Author: Naomi Mitchison

Naomi Mitchison published The Blood of the Martyrs in October 1939, just a month after the outbreak of the Second World War. The novel marks a retu...

Ancient Greek history and politics fascinated Naomi Mitchison, and in particular the long antagonism or rivalry of Athens and Sparta. In this, her ...

Introduced by Naomi Mitchison. Set over two thousand years ago on the calm and fertile shores of the Black Sea, Naomi Mitchison's The Corn King and...

An enchanting collection that introduces the author and activist Naomi Mitchison to a new generation of readersThe Fourth Pig, originally published...

In her post nuclear Holocaust world, overpopulation and feeding the people are the major problems. The third attempted Solution involves conditione...

Naomi Mitchison, daughter of a distinguished scientist, sister of geneticist J B S Haldane, was always interested in the sciences, especially genet...

The Big House is a children's book with much to say to adult readers. On one level it is a charming and absorbing fantasy novel with a fairy hill, ...

The Delicate Fire illustrates a fundamental change in Naomi Mitchison's work. The early stories are set in ancient Greece, like many before them....

Eschewing Plutarch and Shakespeare's tale of Mark Antony's fatal romance, Naomi Mitchison's 'Cleopatra's People' starts with the next generation, w...

This is Naomi Mitchison's least successful novel, and new readers should not start here! It is shaped by her own life and fears in her own experien...

The Bull Calves was researched and written during the Second World War. This is very surprising, as Naomi Mitchison was tremendously busy at her ho...