About the book: 1985 / Giles Gordon is the author of six novels and three collections of short stories. He also edits books by other English prose writers. Gordon is a literary agent, editor of the trimonthly Drama magazine, and theater critic for the weekly Spectator. J. Gordon was born in 1940. He lives in London with his wife and three children. The story “The Bloomsbury Kidnapping” was published in the collection “London Stories”, which was edited by Julian Evans and published by Hamish Hamilton in 1983.