best

The Poisoned Chalice of Choice

The Adventures of Lady Satin Tights

How Weird was Wallis?

Ménage à Quatre

Spheres of Influence

Rites of Passage

Nightmare on Grub Street

A History of Helios

A Class Apart

Authors Awake!

Richer Sounds

The Pied Piper Effect