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The novel's first published title was inspired, according to Frances Partridge , by Virginia Woolf 's description of painter Henry Lamb as nipped, like a man on a pier. In 1978, when Penguin Books

Rowling submitted her manuscript to one agent who rejected it, then to the Christopher Little Literary Agency , where it was noticed by Bryony Evans , who had the job of opening the post. The...

It was later re-issued as a Penguin paperback.

The book germinated four more novels: Ripley Under Ground, 1970; Ripley's Game, 1974 (of which a film by Liliana Cavani was released in 2003, with John Malkovich as the protagonist); The Boy Who...

This began as the script for a series in eight episodes for ITV , which in turn was sparked by DM 's plan (never carried through) to act as surrogate mother on behalf of an...

This too she dedicated to, and in reproof of, her husband , calling him her sailing partner and recalling some words he had used about her, which in the novel she puts in the mouth...

AC 's work outside fiction includes several translated editions of fairy tales: The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault with her foreword (1977), and Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales (1982). Her Perrault translation, originally...

EHY changed her publisher to Jonathan Cape for her next novel, William, which ten years later appeared as one of the first ten titles under the new Penguin imprint.

It came out in paperback from Penguin in 1989. The protagonist first appeared in one of DM 's short stories and then insisted, as she says, on becoming the centre of a book.

Pin Mill (on the river Orwell, almost an appendage of the larger village of Chelmondiston) is proud of its association with this novel, though EAR takes second place in its publicity to We...

This was reprinted by Penguin in 1946, by Virago in 1987, and by Persephone Books in 2004.

In about 1773-4 CL planned a subscribers' edition with illustrations by Sir Joshua Reynolds , Francesco Bartolozzi , and Giovanni Battista Cipriani ; but this came to nothing. When an illustrated edition did appear...

PM published a volume of her New Yorker stories as Saturday Lunch with the Brownings, which became a Penguin paperback in 1977.

When MR received her copy of The Persian Boy, she was startled to discover that she had been summarily transferred to Allen Lane , the hardback division of Penguin . After the death of...

She wrote this novel in Africa, and brought the manuscript with her to England. As she noted later, there was at this date little modern fiction about Africa.Penguin issued in 1992 a...