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Author's Club First Novel Award
The Authors' Club Best First Novel Award is awarded by the Authors' Club to the most promising first novel of the year, written by a British author and published in the UK during the calendar year preceding the year in which the award is presented. It has been awarded to the following: ''This list is incomplete'' *1954 - David Unwin - ''The Governor's Wife'' *1955 - Brian Moore - ''Judith Hearne'' (later republished as ''The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne'') *1956 - Harry Bloom - ''Episode'' *1957 - Edmund Ward - ''Summer in Retreat'' *1958 - Alan Sillitoe - '' Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' *1959 - David Caute - ''At Fever Pitch'' *1960 - Lionel Davidson - '' The Night of Wenceslas'' *1961 - Jim Hunter - ''The Sun in the Morning'' *1962 - John Pearson - ''Gone to Timbuctoo'' *1963 - David Rubin - ''The Greater Darkness'' *1964 - Robin Douglas-Home - ''Hot for Certainties'' *1965 - James Mossman - ''Beggars on Horseback'' *1966 - Leslie Thomas - '' The Virgin Soldie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Authors' Club
The Authors' Club is a British membership organisation established as a place where writers could meet and talk. It was founded by the novelist and critic Walter Besant in 1891. It is headquartered at the National Liberal Club. The Authors' Club was based for many years next door to its present site, on Whitehall Court, first moving into the National Liberal Club in 1966. After ten years there, in 1976 the Authors' Club joined forces with The Arts Club in Dover Street, London W1. In 2011 it moved to Blacks, a Grade 2* listed building by John Meard in Dean Street, Soho — a house that was once home to a club run by Samuel Johnson and Thomas Gainsborough — where it remained for three years. It has now returned to its old home in the National Liberal Club. The Club welcomes both men and women as members, and is open to all those "professionally engaged with literature". It was at a dinner at the Authors’ Club that Oscar Wilde denounced the censorship of his play '' Salome'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Thomas
Leslie Thomas, OBE (22 March 1931 – 6 May 2014) was a Welsh author best known for his comic novel '' The Virgin Soldiers''. Early life Thomas was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales. He was orphaned at the age of 12, when his mariner father was lost at sea and his mother died only a few months later from cancer. He was subsequently brought up in a Dr Barnardo's home; the story of this upbringing was the subject of his first, autobiographical, book, ''This Time Next Week''. Thomas attended Kingston Technical School and he then took a course in journalism at South-West Essex Technical College in Walthamstow. In 1949 he was called up for National Service and embarked on a two-year tour of duty in Singapore with the Royal Army Pay Corps. While there he was briefly involved with the military action against communist rebels in the Malayan emergency. He also began to write short articles for publication in English newspapers. Career Upon his return to England in 1951, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawn Lowe-Watson
Dawn is the time that marks the beginning of twilight before sunrise. It is recognized by the appearance of indirect sunlight being scattered in Earth's atmosphere, when the centre of the Sun's disc has reached 18° below the observer's horizon. This morning twilight period will last until sunrise (when the Sun's upper limb breaks the horizon), when direct sunlight outshines the diffused light. Etymology "Dawn" derives from the Old English verb ''dagian'', "to become day". Types of dawn Dawn begins with the first sight of lightness in the morning, and continues until the Sun breaks the horizon. This morning twilight before sunrise is divided into three categories depending on the amount of sunlight that is present in the sky, which is determined by the angular distance of the centre of the Sun (degrees below the horizon) in the morning. These categories are ''astronomical'', ''nautical'', and ''civil dawn''. Astronomical dawn Astronomical dawn begins when the Sun is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Page (British Author)
Martin Page (30 June 1938 - 10 September 2003) was a British writer and journalist who founded Business Traveler magazine. Education After attending Leighton Park and Millfield, Page went to Pembroke College, Cambridge" where he studied anthropology. Career Journalism At the age of 24, despite suffering from retinitis pigmentosa, Page became Fleet Street's youngest correspondent, covering seven wars from Algeria to Vietnam. He began his career as a graduate trainee for the '' Manchester Guardian'' before joining the '' Daily Express''. In 1975, Page founded ''Business Traveller'' magazine. The magazine included Auberon Waugh on its payroll. Page also wrote for ''The Tablet'' during his life. Authorship He wrote his first book, ''Unpersoned'' in Moscow, where he was the correspondent for the Daily Express. His books, which were published in 14 languages, include ''Company Savage'', which became a bestseller in Japan and Germany, and two novels, ''The Pilate Plot'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Gordon
Katharine Elsie Bain Gordon ( Hogg, born 12 June 1915) was a British author who wrote eight romance novels from 1978 to 2001. For her debut novel, "The Emerald Peacock", she won in 1978 the Authors' Club First Novel Award, and in 1979 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award of Special Merit by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Life and career Gordon was born in Aberdeen, Scotland on 12 June 1915 to Ceylon missionary Henry Robert William Hogg and Katharine Eliza Hogg (née Henry). She started writing when she was seven years old. She moved to India at the age of even, where she later spent much of her life. She married Donald, an English Royal Air Force pilot, in India. He left the RAF following World War II, and flew as an airline captain. Before becoming a professional writer, she worked as Secretary to E. A. Army Wardens in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1950 to 1951; as Immigration Officer at the Immigration Department in Nairobi from 1954 to 1957; and as Consular Clerk at British Em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Benson
Barbara may refer to: People * Barbara (given name) * Barbara (painter) (1915–2002), pseudonym of Olga Biglieri, Italian futurist painter * Barbara (singer) (1930–1997), French singer * Barbara Popović (born 2000), also known mononymously as Barbara, Macedonian singer * Bárbara (footballer) (born 1988), Brazilian footballer Film and television * ''Barbara'' (1961 film), a West German film * ''Bárbara'' (film), a 1980 Argentine film * ''Barbara'' (1997 film), a Danish film directed by Nils Malmros, based on Jacobsen's novel * ''Barbara'' (2012 film), a German film * ''Barbara'' (2017 film), a French film * ''Barbara'' (TV series), a British sitcom Places * Barbara (Paris Métro), a metro station in Montrouge and Bagneux, France * Barbaria (region), or al-Barbara, an ancient region in Northeast Africa * Barbara, Arkansas, U.S. * Barbara, Gaza, a former Palestinian village near Gaza * Barbara, Marche, a town in Italy * Berbara, or al-Barbara, Lebanon * Berbara, Akk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sasha Moorsom
Sacha, Sasha, Sascha, or ''variant'' may refer to: People * Sasha (name), includes list of people with the name and the variants Sascha or Sacha Musicians * Sasha (DJ) (born 1969), born Alexander Coe * Sasha (German singer) (born 1972), born Sascha Schmitz * Sasha (Jamaican musician) (born 1974), gospel singer and former deejay, born Christine Chin Animals * Sasha (dog) (2004–2008), a Labrador dog that served in the British Army * ''Galianora sacha'' (''G. sacha''), Ecuadorian jumping spider * "Sasha", name given to a frozen specimen of the extinct woolly rhinoceros Arts, entertainment, and media *''Sasha'', a 2003 album by Sasha Gradiva * ''Pour Sacha'', ''For Sacha'', 1991 film * "Sascha … ein aufrechter Deutscher", a 1992 song by Die Toten Hosen from the album ''Kauf MICH!'' * Sascha-Film, defunct Austrian film company Other uses * Sasha-class minesweeper The Sasha class is the NATO reporting name for a class of minesweepers built for the Soviet Navy between 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Johnston (novelist)
Jennifer Johnston (born 12 January 1930) is an Irish novelist. She has won a number of awards, including the Whitbread Book Award for ''The Old Jest'' in 1979 and a Lifetime Achievement from the Irish Book Awards (2012). ''The Old Jest'', a novel about the Irish War of Independence, was later made into a film called ''The Dawning'', starring Anthony Hopkins, produced by Sarah Lawson and directed by Robert Knights. Biography She was born in Dublin to Irish actress and director Shelah Richards and Irish playwright Denis Johnston. A cousin of actress and film star Geraldine Fitzgerald, via Fitzgerald's mother, Edith (née Richards), Jennifer Johnston was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. For decades, she lived in Derry, and currently lives near Dublin. Other cousins include the actresses Tara Fitzgerald and Susan Fitzgerald. Johnston was born into the Church of Ireland and many of her novels deal with the fading of the Protestant Anglo-Irish ascendancy in the 20th century. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Hawley Jarman
Rosemary Hawley Jarman (27 April 1935 – 17 March 2015) was an English novelist and writer of short stories. Her first novel in 1971 shed light on King Richard III of England. Life Jarman was born in Worcester, England, Worcester. She was educated first at Saint Mary's Convent and then at The Alice Ottley School, leaving at 18 to study singing in London for the next three years, having developed a fine soprano voice. Family circumstances prevented her from continuing with this, and she worked for a time in local government. She married David Jarman in 1958, but divorced amicably from him in 1970. She lived most of her time at Callow End, Worcestershire, between Worcester and Upton on Severn. In 1986 Jarman moved to Pembrokeshire in Wales with the prize-winning naturalist author R. T. Plumb. They married in September 2002, but Plumb died of cancer in October 2003. Writings Jarman began to write for pleasure. She developed an obsession with the character of King Richard III (145 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Ingalls
Rachel Holmes Ingalls (13 May 1940 – 6 March 2019) was an American-born author who had lived in the United Kingdom from 1965 onwards. in ''Contemporary Authors'', New Revision Series, 2007 She won the 1970 for ''Theft''. Her novella '''' was published in 1982, and her book of short stories ''Times Like These'' in 2005. Ingalls's short story "Last Act: The Madhouse" inspired the story of the character Jean in the 1997 film '' |
Peter Tinniswood
Peter Tinniswood (21 December 1936 – 9 January 2003) was an English radio and TV comedy scriptwriter, and author of a series of popular novels. He was born in Liverpool, but grew up above a dry cleaner's on Eastway in Sale, Cheshire. Early career Tinniswood attended Sale Boys' Grammar School. His career began in journalism. He spent four years in Sheffield from 1958, first working for '' The Star'', and then for the ''Sheffield Telegraph'', where he was a leader writer and specialised in feature writing. He won widespread admiration for a week-long series ''Travels with a Donkey'', an account of a tramp round the Peak District with a reluctant donkey. Television and radio In 1964, Tinniswood collaborated with his long-term writing partner David Nobbs on the BBC sketch show ''The Frost Report'' and the comedy ''Lance At Large'', a sitcom starring Lance Percival in which Percival's character, Alan Day, was involved in different scenarios and meeting different people in each ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Figures In A Landscape
''Figures in a Landscape'' was Barry England's first novel. Published by Jonathan Cape in the summer of 1968, it was hailed by critics as an exemplary addition to the literature of escape. Two professional soldiers, Ansell and MacConnachie, have escaped from a column of POWs in an unnamed country in the tropics. Safety across the border lies 400 miles away; in the meantime, they must make their way through alien territory, battling the climate and the terrain as well as the enemy's soldiers and helicopters. The Times called the book "a fiercely masochistic accomplishment" and concluded another review as follows: :: "Barry England's prose has the tough, spare elegance of steel scaffolding. His vocabulary is wide, and used with arresting precision. The speed of the narrative is impeccably controlled - long slogs over country, moments of blind panic, passages of demoralizing inactivity, hair-raising evasions, all building up to a central set-piece in a burning field. On all levels, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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