Introduction from Val McDermid Academic endorsements from Profs Gerard Carruthers, and Ian Brown. Full UK publicity campaign.
Jennifer Morag Henderson has had articles, short stories and poems published in magazines and anthologies, including Riptide (Two Ravens Press), Northwords Now, The Dalhousie Review, Gutter, by the BBC and others. As a playwright her work has been performed for the National Theatre of Scotland’s Five Minute Theatre project, and elsewhere. She holds an MA in English Language and Sociology from the University of Glasgow, and a Graduate degree from Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
‘The biographer reveals the moving story of Elizabeth MacKintosh’s
life with tact and superior investigative tenacity.’
*The Wall Street Journal*
‘Jennifer Morag Henderson presents us with an intelligent,
industrious and interesting woman who knew her own mind. She has
written a sympathetic, well-researched biography...’
*The Times Literary Supplement*
‘The playwright and author Jennifer Morag Henderson has taken on
the Alan Grant mythbuster role and written a full-length biography,
the first of Tey to appear.’
*The Telegraph, Best Books of 2016*
‘It strips away a lot of the myth surrounding Mackintosh; and it
also tells the moving story of a major leading Scots writer for
whom the detective novel became “a medium as disciplined as any
sonnet”.’
*The Observer, Best Biographies of 2015*
‘The life of one of the great golden age crime writers is granted a
forensic examination in Josephine Tey.’
*The Independent, Best Crime Books of 2015*
‘Her biography is scrupulously researched, narrated with sympathy
and full of information previously not readily available. It reads
like a labour of love.’
*Literary Review*
‘In Henderson's loving, meticulously-researched book we have a
first and vital account of that life...hugely valuable to anyone
who cares about the story of writing in Scotland, what it has been,
how it has changed, and where it may go next.’
*The Scotsman*
‘This is the first biography of Josephine Tey and Henderson
goes through the few facts of Mackintosh’s life with a forensic
thoroughness and finds no secrets lurking. Henderson here pays
important tribute to a mind boiling with creativity that came to
fruition in the ordered habits of a quiet life.’
*The Oldie*
‘Henderson is an Invernessian herself and she seems to take
MacKintosh’s neglect personally. In the age of Google-aided,
instant biography it’s a pleasure to read one that is the product
of time, care and passion.’
*The National*
‘A book which, by foregrounding the life and work of a writer who
should never have been neglected, deserves the widest of
readership.’
*Andrew Hook, Scottish Review*
‘...becomes at a stroke the definitive volume.’
*Barry Forshaw, Crime Time*
‘Sterling, superb, and all manner of superlatives -- this book is a
must-read for anyone even remotely interested in Josephine Tey.
Henderson has done an invaluable service to Tey fans everywhere
through her meticulous research...there's so much here about this
woman's life that frankly, if you're a Tey reader, you will not
want to miss a single word.’
*Crime Segments*
‘Absorbing first biography of the crime and mystery writer.’
*The Bookseller*
‘This is an interesting read and it was good to add some meat to
the bones of this elusive writer.’
*Crime Squad*
‘[Tey] was in danger of being forgotten before the publication of a
new and comprehensive account of her life and work.’
*Celtic Connection*
‘Jennifer Morag Henderson's is the first full biography of this
enigmatic and original writer. Painstakingly researched, Henderson
is keen to place Tey firmly in the canon of modern Scottish
literature, a status never given to her in life.’
*Ricardian Bulletin, magazine of the Richard III Society*
‘A much needed biography of one of the great mystery writers of the
twentieth century. ‘Josephine Tey’ is also a well-kept secret in
Scottish Literature: a forensic stylist and the most elegant of
minds.’
*Professor Gerard Carruthers, University of Glasgow*
‘This biography by Jennifer Morag Henderson is to be warmly
welcomed and will be read eagerly by anyone curious about Josephine
Tey, modern theatre, crime genre fiction, women’s writing, or
Scottish literature, in all its multi-faceted complexity.’
*Professor Alan Riach, Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow*
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