Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a prolific novelist, short-story writer, and poet, who is perhaps best-known for classic children’s books like The Jungle Book and for poems like ‘If—’. But Kipling’s short stories for adults often get overlooked – a fact which is perhaps hardly surprising given... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2022-05-18 14:00:38 UTC ]
Publishing’s long established boys’ club in espionage fiction is having its cover blown by a new school led by Stella Rimington, Manda Scott and Charlotte PhilbyWhen Stella Rimington, the former director general of MI5 and spy author, wrote a new foreword last year to The Spy’s Bedside Book,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-01-07 09:00:54 UTC ]
Sky Arts will broadcast two new documentaries on E M Forster and Rudyard Kipling this autumn. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-14 22:29:32 UTC ]
Audible.co.uk has produced a new full-cast dramatisation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book – The Mowgli Stories, in association with charity partner the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). The audiobook will feature voice talent including Bill Bailey as Baloo, Richard E Grant as Khan and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Egmont has announced the first six titles in its new classics range, including Just So Stories and Alice in Wonderland. The series, which is replacing the ‘heritage’ series, will launch in August with The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham, Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, Peter Pan by J... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
A letter, written by British author Rudyard Kipling in 1895, is up for auction. In it, Kipling confesses to it being "extremely possible" that he "promiscuously" borrowed from the work of others.A letter, written by British author Rudyard Kipling in 1895, is up for auction by Anderson... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]