Secret Gardens - Hardcover

Carpenter, Humphrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0048090220 ISBN 13: 9780048090225

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 1985

Synopsis

Secret Gardens

About this title

About the Author:

Humphrey Carpenter was born and educated in Oxford, and attended the Dragon School and Keble College. He was a well-known biographer and children's writer, and worked previously as a producer at the BBC. He wrote biographies of J. R. R. Tolkien, W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Ezra Pound, C. S. Lewis and Dennis Potter. Among his many books for children were the best-selling Mr Majeika series. He also wrote several plays for the theatre and radio. A keen musician, he was a member of a 1930s-style jazz band, Vile Bodies, which was resident at the Ritz Hotel in London for a number of years. He died in 2005.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0048090220
• ISBN 13: 9780048090225
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272