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 Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read English. 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). In 1982 he completed a doctorate at Warwick University with a thesis entitled 'Translations from German and their Reception in Britain 1760-1800'. 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 978-0-416-51630-2
- 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 0-416-84240-2
- Dragonfall 5 and the Space Cowboys (1972) ISBN 0-416-63380-3
- Dragonfall 5 and the Empty Planet (1973) ISBN 0-688-41732-9
- Dragonfall 5 and the Hijackers (1974) ISBN 978-0-416-84230-2
- Dragonfall 5 and the Master Mind (1975) ISBN 0-416-83050-1
- Dragonfall 5 and the Super Horse (1977) ISBN 978-0-416-56520-1
- Dragonfall 5 and the Haunted World (1979) ISBN 0-416-86850-9
Adult novels
- And the Mistress Pursuing (1966) ISBN 978-0-340-02834-6
- Planet in the Eye of Time (1968) ISBN 978-0-340-04334-9
Other teenage novels
- Planet of the Jumping Bears (1990) ISBN 0-434-97541-9
- The Rock Dog Gang (1987) ISBN 978-0-416-02042-7
- 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 0-947752-05-6
- 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