Esteemed author and educator Lore Segal, who wrote and translated clever and sunny children's tales alongside the autobiographical adult stories and novels informed by her early life as a Jewish refugee during WWII, died on October 7 at her home in Manhattan. She was 96. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
In 1966, after more than a quarter century in obscurity, the Dominica-born British author Jean Rhys published what is now considered to be her masterpiece. Wide Sargasso Sea is an astonishing, hallucinatory fantasy about the early life, and eventual psychological disintegration, of the first... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-08-24 12:59:00 UTC ]
Anthony M. Amore’s book follows the early life of IRA sympathizer Bridget Rose Dugdale. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-11-20 17:05:08 UTC ]
Drawing on Octavia E. Butler's journals and notes, "A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky" offers a glimpse inside her journey to becoming a science fiction writer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-11-11 15:30:06 UTC ]
Andersen Press has acquired I, Ada, a new YA novel based on the early life of Victorian computer programmer Ada Lovelace, written by Julia Gray. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-07 13:54:37 UTC ]
L'Amour never published his first novel, 'No Traveller Returns,' which draws upon on his early life at port and at sea. Now the novel is being released for the first time with the help of his son, Beau L'Amour, as part of a series of 'Lost Treasures.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picked by Karin Roffman, author of 'The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canongate has acquired a children’s book by Matt Haig about the early life of Father Christmas. Set in 18th-century Finland, A Boy Called Christmas is about elves, reindeer, a kidnapping, and an 11-year-old boy called Nikolas who isn't afraid to believe in magic. It will be illustrated... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Portobello Books has signed a novella by Polish author Wioletta Greg. Senior editor Max Porter acquired world English language rights to Guguly (title to be confirmed) from the Barbara J Zitwer Agency in association with Marzena Stefanska of Agencja Literacka Kwiaty Orientu. Published by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has signed two new books from Lynda La Plante covering the early life of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling says she is working on a play about Harry's early life, expected to hit British theaters within the next two years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nicola Griffith's radical departure from her previous fiction results in the 7th century epic 'Hild.'Author Nicola Griffith is as unpredictable and fascinating as one of her heroines. Her first two novels, "Ammonite" and "Slow River" (which won a Nebula Award), were science fiction. And from... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 06/10/2011 - 08:40 Jonathan Cape has acquired a second novel from the John Llewellyn-Rhys prize-winning author Evie Wyld. Senior editor Alex Bowler acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Wyld's All the Birds, Singing from Laetitia... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]