Download or read book The Great British Dream Factory written by Dominic Sandbrook and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Britain's empire has gone. Our manufacturing base is a shadow of its former self; the Royal Navy has been reduced to a skeleton. In military, diplomatic and economic terms, we no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one area in which we can legitimately claim superpower status: our popular culture. It is extraordinary to think that one British writer, J. K. Rowling, has sold more than 400 million books; that Doctor Who is watched in almost every developed country in the world; that James Bond has been the central character in the longest-running film series in history; that The Lord of the Rings is the second best-selling novel ever written (behind only A Tale of Two Cities); that the Beatles are still the best-selling musical group of all time; and that only Shakespeare and the Bible have sold more books than Agatha Christie. To put it simply, no country on earth, relative to its size, has contributed more to the modern imagination. This is a book about the success and the meaning of Britain's modern popular culture, from Bond and the Beatles to heavy metal and Coronation Street, from the Angry Young Men to Harry Potter, from Damien Hirst toThe X Factor.
Download or read book The Girl from Leam Lane written by Piers Dudgeon and published by Headline Book Pub Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newly revised biography pieces together the uncensored details of Catherine Cookson's troubled and tempestuous life through a unique combination of previously unreleased material and Catherine's own, personal account. In addition to the original conversations between Catherine and Piers Dudgeon, it includes information contributed by some of those central figures in Catherine's life who, prior to her death, she would not allow to be interviewed. Among the new topics addressed: Catherine's possible bisexuality and the extent to which it affected her marriage; the contents of her own and her husband's wills and whether the vast sum of money left to the Catherine Cookson Foundation has, in fact, been put to the use that she dictated. It also examines the dramatisation of her books and how this kick-started the careers of actors such as Sean Bean and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Not only does this updated biography celebrate her memory; it also offers a breadth of perspective and depth of detail never before available to the millions of Catherine Cookson lovers up and down the country.
Download or read book The Woman of Substance written by Piers Dudgeon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of Barbara Taylor Bradford is every bit as dramatic as any of her novels.
Download or read book The Woman s Historical Novel written by D. Wallace and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical novel has been one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has been consistently under-rated and critically neglected. In the first major study of British women writers' use of the genre, Diana Wallace tracks its development across the century. She combines a comprehensive survey with detailed readings of key writers, including Naomi Mitchison, Georgette Heyer, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Margaret Irwin, Jean Plaidy, Mary Renault, Philippa Gregory and Pat Barker.
Download or read book Catherine Cookson Country written by Julie Anne Taddeo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's most widely read author of the late twentieth century, Catherine Cookson published more than 100 books, including The Fifteen Streets, The Black Velvet Gown, and Katie Mulhollond. Set in England's industrial northeast, her novels depict the social, economic, and emotional hardships of that area. In the first essay collection devoted to Cookson, the contributors examine what Cookson's memoirs and historical fiction mean to readers, including how her fans contribute to her position in the cultural imaginary; constructions of gender, class, and English and Irish identity in her work; the importance of place in her novels; Cookson's place in the heritage industry; and television adaptations of Cookson's works. Cookson's work tackled topics that were still taboo in the early post-World War II era, such as domestic abuse, rape, and incest. This collection places Cookson in historical context and shows how skillful she was at pushing generic boundaries.
Download or read book Kate s Daughter written by Piers Dudgeon and published by Pilot productions. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A powerful story and Piers Dudgeon tells it with skill and feeling' Daily TelegraphBorn into the bleak industrial heartland of Tyneside in 1906, an illegitimate child with the courage to escape and discover her true self, denies her people, reaches roc
Download or read book The Girl from Leam Lane written by Piers Dudgeon and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to an impoverished young Englishwoman in 1906, illegitimate and unwanted, Catherine Cookson lived a life marked by cruelty and neglect. At 22, reeling from a broken love affair, she left home in search of a new life. After five years in a workhouse laundry, she was finally able to buy a house of her own. But her struggle had barely begun. Following the loss of four babies, a nervous breakdown, and confinement in a psychiatric hospital, she was brought to the brink of suicide and forced to recognize the heart of darkness as her own. This remarkable book, now newly revised, draws on previously unreleased material as well as the subject's own personal account. The Girl from Leam Lane will be welcomed by the millions who know Catherine Cookson through her novels.
Download or read book Bestsellers written by C. Bloom and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-09-29 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential guide, now available in a fully updated new edition, is the only available study of all bestselling books, authors and genres since the start of the last century, giving an unique insight into a hundred years of publishing and reading and taking us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination.
Download or read book Bestsellers Popular Fiction since 1900 written by C. Bloom and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-07-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide and reference work of all of the bestselling books, authors and genres since the beginning of the 20th century, provides an insight into over 100 years of publishing and reading as well as taking us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination.
Download or read book The Girl from Leam Lane written by Piers Dudgeon and published by Headline Book Pub Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Cookson was born 100 years ago in a run-down area on the south bank of the Tyne. Forty-four years later her début novel, Kate Hannigan, established her as a bestselling storyteller of rare talent. But what readers didn't realise was that Kate Hannigan also represented the first step of the author's triumph over a nervous breakdown and a period of confinement in a mental asylum. Still in the throes of her illness, she was transforming her fears out of necessity through her art. Piers Dudgeon was granted exclusive interviews over a 15-year period until Catherine's death in 1998. Now, in the company of her family and others who declined to be interviewed during her lifetime, he sheds new light on the tortured drama of her personal life and her legacy to the nation. This revised biography is a revealing tribute to an enduringly popular writer in her centenary year, and will fascinate her many loyal fans.
Download or read book Bestsellers Popular Fiction Since 1900 written by Clive Bloom and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the publishing industry and bestselling fiction from 1900, featuring a comprehensive list of all bestselling fiction titles in the UK. This third edition includes a new introduction which features additional information on current trends in reading including the rise of Black, Asian and LGBTQIA+ publishing; the continuing importance of certain genres and up to date trends in publishing, bookselling, library borrowing and literacy. There are sections on writing for children, on the importance of audiobooks and book clubs, self- published bestsellers as well as many new entries to the present day including bestselling authors such as David Walliams, Peter James, George R R Martin and far less well known authors whose books s sell in their thousands. This is the essential guide to best-selling books, authors, genres, publishing and bookselling since 1900, providing a unique insight into more than a century of entertainment, and opening a window into the reading habits and social life of the British from the death of Queen Victoria to the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Download or read book The Girl from Leam Lane written by Piers Dudgeon and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author unlocks Cookson's complex character using her many books as the keys. Cookson had a tragic childhood and through her writing exorcised her own demons to triumph as an author.
Download or read book Sometimes a Wheel Falls Off written by Connie Cronley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of essays written by Public Radio commentator Connie Cronley.
Download or read book Catherine Cookson Country written by Catherine Cookson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1986 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Tyneside life and its influence on the author's novels.
Download or read book The Beauties of England and Wales Or Delineations Topographical Historical and Descriptive of Each County written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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