The Frightened Face of Nature

  • Maxwell Knight, John Bingham and John le Carré by award-winning crime writer, Martin Edwards

    Maxwell Knight, John Bingham and John le Carré by award-winning crime writer, Martin Edwards

    Before he earned fame and fortune writing under the name John Le Carre, David Cornwell earned pocket money from part-time artistic work – such as illustrating Maxwell Knight’s Talking Birds. Cornwell, like Knight’s friend and trusted subordinate John Bingham, was then working for the secret services. The three men had something else in common: they…

  • “Be a Nature Detective”

    “Be a Nature Detective”

    I  have  in  front  of   me  a  “withdrawn”  library  book  written  by  Maxwell  Knight entitled “Be a Nature Detective” (Frederick Warne & Co 1968). On 24 June 1968 – some five months after the author of the book died – the book was borrowed from Derbyshire County Library for the very first time. I…