Orlando

Orlando has sometimes been dismissed as a romp. As a less important book than Mrs Dalloway or To the Lighthouse. This is to misread it. It was far ahead of its time in terms of gender politics and gender progress – Jeanette WintersonA brilliant book that teaches you so much about identity and love – all these fundamental questions that we ask ourselves – Emma CorrinI read this book and believed it was a hallucinogenic, interactive biography of my own life and future – Tilda Swinton

Peter Ackroyd (Introducer)

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet, and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River, and London Under. His biographies include studies of figures such as Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin, and Alfred Hitchcock. He has also written a multi-volume history of England. Ackroyd has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.

Margaret Reynolds (Introducer)

Margaret Reynolds is a writer, academic, critic, and broadcaster. Her previous books include The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, The Sappho Companion, and Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. She has also authored a series of study guides on contemporary writers, Vintage Living Texts.

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