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Gyles Brandreth

Biography

Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster and former politician. His many books include the bestselling poetry anthology, DANCING BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON, and the international bestseller about spelling and punctuation, HAVE YOU EATEN GRANDMA? In the 1980s, Gyles Brandreth wrote a play about the Milne family during which he became friends with the real Christopher Robin and his wife, Lesley, and began to discover the complex story of Christopher Robin’s parents. Brandreth is also the founder of the award winning teddy bear museum at Newby Hall, The Bear House.

Gyles Brandreth

Books by Gyles Brandreth

Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear: A. A. Milne and the Creation of "Winnie-the-Pooh"
by Gyles Brandreth - Biography, Nonfiction

SOMEWHERE, A BOY AND A BEAR tells the remarkable story of A. A. Milne, a playwright, a bestselling crime writer, a poet, a polemicist, a humorist, and the man who created Winnie-the-Pooh. Gyles Brandreth explores Winnie-the-Pooh, a bear beloved by millions: his genesis, his life across a hundred years, his special philosophy, and the reasons for his worldwide popularity. Brandreth’s book is also the intimate biography of three generations of the fascinating and troubled Milne family, which knew fame and fortune, despising both for a time, but a family that ultimately found a profound reason to be grateful for the riches Pooh brought them.

Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders
by Gyles Brandreth - Fiction, Historical Mystery

In 1892 an exhausted Arthur Conan Doyle retires to a spa in Germany with a suitcase of fan mail. The first person he encounters is Oscar Wilde, and then the two friends make a series of macabre discoveries among the letters—a finger, a lock of hair, and, finally, an entire severed hand. The trail leads to Rome...