The Witch of Oxshott: From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

Alfred McLelland Burrage was born in Hillingdon, Middlesex on 1stJuly, 1889. His father and uncle were both writers, primarily of boy's fiction, and by age 16 AM Burrage had joined them. The young man had ambitions to write for the adult market too. The money was better and so was his writing.

From 1890 to 1914, prior to the mainstream appeal of cinema and radio the printed word, mainly in magazines, was the foremost mass entertainment. AM Burrage quickly became a master of the market publis...