In 1979 Herbert had to pay damages when it was ruled that he had based part of his novel The Spear on the work of another writer, The Spear of Destiny by Trevor Ravenscroft. Herbert would write his drafts in longhand on "jumbo pads". He had two brothers: Peter, a retired market trader and John, an insurance broker. Herbert lived in Woodmancote, near Henfield in West Sussex. James Herbert's gravestone in the churchyard of St. He left the agency to join Charles Barker Advertising where he worked as art director and then group head. He left school at 15 and studied at Hornsey College of Art, joining the art department of John Collings, a small advertising agency. He attended a Catholic school in Bethnal Green called Our Lady of the Assumption, then at 11 won a scholarship to St Aloysius Grammar School in Highgate. Biography īorn in London, Herbert was the son of Herbert Herbert, a stall-holder at London's Brick Lane Market. His books have sold 54 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into 34 languages, including Chinese and Russian. A full-time writer, he also designed his own book covers and publicity. James John Herbert, OBE (8 April 1943 – 20 March 2013) was an English horror writer. Horror, dark fantasy, thriller, science fiction
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As she gets embroiled in royal schemes and deceptions while unearthing her own power for bloodshed, civil war begins to worsen by consuming the courts of Faerie with violence. For Jude to find a place in this court, she must challenge and take responsibility for his actions resulting from that. Unfortunately, many of the fairies despise humans especially Prince Cardan Greenbriar, the youngest but the most brutal son of the High King. Ten years later, Jude yearns to identify with them even though she is mortal. Elfhame: The Folk of the Air Book One SummaryĪt seven years old, Jude Duarte’s parents were brutally killed, and it was then that she along with her two sisters were abducted to serve in the severe High Court of Faerie. This Holly Black’s Elfhame series has everything, royal faerie intrigue, magic, and romance, truly what more could you want? This is more of a contemporary fantasy novel, so you won’t be getting bogged down by a lot of high fantasy writing if that’s not really your thing. Books Worth Buying! #booktuber #bookish #readingvlog Second, Cibber eliminated one of Shakespeare's greatest characters, Margaret of Anjou, who appears in all four plays, beginning (in T he First Part of Henry VI) as a young bride and ending (in Richard III) as a kind of living ghost, haunting and cursing the Yorks. First, he began with Richard murdering the Lancastrian king Henry VI, the penultimate scene in The Third Part of Henry VI, the play that precedes Richard III in Shakespeare's first tetralogy of history plays. In fact, Garrick was an eighteenth-century actor and Cibber an eighteenth-century playwright, and Olivier's reference to them gives us our first hint about the relationship between his movie and Shakespeare's play.įor almost two centuries, from the beginning of the eighteenth to the late nineteenth, the most familiar version of Richard III was by Colley Cibber, a theater manager, actor, and playwright best remembered as the Dunce in Alexander Pope's mock epic.Ĭibber made two large structural changes to Shakespeare's play. Laurence Olivier opens his 1955 Richard III with stirring tympani and trumpets and titles reading "Laurence Olivier Presents Richard III by William Shakespeare With some interpolations by David Garrick Colley Cibber etc." Viewers unfamiliar with English theater history might suppose that Garrick and Cibber were screenwriters and that the title resembles the one that supposedly opened the 1929 Taming of the Shrew with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Mary Pickford: "Written by William Shakespeare with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor." ( Erskine 341). Failure to do this may open you to a surly side-eye, straight-up mockery, or a trip right to the spam oubliette.Įuphoria/Dysphoria by Michelle Browne and Nicolas Wilson.Ī chance encounter with a fugitive has turned Christine’s life into a nightmare. Second: you must also promote another book (or comic, or KS, or game, or whatever) by someone else. And not one of those paragraphs with the size and density of a brick. Do not panic! I’ll administer throughout the day.)įirst: keep it short. By the way, giving us links to click may hold your comment in administration for a short time. (And don’t forget to give us a link to click. Tell us about it! Tell us why we should check it out! Get excited. So, here’s your chance to promote that thing in the comments below. Hell, we can even expand this to indie games, or Kickstarters, or whatever you want, long as it’s you writing it and it’s something that tells a story. Why does Balram choose to address the Premier? What motivates him to tell his story? What similarities does he see between himself and the Premier?ģ. Do Balram's ambition and charisma make his vision clearer? More vivid? Did he win you over?Ģ. The author chose to tell the story from the provocative point of view of an exceedingly charming, egotistical admitted murderer. Amoral, irreverent, deeply endearing, and utterly contemporary, this novel is an international publishing sensation-and a startling, provocative debut. Recalling The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, The White Tiger is narrative genius with a mischief and personality all its own. On the occasion of the president of China’s impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications of Indian society. The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. “This is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you've never heard it before” (John Burdett, Bangkok 8). The stunning Booker Prize–winning novel from the author of Amnesty and Selection Day that critics have likened to Richard Wright’s Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and corruption of modern India’s caste society. In 1961, Walt Disney Productions licensed certain film and other rights of Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories from the estate of A. The Pooh stories have been translated into many languages, including Alexander Lenard's Latin translation, Winnie ille Pu, which was first published in 1958, and, in 1960, became the only Latin book ever to have been featured on The New York Times Best Seller list. They are a charming read, for young and old, and a far cry from the Disney 'copycat' stories which became popular from 1960 onwards, and which bear, (no pun intended!) little resemblance to these original enchanting stories. These are the original books as penned by the author, inspired by his son Christopher Robin. Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children's verse book When We Were Very Young (1924) and many more in Now We Are Six (1927). The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear and Pooh, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. It is in overall good vintage condition and clearly loved and read. This is an original hardback 1959, 51st edition of the classic childrens' Winnie The Pooh story, Written by A A Milne and illustrated by Anyone seeking perspective and background for the coming debates on gene modification, de novo egg and sperm creation, and the movement towards consensus on preimplantation genetic diagnosis for miscarriage and genetic disease prevention, fertility preservation in cancer survivors, reproductive alternatives for the LGBT population and proactive family planning using vitrification of eggs and sperm should start here. The first is a meticulously researched and written history of reproductive genetics, from Mendel and Darwin to Watson, Crick and Franklin, to Steptoe and Edwards, along parallel paths of basic science, medicine and bioethics. Hacking Darwin has two parts, a Darwin (historical) part and a Hacking (futuristic) part. In 2013, she was signed up by Telos Publishing for her collection of Victorian ghost stories, Absinthe and Arsenic and in 2015, the alternative history/ supernatural novel, Death’s Dark Wings. She has appeared in two international lists of best female horror writers. She also had a story in the late Billie Sue Mosiman’s Frightmare –Women Write Horror which was shortlisted for a prestigious Bram Stoker award in 2016. These have included Tales of the Lake 2, alongside Richard Chizmar, Ramsey Campbell, Tim Lebbon and the late Jack Ketchum. She has had many short stories published, including one in a celebration of forty years of the British Fantasy Society and in international horror anthologies. Her steampunk novels so far are the award winning Cyrus Darian and the Technomicron and sequel Cyrus Darian and the Ghastly Horde. These were followed by a High Fantasy spoof, The Unwise Woman of Fuggis Mire. Her first books were the dark fantasy Legacy of the Dark Kind trilogy, Blood Tears, Blood Lament and Blood Alliance. Raven Dane is a UK based author of dark fantasy, steampunk novels and horror short stories. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Too bad Brandon knows how those stories end. Their struggle to love each other is the stuff of classic Hollywood. Soon they want time together off the clock, but Percy is losing his battle for independence, and Brandon feels trapped in James’s long shadow. When he finds “Jim Ringer” on Hollywood Doubles’ website, he books an appointment, hoping to meet someone who shares his passion for his idol.īut despite their differences, they connect, and Percy’s fanboy love for James shows Brandon a side of his grandfather he never knew. His only company is his meddlesome caregiver and his collection of James Ringer memorabilia. Percy Charles is chronically ill, isolated, and lonely. He refuses to sell it-it’s his last connection to his grandmother-so to raise the cash he needs, he joins a celebrity look-alike escort agency. But that&039 s where the resemblance ends. His grandfather, silver-screen heartthrob James Ringer, died tragically at twenty-one, and Brandon looks exactly like him. Brandon is unknown, unemployed, and up to his ears in back taxes after inheriting his grandparents’ Hollywood mansion. Buy Dead Ringer at Angus & Robertson with Delivery - < p> Brandon Ringer has a dead man&039 s face. Former instructor, Free Woman's University, University of Pennsylvania. (radio producers), creative director, 1982-86 Chase Investment Bank, New York, NY, secretary, 1985-89 freelance writer, 1990. Tenney, Harold Ober Associates, 425 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10017.ĬAREER: City of Kingston, NY, tax data collector, 1977-78 towns of Hardenburgh and Denning, NY, tax clerk, 1978 McAuley Home for Girls, Buhl, ID, social worker and housemother, 1978-79 Harold Ober Associates, New York, NY, assistant to literary agent, 1979-82 ZPPR Productions, Inc. visit schools as often as I can, and read, read, read."ĪDDRESSES: Agent-Craig R. Occasionally I rescue hurt or homeless animals in a local park. I study Japanese, Central Asian, and Arabic history and culture wildlife and nature crime the American Civil War and the conflicts between Islam and Christianity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Hobbies and other interests: "I am interested in medieval customs, life, and chivalry. Education: University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1976. PERSONAL: Born December 13, 1954, in South Connellsville, PA daughter of Wayne Franklin and Jacqueline S. |