Malachi Whitaker

Malachi Whitaker's memoir, And So Did I, was recently reprinted by Boiler House Press. Individual stories are available in anthologies, including The Book of Bradford (2025) and Stories for Lovers (2026). But The Journey Home (Persephone) is the only collection of Whitaker's fiction in print.

The women published by Persephone Books. Malachi Whitaker is 4th from left, on bottom row.

The Journey Home & Other Stories (2017; foreword by Philip Hensher) is the only work of Whitaker's fiction currently in print.

Thanks to Persephone for the image & for publishing Malachi 💛 💛 💛

'Amaryllis'
Piet Mondrian, 1910, watercolour

'Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel' Biographers in Conversation interview with Mark Hussey is live!

'Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel'
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Malachi Whitaker's And So Did I goes stateside!

In the window (bottom left) of Phinney Books, Seattle. On the occasion of Boiler House Editor Brad Bigelow's presentation of his new biography of Virginia Faulkner (with a display of beautiful books from @bhousepress.bsky.social)
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W.H. Smith bookshop, Victoria station, Manchester, 1925.

Excellent choices, if we may say so! ❤️

Malachi Whitaker's list of influential authors include her favourite Brontë sister, Emily.

"Wuthering Heights for inward physical passion. I mean Emily Brontë, some poems, force behind marrow channel."

The brief notes in a 1948 letter describe Brontë's powerful impact on her inner life and work.

Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘Missel Thrush’, 1937
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Anita Brookner

Exciting news for Anita Brookner fans! #BookSky 💙📚

Hermione Lee’s biography, ANITA BROOKNER: ART & LIFE, is due to be published on 10th September 2026. Details here:

www.penguin.co.uk/books/445930...

Thank you @heavenalibooks.bsky.social

We hope you enjoy it!
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"When Cathy says: “I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills,” she articulates a truth that resonates with me deeply."

Spot on article by Anjelika May in The Guardian

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Last night I started reading a rather lovely little book. And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker, a kind of mix of memoir and journal. First published in 1939, and reissued by Boiler House Press. @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social 📚💙

Thanks Sairish Hussain and Silver Star Reads ✨

Spotted in Bradford Waterstones 🤍

Bottom left:
Malachi Whitaker's The Journey Home (Persephone, 2017) & And So Did I (Boiler House Press, 2025).

In the company of:
Emily Brontë, JB Priestley, Sairish Hussain, AA Dhand & more.

Bradford writing rocks! 🪨 ❤️ 🪨

The documentary (How to Build a Library) about reinventing the Nairobi MacMillan Memorial Library was one of the best things on the programme @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social in 2025.

The documentary deserves wider distribution. Great to see this project getting some love. ❤️

Thanks. I'll be in touch soon.

Yes! Thanks for letting me know who you are! I'd love to contact you sometime, if that is possible? (Valerie Waterhouse)

Little Atoms 954 - Francesca Wade's Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife | Little Atoms

On this week's Little Atoms podcast, Francesca Wade on her brilliant new biography Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife. Out now from @faberbooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you find your podcasts or via this link:

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❤️ Intelligent stories for Valentine's day (& not only) by the likes of Virginia Woolf & Malachi Whitaker! ❤️

British Library Women Writers series @blpublishing.bsky.social

Malachi Whitaker's 1st book, Frost in April, was sold at WH Smith stall, Bradford Forster Sq Station, in 1929. JB Priestley's Good Companions came out the same year. The stallholder, a friend, repositioned JBP's 'By a local author' labels to advertise Malachi's book.

Did the stall look like this?

Tennyson was young once A new biography of the formative years of the Victorian poet illuminates an unparalleled historical moment of vulnerability and wonder.

My review of The Boundless Deep, Richard Holmes' biography of the young Tennyson, a man struggling with familial demons and both excited and terrified by the implications of geological and astronomical science. Thanks as always to @engelsbergideas.bsky.social. engelsbergideas.com/reviews/tenn...

Fabulous biography of the great man

'Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark' is live!
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'Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife'
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Artists, Siblings, Visionaries by Judith Mackrell review – the remarkable lives of Gwen and Augustus John Gwen’s talent vastly outshone her brother’s – but both are treated with subtlety in this outstanding dual biography

"Biography can be a glib genre." What a glib remark!

But Judith Mackrell's biography of Gwen and Augustus John has been long listed for the 2026 Women's Prize. And it sounds magnificent!

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Dorset to unveil statue of feminist writer and LGBTQ+ pioneer – and a cat Tribute to Sylvia Townsend Warner follows campaign to nominate overlooked women

Oh now, this is wonderful www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Speaking about Malachi Whitaker to the highly-engaged attendees @litcamb.bsky.social was one of the highlights of my quest to bring Whitaker's brilliant writing to public attention. Thank you for the opportunity. (Valerie) ❤️

Mitchell Alcrim writes about Clare Harman’s book about Katherine Mansfield on our Blog page.
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/news/alcrim-km

And join us for our new course on Katherine Mansfield: Love Stories, live online, 19 March-20 April 2026.
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/km-course-26