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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Noel Streatfeild | In 2004 this book was broadcast serially on BBC Radio 4
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| Publishing | Ann Quin | AQ
published a handful of short stories and articles in various journals, including Nova, the London Magazine, transatlantic review, and Antigonish Review. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 231 qtd. in Sewell, Brocard, and Colin Wilson. Like Black Swans: Some People and Themes. Limited Edition, Tabb House, 1982. 186 |
| Publishing | Maggie Gee | |
| Publishing | Shena Mackay | Some of these nine stories had recently appeared in anthologies; two were commissioned by BBC Radio 4
, and read on air in 1991 and 1992. In one of these, A Mine of Serpents... |
| Publishing | Dorothy L. Sayers | The BBC
filmed five Wimsey novels (set in the 1920s) with Ian Carmichael
playing the sleuth, then added the three Harriet Vane mysteries, set in the 1930s. |
| Publishing | Brigid Brophy | The BBC
published BB
's single children's book, Pussy Owl, with illustrations by Hilary Hayton
. The stories which make up the book had been told on the BBC children's programme Jackanory. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987. 1982 Brown, Susan Windisch, editor. Contemporary Novelists. 6th ed., St James Press, 1996. 156 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Publishing | Caryl Churchill | The Royal Court acted speedily, getting the play on stage the month after it was written, at equal speed, in response to the simultaneous incursion of Israel into the Gaza Strip. Tickets were free, but... |
| Publishing | Penelope Fitzgerald | As a child Penelope Knox, together with her brother
produced a family magazine. In 1980 she observed: The stories I wrote at the age of eight and nine did not bring me the success I... |
| Publishing | Sue Townsend | ST
's greatest success began in, but did not stay in, the theatre world. One Sunday (a total collapse; I was exhausted) her eldest son enquired in that adolescent, self-pitying voice why they... |
| Publishing | Fay Weldon | |
| Reception | Jane Austen | The major novels have been repeatedly dramatised and filmed; the BBC
has had great success with videos and DVDs of all six. They and the unfinished novels have been almost equally material for sequels, prequels... |
| Reception | Penelope Fitzgerald | Mollie Hardwick
in Books and Bookmen pronounced this to be a delicate water-colour of a novel, small and charming. qtd. in “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
| Reception | Malorie Blackman | While Blackman's publisher was seeking a US contract for Noughts and Crosses, the terrorist attacks of 7 September made a fictional Liberation Militia into an untouchable idea. The book did not appear in the... |
| Reception | Mary Stewart | The novel was adapted for television in 1991 when the BBC
filmed six episodes, which were then released together on video as Merlin of the Crystal Cave. The series was directed by Michael Darlow |
| Reception | Barbara Pym | It was well reviewed by another novelist, Lady Cynthia Asquith
. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 325 |
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