The book of forgotten authors /
by Fowler, Christopher.
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BookPublisher: London : riverrun, 2017Description: x, 374 pages ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9781786484895 (hbk.) :; 1786484897 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 823.009 FOWSubject(s): English fiction -- History and criticism | Fiction -- History and criticism | Authors -- History | Literature | LiteratureSummary: Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you're dead. So begins Christopher Fowler's foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves. Whether male or female, domestic or international, flash-in-the-pan or prolific, mega-seller or prize-winner - no author, it seems, can ever be fully immune from the fate of being forgotten. And Fowler, as well as remembering their careers, lifts the lid on their lives, and why they often stopped writing or disappeared from the public eye. These 99 journeys are punctuated by 12 short essays about faded once-favourites.
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| 822.92 REE Victoria Wood unseen on TV / | 822.92 THO Harry Potter and the cursed child. | 823.009 FAU Faulks on fiction: great British characters and the secret life of the novel | 823.009 FOW The book of forgotten authors / | 823.5 DEF Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox and the creation of a myth | 823.6 STI Went to London, took the dog : a diary / | 823.7 AUS The real Jane Austen: a life in small things |
Includes index.
Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you're dead. So begins Christopher Fowler's foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves. Whether male or female, domestic or international, flash-in-the-pan or prolific, mega-seller or prize-winner - no author, it seems, can ever be fully immune from the fate of being forgotten. And Fowler, as well as remembering their careers, lifts the lid on their lives, and why they often stopped writing or disappeared from the public eye. These 99 journeys are punctuated by 12 short essays about faded once-favourites.
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