Lilian Pizzichini is a local author & journalist who lives just off Portobello Road. Her books include:
Dead Men’s Wages [published by Picador] (Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction in 2002) The story of her grandfather, a local conman who made money from long firms and bent coppers.
The Blue Hour: A Portrait of Jean Rhys [published by Bloomsbury] (Radio 4 Book of the Week)
Music Night at the Apollo [published by Bloomsbury] (Spectator one of their Books of the Year in 2014) Tenements of 19th-century Lisson Grove to the estates of 20th-century Southall. A memoir of addiction.
The Novotny Papers [Amberley 2021] S&M dominatrix infiltrates a ring of villains
Raised Voice Radio, Lilian will be talking about the latest books with writers who explore the margins as well as the mainstream. How gender and class shape identity, the journeys of migration and belonging are some of the themes that crop up in these talks. The first bunch of shows features utopians, protestors, savage women and princesses.
We will be compiling an archive of all Lilian’s shows. Here’s the first one: