NEWS
28 January 2025 – Front Row (Radio 4); Claire in conversation with Gill Hornby and Nick Ahad about the BBC dramatisation of Gill’s novel Miss Austen. Click to listen on BBC Sounds
November 2024 – Claire in conversation with Chris Power, Lucy Caldwell and Chris Mourant in a special edition of Radio 4’s Open Book devoted to Katherine Mansfield. Click to go to Iplayer
December 2023 – All Sorts of Lives is named Sunday Times Literary Book of the Year 2023, one of Waterstone’s Best Books of 2023 and The Independent’s 25 Best Books of the Year.
11 January 2024 – paperback publication of All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything. Click to go to page.
5 January 2023 – publication of a companion volume, Wild Places, a new selection of Katherine Mansfield’s stories to celebrate her centenary. Foreword by Helen Simpson and introduction and selection by CH. Both books are published by Chatto & Windus and have beautiful art work by Laura Gee.
RECENT JOURNALISM
Times Literary Supplement, 16 May 2025: ‘Our secret friend’, review of Living with Jane Austen by Janet Todd – click to go to page
Times Literary Supplement, 14 February 2025: ‘Small Explosions’, review of The Position of Spoons by Deborah Levy – click to read
Literary Review, February 2025: ‘Great Affectations’, review of Dickens the Enchanter by Peter Conrad – click to read
Literary Review, December 2024: ‘Postmark Amherst’, review of The Letters of Emily Dickinson – click to read
Times Literary Supplement, 15 November 2024; TLS Books of the Year – click to read
Literary Review, September 2024: ‘Handbags and Handcuffs’ – review of The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective by Sara Lodge – click to read
Times Literary Supplement, 26 January 2024: ‘Once and Future: continuing the revival of Sylvia Townsend Warner’ – review of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s T.H.White and Winter in the Air – click to read
INTERVIEWS
1 May 2024 – interviewed by Catalina Ronzon for Palatinate: ‘All Sorts of Merit: Celebrating Durham’s Professor Claire Harman’ – click to read
6 January 2023 – interviewed by Jessie Thompson for the Independent – click to read
October 2016 – Chawton House Conversations podcast, on Charlotte Bronte
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June 2016 – on BBC Arts from the Hay Festival
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28 September 2015, Claire is interviewed by Susannah Herbert for the Forward Prize archive
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