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Author
Publisher
NWP
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Scotland's landscape was, and is, unquestionably distinct, as are the renowned writers it has produced. 'Scottish Storytrails' describes in detail the places where 17 Scottish writers lived and worked, providing a life trail, while the fictional settings of their famous books parallel those places imaginatively.
Author
Publisher
Birlinn
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Both kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published separate accounts of their journey. These works contain some of the finest pieces of travel writing ever produced: they are also magnificent historical documents as well as portraits of two extraordinary men of letters. Together they paint a vivid picture of a society which was still almost unknown to the Europe of the Enlightenment. Entertaining, profound, and marvellously readable,...
6) Salem's lot
Author
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Illustrated ed. /
Language
English
Description
Set in a small New England town called Salem's Lot, this classic Stephen King horror tale's central character is a fairly successful writer who, upon returning to the town to write a semi-autobiography, finds himself surrounded by terror.
Publisher
Clipper Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Spanning four centuries, 'The Long Gaze Back' features 22 new stories by some of the most talented Irish women writers working today. Taken together, the collected works of these writers reveal an enrapturing, unnerving, and piercingly beautiful mosaic of a lively literary landscape. The anthology presents an inclusive and celebratory portrait of the high calibre of contemporary literature in Ireland. These stories run the gamut from heartbreaking...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
?Jacqueline Winspear has created a memoir of her English childhood that is every bit as engaging as her Maisie Dobbs novels, just as rich in character and detail, history and humanity. Her writing is lovely, elegant and welcoming.?-Anne Lamott � After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles...
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
She was Pym to friends. Miss Pym in her diaries. Sandra in seduction mode. Pymska at her most sophisticated. English novelist Barbara Pym's career was defined, in many senses, by rejection. Her first novel 'Some Tame Gazelle' was turned down by every publisher she sent it out in 1935, finally published only fifteen years later. Though she picked up a publisher from there and received modest praise, the publishing industry grew restless and her sales...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles Allen Kurzweil's search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry, which spans some forty years, takes Kurzweil all over the world, from a Swiss boarding school (where he endures horrifying cruelty) to the slums of Manila, from the Park Avenue boardroom of the world's largest law firm to a federal prison camp in Southern California....
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