Graham Lord

Graham Lord has published seven acclaimed biographies, an autobiographical portrait of Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and eight novels – four of which were described by the London Guardian as “metaphysical thrillers.”

He has also published five short stories and his books have been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Russian and Chinese.

Born in 1943 in Southern Rhodesia and also educated in what is now Zimbabwe, he was raised in Mozambique, took an honours degree in History at Cambridge, edited the university newspaper Varsity and joined the Sunday Express in London, where he spent 23 years as Literary Editor, wrote a weekly column about books and interviewed almost every major English language author of the 1960s to 1990s, from P. G. Wodehouse and Graham Greene to Muriel Spark and Ruth Rendell. In 1987 he launched the £20,000 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and after leaving the Sunday Express in 1992 wrote regularly for The Daily Telegraph, The Times and the Daily Mail and from 1994 to 1996 edited the short story magazine Raconteur.

Lord has two daughters, lives in the West Indies and the South of France with a beautiful artist, Juliet Lewis, and is writing a novel.