About the author

Francis Booth

<p>Apart from <em>No Direction Home</em> Francis Booth is the author of several books on twentieth century culture:</p><ul><li><em>Amongst Those Left: The British Experimental Novel 1940-1960 </em>(published by Dalkey Archive);</li><li><em>Everybody I Can Think of Ever: Meetings That Made the Avant-Garde</em></li><li><em>Girls in Bloom: Coming of Age in Mid-20th Century Women's Fiction</em> </li><li><em>A Girl Named Vera Can Never Tell a Lie: The Novels of Vera Caspary</em></li><li><em>Text Acts: Twentieth Century Literary Eroticism</em></li><li><em>Comrades in Art: Revolutionary Art in America 1926-1938</em></li></ul><p>Francis is also the author of two novel series:</p><ul><li>The <em>Code 17</em> series, set in the Swinging London of the 1960s and featuring aristocratic spy Lady Laura Summers</li><li>Young adult fantasy series <em>The Watchers</em></li></ul>