David Kenneth Holbrook was born on January 9 1923 in Norwich. In his novel Going Off The Rails (2003), he would recreate the lives of his grandfather, who built wagons in the Midland and Great ...

David Holbrook was one of a remarkable quartet of ... turned the epic of liberating destructiveness into perhaps his best novel, Flesh Wounds (1966). When he returned to Cambridgein 1945 he ...