Watch out for Richard’s thoughts on whether memoir is cathartic in the next issue of the Society of Authors Author magazine.
Richard will be talking with Ian Marchant about his fabulous book One Fine Day at Magic Books in Wendover on 23rd April
Richard Beard on Harold Pinter’s 250-word cricket book, The Catch, now available online as an editor’s choice at The Nightwatchman: Read the full article here.
For as long as boarding school survivors govern Britain, they will inflict their own pain on the nation. New Statesman, 12 March 2024 Charles Spencer has a memoir out, and famously, when given a pulpit, Charles Spencer tells it like it is. His new book, A Very Private School, is about his experience in the […]
Becoming Prime Minister wasn’t the first significant position Sunak was handed – Winchester College taught him a thing or two about prestige without power, writes Richard Beard Byline Times, March 2024 Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak was identified by the Conservative Party as the safest available pair of hands. He was a Prime Minister who could […]
Richard Beard savours every word The Nightwatchman, autumn 2023 In 2003, a short book, a very short book, was published by Evergreen Press entitled The Catch. The book’s only reviewer Stephen Moss, in Bodyline Books: Catalogue of Cricket Literature, says it took him about a minute and a half to read. I’m not sure what […]
A prehistoric literary hoax brought to light Times Literary Supplement, March 2023 Can there ever be enough poets? Evidently not, because more get invented all the time. In the eighteenth century alone, teenager Thomas Chatterton “discovered” the work of the fifteenth-century monk Thomas Rowley, while James MacPherson “translated” – to great acclaim – an epic […]
By speaking out in his autobiography, Spare, Harry challenges a repressed institution that traduced his grief and demanded his mute compliance. New Statesman, January 2023 In extracts leaked from his autobiography, Spare, Prince Harry reminds his readers that when his mother was killed in a car crash he was in a different country and only […]
Simon Kuper’s book Chums tells the story of how one university taught the core of today’s Brexit government how to achieve power – but not how to use it. New Statesman, April 2022 Welcome to the “chumocracy”, in England a modern word but an ancient notion. Early in the 19th century the radical pamphleteer William […]
Author Richard Beard, who was sent to an English private school in the same year as Boris Johnson, explores why the politician’s time there explains his destructive approach to leading the country. Byline Times, December 2021 Before the English private education system turned him into ‘Boris’, Alexander Johnson attended the European School in Brussels. My […]
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