Description
Kazuo Ishiguro: Harmony & Confrontation
His novels are small, subtle tales narrated by characters who are coming to terms with their pasts. Born in Nagasaki, and moved with his family to England when he was a boy, Ishiguro has grown into one the United Kingdom’s premier writers.
Collecting The Whitbread Award Books
Next to the Booker Awards, the most prestigious literary prize in the British Isles is the Whitbread Award.
A Brief Literary Biography
of Rafael Sabatini
Born in Italy, Sabatini grew up multi-lingual. His English prose style was rich and luxurious, just when Hemingway’s lean fiction was gaining ascendancy. His was a sunny world, where good ultimately triumphs over evil. Find a first of Scaramouchein dust wrapper and your disposition will be joyous and your pockets lined with gold.
The Best of British Literary Fiction: 2000
Our annual survey of the best and potentially most collectable books published in the British Isles.
Books into Film
Captain Blood, a book by Rafael Sabatini, a film by Michael Curtiz.
Ten Years Ago
March 1991 Checklist Update: Shirley Jackson