Across the Moors: From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

William Fryer Harvey AM was born on 14th April 1885 into a wealthy Quaker family in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

He was educated at the Quaker Bootham School in Yorkshire and Leighton Park School in Reading before university at Balliol College, Oxford.

His health was fragile and he poured his energies into writing short stories and in 1910 published his first collection `Midnight House'.

In the Great War he was with the Friends' Ambulance Unit and then served as a surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Na...