William Collins

The Collins reader wrote: It is witty, the setting is impressive, the plot is tidily organised and the solution is dramatic.NM 's powers were, her publishers felt, marvellously undiminished.

Her children were grown up and she was, she says, doing nothing. She began writing in the same secrecy as at the beginning of her career, still finding the process painful.Billy Collins ,...

For this novel she changed her publisher to Collins , who had made her a generous offer a couple of years before. She set out not to hurt the feelings of Harold Raymond of Chatto and Windus

She had finished writing this novel on 15 October 1952, after a long struggle, in emotionally trying circumstances and finding the project intractable. Instead of their customary £750 advance, Collins this time offered her the...

RL received a five-hundred-pound advance from Collins for this work. For a Virago paperback reprint of 1982 she wrote, late in the previous year, an Epilogue.

With this book she moved from Geoffrey Bles, who had published her first seven novels, to Collins . She felt guilty about this move, but she joined a stable including Agatha Christie , and...

Again she tried a new publisher, W. Collins Sons .

She wrote it secretly under the bedclothes, to combat boredom when, as a schoolgirl, she was sent home and kept in bed with something that was incorrectly suspected to be tuberculosis. Published by Mills and Boon

Carmen Callil , editor of Virago Press , approached Adrian House , RL 's editor at Collins , about re-issuing her work: he repelled this suggestion, condemning Virago as fairly pronounced feminists.

MK wrote eleven novels under the name of M. J. Farrell. Ten were published by William Collins , who kept urging her to write more. She used a pseudonym because her friends disliked...

This was the first of ten novels published by Collins under this pseudonym. MK wrote it because she decided that that was the way to get another £70.

She used the pseudonym M. J. Farrell when the play was published by Collins the same year. The play opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. Perry had urged her to write it, against...

An acting edition was published by Samuel French and another edition by Collins , both in 1951. It appeared the following year from Collins , adapted to novel form.

In The Presence of the Past; An Introduction to Landscape History (published by Collins , with illustrations), PL presented the land as story-teller.

NM published in Collins 's Crime Club series another detective novel, titled False Scent.