The Goldster Magazine Show with Lucinda

Andrew Lycett is an acclaimed author and journalist, best known for his critically acclaimed biographies. As a child, he lived in East Africa before moving to Yorkshire and Dublin. After university, he worked as a development worker in newly independent Bangladesh before returning to Africa and later the Middle East as a foreign correspondent, primarily for The Times and The Sunday Times. Over two decades, he also edited several publications focused on the Arab world.

His first book, Qaddafi and the Libyan Revolution, was co-written with his Sunday Times colleague, the late David Blundy. Since the early 1990s, Andrew has been dedicated to biographical writing. His Ian Fleming (1995) remains the definitive biography of James Bond’s creator. He has also written biographies of Rudyard Kipling, Dylan Thomas, Wilkie Collins, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Andrew’s latest book, The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes, published by Frances Lincoln, explores the social, political, and intellectual influences that shaped both Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In this session, Andrew and Lucinda will discuss this latest work, as well as Wilkie Collins, whose bicentenary is being celebrated in 2024.

🗓 Join us on the Goldster Platform on 11th March at 1 PM.