A Little Friendly Orgy and other porn stories have been sold as work by the author of The Eagle Has LandedReaders fancying a journey into the world of the bestselling thriller author Jack Higgins may be getting a different kind of thrill, courtesy of another writer selling erotic novels under the same name.Higgins, the pen name for the UK author Harry Patterson, is one of the world's best known writers, most famous for The Eagle Has Landed, which centres on a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill. But fans looking for a new Higgins thriller to enjoy on their Kindle have been stumbling across an apparent new sideline for the international bestseller: a series of "erotic" ebooks with titles such as His Best Friend's Ex-Wife, His Boss's Wife and A Little Friendly Orgy.One of the ebooks, which are either self-published or released by "Dark Hole Press", and are available from Amazon UK and US, as well as iTunes and Barnes & Noble, even plays on the genre in which Higgins has made his name: Just The 3 Of Us is subtitled "The Passion of Three Secret Agent" [sic]. On Monday morning, all the titles came up on Higgins's Amazon page, and the page on Amazon UK for His Best Friend's Wife includes the biography for the better known Jack Higgins: "Jack Higgins was a soldier and then a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. The Eagle Has Landed turned him into an international bestselling author and his novels have since sold over 250m copies and been translated into 25 languages.... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#publisher harpercollins
#sales team
Nadia Owusu recounts her sense of dislocation and her search for a place to call home. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-15 13:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#call home
Sevastian Volkov has won this year’s Impress Prize for New Writers, for his YA novel Orris and the Shadow Maiden. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-14 11:33:47 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#ya novel
The London Library's Emerging Writers Programme will run for a third year in 2021, including a new Virago Participation Bursary to support Black women and Black non-binary people overcoming financial barriers to accessing it. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-11 12:47:07 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#london library
The National Book Award recipient plumbed the natural world for its wisdom, exploring the Arctic tundra, the Antarctic waters and the spaces in between. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-30 17:34:15 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#national book award
#natural world
#award-winning writer
#barry lopez
Cornerstones Literary Consultancy has been awarded Arts Council funding for its Elevate mentoring scheme, following a successful pilot run. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-18 23:53:53 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
On Late Night with Seth Meyers this week, Slave Play and Daddy playwright Jeremy O. Harris announced he is donating a collection of 15 plays by Black playwrights to 53 libraries and community centers across the United States—and is donating one such collection to Northwestern University in Seth... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-12-09 17:29:54 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#libraries
#literary hub
#northwestern university
#united states—
#community centers
#black playwrights
#seth meyers
#late night
#black writers
Black History Matters: The Story of Black History, From African Kingdoms to Black Lives Matter by historian Robin Walker has been crowned the winner of the 2020 ALCS Educational Writers’ Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-09 12:12:03 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#black history
Author Lauren James has established The Climate Fiction Writers League, a group of over 50 international published authors writing about climate change. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-07 22:31:59 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#climate change
Book Reviews Sonia Nimr / Source: TAMER Institute for Community Education This whirlwind adventure begins with protagonist Qamar’s birth and follows her life along the titular wondrous journeys around the Mediterranean. Less novel than novella,... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2020-12-07 20:34:56 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#short stories
Discovered in his attic, the letters in “Love, Kurt” feel both very private and very important. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-03 13:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#kurt vonnegut
The University of East Anglia (UEA) has launched two new scholarships for international writers in memory of Sonny Mehta, the editor-in-chief of Knopf and chairman of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing who died aged 77 in December last year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-30 15:40:52 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#sonny mehta
This year has been a dumpster fire and we mean that literally. But the shining bright spot in the literary world is an abundance of great new books by Indigenous writers being published in 2020. Since it’s National Native American Heritage Month, we’re focusing on books coming out of the U.S.... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2020-11-27 12:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#literary world
#electric literature
#indigenous writers
#books coming
Novelist Pola Oloixarac and historian Imaobong Umoren (pictured) have been named as the 2021 winners of the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 17:20:13 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
The Curtis Brown Creative Writing school is launching a Breakthrough Writers’ Programme, which features fully funded courses, mentoring and scholarships for underrepresented writers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-24 13:15:13 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#underrepresented writers
The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant has awarded $675,000 to 22 writers to support critical writing on contemporary art in the categories of books, articles, and short-form writing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-23 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#contemporary art
Find more Religion & Spirituality coverage here on women authors writing books aimed at female audiences. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-21 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
A writer of extraordinary range and productivity, she was also one of the world’s first well-known transgender public figures. Her book “Conundrum” was an international best seller. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-11-20 09:25:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
The influx of star podcasters looms over a dispute between the union and managers at the Spotify-owned digital media company founded by Bill Simmons. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-11-19 16:09:33 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#digital media
#staff writers
Under-represented writers’ platform Untitled has launched the second full issue of its global online journal Untitled: Voices, featuring work from 53 emerging writers from around the world. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-18 16:23:12 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#platform untitled
#under-represented writers
One year ago I launched my fourth psychological thriller, One Year Later. It was a gloriously sunny day, and we celebrated in the village pub, The Swan Inn, toasting my novel and each other with prosecco and chocolate brownies. I was hopeful for the future: it was the last book in a four-book... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-17 16:34:59 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#four-book deal