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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...

Tremendously popular with audiences, the play was performed in several cities in Britain and internationally, besides being adapted for BBC television. In Japan, audiences saw the play as a tragedy about a woman's inability...

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...

Consensus has so far eluded readers of BP . Popular and respected early in her career, discarded by hardnosed publishers as old-fashioned, dramatically resuscitated to bestseller status by the combined power of the BBC ...

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...

In 2005 MB received the Eleanor Farjeon Award from the British Children's Book Circle for her body of work (then extending over fifteen years). The same year she was awarded the OBE and in 2009...

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...

This collection keeps in mind the Scots element in the title as well as the birth element. It interprets the latter broadly to include various metaphorical kinds of birth and renewal. KJ writes here in...

About half of these nineteen very short stories (averaging less than ten pages apiece) are reprinted from magazines—Stand, the Irish Tatler, Writing Women, London Magazine—or anthologies. Short Days, Long Nights...

The Rainy Summer exemplifies her lively descriptions of landscape; it ends, Bees, humming in the storm, carry their cold / Wild honey to cold cells.Philip Larkin chose this poem (his only selection from...

In the particularly teasingly titled Go Tell It to Mrs. Golightly, 1977, a blind girl staying with her grandfather discovers a kidnapping.Joe and the Gladiator was filmed for BBC television in 1971.

Correspondents represented in the volume include Freya Stark , as well as Bernard Shaw , Siegfried Sassoon , and Walter de la Mare . This volume was adapted for television by the BBC in 1988, without crediting VM .

Yet the casual virtuosity of this poem is a kind of consolation. WC 's assets include the power of compression and the power of brevity, sometimes Larkin esque (as in the conclusion of Bloody Men...