shown by the BBC in 2004. She is currently working on a novel about Rossetti. Greer's memoir A Parallel Life was published in 2014 and was described by Joy Lodico in The Independent as "the story of a journey deliberately and bravely taken against all expectations". Greer is a member of the Arts Emergency Service, a British charity working with 16- to 19-year-olds in further education from diverse backgrounds. She is a patron of the SI Leeds Literary Prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women in the UK. She is also a board member of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS). In April 2005, she was appointed to the British Museum's Board of Trustees and completed two full terms; from late March 2009 she served as Deputy Chairman. In 2011, she accepted the post of President of the Brontë Society. She resigned in June 2015, following internal disagreements about the society's direction. Greer is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby. Greer also appears in the Sky Arts TV programme 'Discovering Film', as one of its leading movie experts celebrating the lives and work of some of the most prolific and iconic Hollywood stars, and comments frequently about members of the Royal Family on various ITN documentaries such as Channel 4's Charles: Our New King. Honours and awards Greer was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours for services to the Arts. She received her honour from Prince Charles. In July 2022 she was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London. Selected works Books Hanging by Her Teeth (Serpent's Tail, 1994), novel. Entropy (Picnic Publishing, 2009), novel. Obama Music (Legend Press, 2009). Langston Hughes: The Value of Contradiction (2011) (Arcadia/BlackAmber Books). A Parallel Life (Arcadia Books, 2014). Films White Men Are Cracking Up (1996), screenplay) Musicals Solid Marilyn and Ella (2008) Opera Yes (November 2011), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Plays Munda Negra (1993) Dancing on Blackwater (1994) Jitterbug (Arcola Theatre, 2001) Podcasts Radio plays The Little Prince Marilyn and Ella Backstage at the Mocambo Ferguson (2016) TV Siren Spirits, Episode 4 (1994) References External links Greer's contributor page at The Guardian. Contributor page at the New Statesman. "Abstraction of Wit in Black Heritage and Modern Times", 9 February 2010, Insights Public Lecture, University of Newcastle. Lecture video recording,