Bernard Sharratt

Bernard Sharratt was born in Liverpool in 1944, graduated from Cambridge in 1968, wrote a PhD on working class history, was an editor of 'Slant', helped set up a UK Film Studies degree in the 1970s, the first UK Psychoanalytic Studies MA in the 1980s, and an innovative hands-on multimedia Computing / Humanities degree program also in the 1980s. He has worked in steel factories and a wine cellar, as a gardener and a bricklayer, reviewed poetry for the 'Tablet' and general books for the 'New York Times', lectured in India, Turkey, Poland, the West Indies, the USA, etc., and is currently Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of English, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. He has published proper books, 'Reading Relations' in 1982 and 'The Literary Labyrinth' in 1984, but in arthritic retirement has decided to have fun publishing his accumulated and idiosyncratic writings. He apologises for any slack proof-reading and pleads the arthritis as an excuse.His latest maverick work is 'Considering Canterbury Cathedral' - which is definitely not a standard guide-book, or a religious tract. On the contrary. A little long, perhaps, at a leisurely 900-odd pages in 3 vols.. Very easy to read, though. And cheap.