Claire is commissioned by Viking Penguin in the UK and Alfred A Knopf in the US to write a major new biography of Charlotte Brontë for the author's bicentenary in 2016
Times Literary Supplement, 10 February 2012: 'What an amazing man!' , review of The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Jenny Hartley.
Evening Standard, 5 January 2012: 'A Gay Man's Love for a Straight Friend', review of Jack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund White.
Literary Review, December 2011-January 2012: 'Tying the Windsor Knots': review of The Court Journals of Frances Burney, vols 1 and 2.
Times Literary Supplement, 1 December 2011: Books of the Year - the centenary edition of Elizabeth Bishop's Poems and Prose.
Evening Standard, 18 November 2011: Books of the Year - How to Survive the Titanic by Frances Wilson and The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
Evening Standard, 27 October 2011: 'The Best to Pick Up Austen's Pen', review of Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D.James
Notting Hill Editions Journal, 13 October 2011: 'The Real Jane Austen'
read this article in The Huffington Post
Literary Review, October 2011: 'Kidnapped', review of Arthur Ransome's Long-Lost Study of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Kirsty Nichol Findlay
Evening Standard, 15 September 2011, 'A Brummie's lifelong vision of beauty', review of Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy
Evening Standard, 28 July 2011, 'Notes from the Asylum', review of Medical Muses: Hysteria in 19th Century Paris by Asti Hustvedt
Literary Review, July 2011: 'Island Records', review of Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox and the Creation of a Myth by Katherine Frank
Evening Standard, 16 June 2011: 'The Sore Trial of Being Mrs Oscar', review of Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde by Franny Moyle
Blackwell Podcast number 30, March 2010:- two-part interview with George Miller about Jane's Fame
25 March 2010 - NPR's Morning Edition
1 October 2009 - Oxford Times
April 2009 - interview with Mark Thwaite at The Book Depository
April 2009 - podcast interview with Peter Cox on Litopia.com
The Warwick Review, September 2011: short story, 'Poor Maggie Kirkpatrick'.
Published on 4 February 2011 by Picador, New York
US paperback edition of Jane's Fame
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