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FH 's poetry, as well as her poetry-reading for the BBC , touched many, and thousands mourned her early death. In 1984 Canto produced a cassette tape of her reading her poetry and giving an...

During her lifetime RP was deeply appreciated by some readers. C. S. Lewis scatters through his letters such remarks as Whenever I re-read your poems, I blame myself for not re-reading them oftener.Arthur Russell

It was a disappointment to OM when The Observer review, by Ruth Inglis , was headlined, Who is Olivia Manning?Francis King , however, opened a composite review with this novel, placing it ahead...

A conference at the University of Warwick commemorated the two hundredth anniversary of MR 's death; Stuart Curran gave a plenary address and Jacqueline M. Labbe spoke about Robinson on the BBC 's Woman's Hour.

DDM made her first television appearance, in an interview on BBC 2 .

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...

Mollie Hardwick in Books and Bookmen pronounced this to be a delicate water-colour of a novel, small and charming.PF 's winning of the coveted, ten-thousand-pound Booker Prize for it suggests that others saw more...

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...

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

SW had not expected her book to travel beyond the lesbian community, but she was in for a surprise. The Independent on Sunday enthused: Could this be a new genre? The bawdy lesbian picaresque novel...

At another performance two weeks later (with the script this time complete), the cast took fourteen curtain calls before Thomas took the final one alone. Other American readings followed. DT delivered the typed, completed manuscript...

The Times Literary Supplement judged the original to be a singularly interesting book—written by a German for Germans in the shadow of the First World War—and that Hamilton's translation was of exceptional excellence. She...

UAF 's poetry was broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, a CBE in...

The name of the fictional town or village of Llareggub (bugger all spelled backwards) had been in his mind for more than twenty years. He had discussed the project of a history of this...

MGM wrote to the BBC to complain of the review that EAR had broadcast of the film The Green Years.