Penguin

Six months before publication she visited Freya Stark to see the Browning house at Asolo. The book appeared as a Penguin paperback in 1958.

This was reprinted in a Penguin edition in 2001.

This too she dedicated to, and in reproof of, her husband , calling him her sailing partner and recalling some words he had used about her, which in the novel she puts in the mouth...

This book was based on the annual Massey Lectures which Atwood gave in Toronto this year. She was initially unwilling to accept the invitation to speak, but did so on condition that the result would...

Pin Mill (on the river Orwell, almost an appendage of the larger village of Chelmondiston) is proud of its association with this novel, though EAR takes second place in its publicity to We...

This novel has appeared in both Penguin and Virago editions. The paper cover of an Italian translation was so hideous that ET tore it up.

It was reprinted as a Virago Classic in 1984, and by Penguin in 2000.

VSW had prepared for writing this by travelling to places in France connected with the story. She dedicated it to her niece Philippa St Aubyn . She intended to publish...

The book germinated four more novels: Ripley Under Ground, 1970; Ripley's Game, 1974 (of which a film by Liliana Cavani was released in 2003, with John Malkovich as the protagonist); The Boy Who...

This volume's appearance was the work of ET 's literary agent, David McCormick , who regarded the re-animation of forgotten reputations as his speciality. A London edition and a Dutch translation followed in 2004, and...

PH , writing from the mid-twentieth century, first in the USA and then in Europe and England, produced short stories and novels, the majority of them variously classifiable as thrillers or suspense fiction, a...

In 2017 both KS and Penelope Lively were approached by Penguin to select under-appreciated works for inclusion in a series of forgotten classics by female British authors in recognition of the centenary passing of Representation...

In her professional career, NS gradually came to accept the role of writer for children as a more prominent part of her identity than that of writer for adults. She answered letters from children who...

As a schoolgirl CAD had a Saturday job sweeping the floor at a local hairdresser's. Her pay each week bought her ten cigarettes, a bottle of wine, and a Penguin collection of some modern poet.

In the 1950s, UM struggled with a long, semi-autobiographical work entitled Everyday Life in Jamaica to be published by Knopf , but this was never completed. In 1964, the year before she died, she received...