Ensconced in the Borders, Massie had a limitless capacity for work, his non-fiction subjects ranging from Muriel Spark to Scottish Rugby
Ensconced in the Borders, Massie had a limitless capacity for work, his non-fiction subjects ranging from Muriel Spark to Scottish Rugby
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After losing a fortune he recouped it through writing, and waged a vociferous campaign against the EU on the Daily Telegraph…
A connoisseur of the offbeat, he interviewed the last human cannonball and wrote a superb biography of the eccentric poet RS…
With bucolic Cotswolds settings her Mitchell and Markby novels became million-sellers, feeding the global appetite for gentle…
He despised racism, fox hunting, organised religion, the Royal family, homophobia, cyclists, recycling, the BBC licence fee and…
His childhood was one of ‘no books and not much conversation’ and his school report said: ‘Allan is most inattentive and dreamy…
Half-Burmese, he had a ‘buried sense of apartness from England’ which made him a sharp observer of its subcultures
