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BE had begun The Slave Girl in 1975, but had had to put it aside to revise her previous book, write plays for television and move to a house.It went into many...

She initially dedicated the book to her daughter Chiedu, but the latter objected, saying she would burn it! BE told her daughter that she hoped burning books was not a hereditary trait, and dedicated it...

When finished, the book was refused by a round dozen of publishers in London. It drew a fatal rejection slip from Macmillan , Heinemann (where the managing director told her to bring it back if...

Biographer Julia Briggs believes that the original story was stimulated by EN 's writing about her own schooldays for the Girls' Own Paper. The composite book of tales appeared in instalments in The Windsor...

This novel was initially rejected by Macmillan . They cited weakness in the writing, but may in fact have feared the relative even-handedness of its treatment of the English and Indian viewpoints, in a context...

Cookson collaborated with Piers Dudgeon on Catherine Cookson Country, one in a Heinemann series of historical photographs that had already covered the localities of Wordsworth and Thomas Hardy .

It was reprinted twice by Heinemann this year and twice in 1930. There were four other editions in the next two decades, and Evans Brothers obtained the copyright to print it in 1951. The 1979...

At her agent's suggestion MG had left Heinemann (which had published her last two books). The agent negotiated a two-book contract for £75,000 with Flamingo , the literary imprint of HarperCollins . This was to...

MA published perhaps her best-known novel, The Tiger in the Smoke, with Chatto and Windus , which had succeeded to Heinemann as her English publisher.

She wrote this (following long tradition) early in the mornings while her family slept. She submitted it to Heinemann on the advice of someone packing up at MacGibbon and Kee , her previous publisher, which...

KOB published an autobiographical travel book, Farewell, Spain; Mary O'Neill did the drawings for both the American edition (from Garden City, New York) and the British Heinemann edition.

This novel (whose working title was Mistress Mary) was written entirely in the USA. FHB had finished or nearly finished it by April this year, but since she was near her family while writing...

JC published with Heinemann in London and Douglas and MacIntyre in Vancouver a poetry volume called House of Changes, dedicated to Tony a rare fish.

In 1948 FTJ and her husband adapted the novel as a play, which opened in London at the New Boltons Theatre Club in May 1951. The novel was produced as a talking book in 1953...

The book was published by William Collins in London. It appeared in New York from George Braziller as The Family in March 1990, and in Heinemann 's African Writers Series under its original title...