Adrian Mitchell on blending fact and fiction

Adrian Mitchell is one of our most popular and prolific authors at Wakefield. From Plein Airs and Graces, the biography of George Collingridge that got Adrian shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, to Dampier's Monkey, on the south seas voyages of William Dampier, Adrian's skills at biography are well documented. But in his last couple of books he's moved a little left of centre, using historical figures as the basis of fictionalised work. It started with The…