Geoffrey Moorhouse

Geoffrey Moorhouse has been acclaimed as ‘a brilliant historian’ (Dirk Bogarde, DAILY TELEGRAPH) and ‘a writer whose gifts are beyond category’ (Jan Morris, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY). He wrote over twenty books, on subjects ranging from travel and spirituality to cricket and rugby league. In 1982 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His TO THE FRONTIER won the Thomas Cook Award for the best travel book of 1984. More recently he concentrated on Tudor history, notably with THE PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE and, in 2005, GREAT HARRY’S NAVY. He died in November 2009.