http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/robert_douglas-fairhurst en http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2012/02/charles-dickens-letters-life http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2012/02/charles-dickens-letters-life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2011/10/charles-dickens-lives-fiction http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2011/10/charles-dickens-lives-fiction Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT Robert Douglas-Fairhurst For Charles Dickens, whose bicentenary is inspiring new interest, writing fiction was a way of reaching into the unknown – of imagining lives that might have been his own.

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/02/life-burch-surgeon-cooper http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/02/life-burch-surgeon-cooper Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:00:00 GMT Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Digging up the Dead: uncovering the life and times of an extraordinary surgeon Druin Burch Chatto & Windus, 288pp, £20 ISBN 0701179856

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