Mantel was credited with reenergizing historical fiction with “Wolf Hall” and two sequels about the 16th-century English powerbroker Thomas Cromwell. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2022-09-23 10:42:20 UTC ]
Eleven previously unpublished letters will go on display at the Charles Dickens Museum in London, offering an insight into the British author's life. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-08-30 12:42:27 UTC ]
The Pakistani British author of 'The Last White Man,' 'Exit West,' and 'Moth Smoke' gives a keynote address on October 18 at Frankfurt. The post Mohsin Hamid To Give a Keynote Address at Frankfurt appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-08-16 12:16:05 UTC ]
‘The Snow Child’ is the shortest tale in The Bloody Chamber. Indeed, it is not even two pages long, but in a few hundred words, the British author Angela Carter incorporates a number of elements from different snow-themed fairy tales, but its most important influence was a grisly tale collected […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2022-01-28 15:00:10 UTC ]
The author of The Fortune Men will now compete with five other novelists from South Africa, Sri Lanka and the US for the 2021 awardAlex Clark explores how the Booker shortlist tunes in to the worries of our ageJust one British author has made the shortlist for this year’s Booker prize: Nadifa... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-09-14 15:25:06 UTC ]
The final six stories competing for the £30,000 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award have been revealed, featuring British author Jonathan Gibbs and Scottish writer Rachael Fulton alongside four US writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-06 11:11:42 UTC ]
The British author Fiona Mozley’s new novel, “Hot Stew,” features sex workers fighting an eviction order from a real-estate heiress and a host of other Londoners vying for control over their lives, careers and possessions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-04-20 09:00:06 UTC ]
In “The Wild Silence,” a sequel to her best-selling memoir “The Salt Path,” the British author contends with the illness and death of loved ones but finds solace outdoors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-04-06 09:00:08 UTC ]
Interviews Get to know the jurors for the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature in this series of short interviews. First up: Tanita S. Davis! Tanita S. Davis was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Mare’s War, which was a Coretta Scott... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-09-01 14:10:14 UTC ]
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race wins landmark ranking in the wake of worldwide Black Lives Matter protestsReni Eddo-Lodge has become the first black British author to take the overall No 1 spot in the UK’s official book charts.Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-06-16 14:00:03 UTC ]
Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Bloomsbury) has leapt into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, making her the first black British author to hit the weekly overall number one in the Nielsen BookScan era. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-16 07:29:33 UTC ]
Bernardine Evaristo and Reni Eddo-Lodge take No 1 slots in wake of anti-racist demonstrations, as Waterstones staff ask chain to support causeBernardine Evaristo and Reni Eddo-Lodge have become the first black British women to top the UK’s fiction and nonfiction paperback charts, in a week where... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-06-10 13:46:40 UTC ]
Yes, it’s true: the British author Evelyn Waugh’s first wife was also named Evelyn. (Evelyn Florence Margaret Winifred Gardner, to be precise.) But as you might imagine, if you know anything about the Taylor Swift-Taylor Lautner debacle of 2009, things did not go well for the Evelyns. The year... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-27 14:02:34 UTC ]
BRITISH AUTHOR KIM NEWMAN’S “Anno Dracula” series — the smartest recasting of the vampire mythos, and one of the tastiest pop-cultural confections, of the past three decades — has had a complicated evolution. The author’s basic concept — that the events narrated in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-03-09 19:00:47 UTC ]
British author and translator of Chinese literature Julia Lovell has won the 2019 Cundill History Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-14 22:58:18 UTC ]
Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood and British author Bernadine Evaristo won the 2019 Booker Prize and will splite the prize money. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-10-15 11:38:46 UTC ]
Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and British author Bernardine Evaristo split the Booker Prize on Monday, after the judging panel ripped up the rule book and refused to name one winner for the prestigious fiction trophy. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2019-10-14 20:58:08 UTC ]
In “Coventry,” the British author of the widely admired “Outline” trilogy shows how central the self is to her artistic vision. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-09-17 09:00:10 UTC ]
A blaze ripped through Ashdown Forest, the setting for British author A.A. Milne's beloved children's books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2019-05-01 00:38:53 UTC ]
HarperCollins Publishers and the London-based broadcasting network Wireless are partnering on a true crime podcast based on Murder in the Graveyard, a new book by British author and journalist Don Hale. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]