Maligning Mr Leach – the gaps are where the mysteries lie
Someone asked me the other day if the biography I'm working on will contain any fictional elements. Um, no. If it did it, wouldn't it be a work of historical fiction, and not a biography? And yet, I do confess, the temptation to create fiction - to fill in the gaps - is strong. Occasionally within the text of my manuscript I offer some brief conjecture. But I'm careful to make it very clear that conjecture and guess-work (albeit educated guess-work) is all that it is. However sometimes my conjecture [...]