Dennis Hamley

Dennis's first novel, Pageants of Despair, was published in 19074. He read English at Jesus College, Cambridge, and has a PhD from Leicester. After teaching, lecturing and acting as County English Advisor for Hertfordshire, he retired to write full-time.
 

He has written widely for children and young adults; one of his best-known books, The War and Freddy, was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize. His recent adult novel, The Second Person from Porlock, is a fantasy riff on the chaotic life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and was published in 2021. Dennis joins us with a reissue of his highly-acclaimed novel Spirit of the Place. He lives in Oxford with his wife Kay, an artist.