Brian Earnshaw

Brian Earnshaw (born 26 December 1929) is a British author, known for his Dragonfall 5 series, illustrated by Simon Stern.

Earnshaw was born in Wrexham, Wales, and attended St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied history. He then spent a number of years as a secondary school teacher in different locations in the UK. He spent a long time as a lecturer in English Literature at St Paul's College, Cheltenham (a teacher training college with Bristol university qualifications). After retiring, he moved to Bristol, where he still lives, and worked with Timothy Mowl on a range of books on British architectural and garden history. These sometimes appear with Earnshaw as Mowl's co-author, and sometimes with him in Mowl's acknowledgement as a researcher. He has a great love of botany and travel, and has made extensive trips around Europe and elsewhere studying flowers, architecture, gardens and history.

Bibliography

Series

Star Jam Pack

• Starclipper and the Song Wars (1985) ISBN 978-0416516302
• Starclipper on the Snowstone (1986) ISBN unknown
• Starclipper and the Galactic Final (1987) ISBN 0-416-00802-X

Dragonfall 5

• Dragonfall 5 and the Royal Beast (1972) ISBN 0416842402
• Dragonfall 5 and the Space Cowboys (1972) ISBN 0688416802
• Dragonfall 5 and the Empty Planet (1976) ISBN 0688417329
• Dragonfall 5 and the Hijackers (1979) ISBN 978-0416842302
• Dragonfall 5 and the Master Mind (1975) ISBN 0416830501
• Dragonfall 5 and the Super Horse (1977) ISBN 978-0416565201
• Dragonfall 5 and the Haunted World (1979) ISBN 0416868509

Adult novels

• And the Mistress Pursuing (1966) ISBN 978-0340028346
• Planet in the Eye of Time (1968) ISBN 978-0340043349

Other teenage novels

• Planet of the Jumping Bears (1990) ISBN 0-434-975419
• The Rock Dog Gang (1987) ISBN 978-0416020427
• Next Stop, Wildstar (1994) ISBN 0-434-97822-1

Non-fiction

• Trumpet at a Distant Gate: The Lodge as Prelude to the Country House Timothy Mowl and Brian Earnshaw, London: Waterstones, 1985 ISBN 9780947752056

• John Wood: Architect of Obsession Timothy Mowl and Brian Earnshaw, Bath: Millstream Books, 1988 ISBN 0-948975-13-X

• Architecture Without Kings: The Rise of Puritan Classicism under Cromwell, Timothy Mowl and Brian Earnshaw, New York: Manchester Univ. Press, 1995 (Sept.) ISBN 0-7190-4678-5, ISBN 0-7190-4679-3
• AN INSULAR ROCOCO Architecture, Politics and Society in Ireland and England, 1710–1770, Timothy Mowl and Brian Earnshaw, 1999 ISBN 1-86189-044-3

Poetry

• At St. David's A Year, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1968 ISBN 0-340-02503-4
• Cavafy Gone Gothic, Bristol: Redcliffe Press, 2008 ISBN 978-1-906593-06-3

External links

• Brian Earnshaw & guest
• Brian Earnshaw at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database