"Warren as Ivo Steadman and Lee Williams as Tim Cornish. No Night Is Too Long (novel) No Night is Too Long is a 1994 crime / mystery novel depicting a bisexual love triangle, a possible murder and the aftermath. The book was penned by British writer Ruth Rendell, writing as Barbara Vine. Set in Alaska and Suffolk, this story is written in three first-person narrations, the first and longest of which is the memoir-confession of Tim Cornish. Tim, a would-be novelist of twenty-four, has just received his master's degree. He travels to Alaska for a nature-exploration cruise with his somewhat"
"Grasshopper (novel) Grasshopper is a novel by Barbara Vine, pseudonym of author Ruth Rendell, first published in 2000. Blamed by her parents for the death of a friend, Clodagh has been banished from their home in the countryside to a dingy basement flat and a meaningless existence in the city. Then she meets the inhabitants of the top floor of 15 Russia Road. Charismatic Silver, brutal Johnny, paranoid Liv and exotic Wim range across a London of roofs, eaves and ledges, unseen by the ordinary inhabitants, thrilling in the freedom and danger. Clodagh, haunted for two years by the accident"
"she writes under the Vine pseudonym. The Child's Child The Child's Child is the 14th novel written by Ruth Rendell under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, and the first such novel in 4 years, since 2008's ""The Birthday Present"". The novel was published in the United States in December 2012 and in the UK by Penguin Viking in March 2013. The plot of the novel centres on a brother and sister who come to live in a relative's inherited house, and a forgotten historical novel entitled ""The Child's Child"" set in Devon. In a number of interviews Rendell has intimated that"
"on the pylon, finds that running the roofs with these fascinating misfits brings her back to life, but it seems that tragedy and misfortune may not be done with her yet... Grasshopper (novel) Grasshopper is a novel by Barbara Vine, pseudonym of author Ruth Rendell, first published in 2000. Blamed by her parents for the death of a friend, Clodagh has been banished from their home in the countryside to a dingy basement flat and a meaningless existence in the city. Then she meets the inhabitants of the top floor of 15 Russia Road. Charismatic Silver, brutal Johnny, paranoid Liv"
"LaShonda Katrice Barnett LaShonda Katrice Barnett is an American author, professor, playwright, and former radio host. She has published short stories, edited books on African American music, and written a trilogy of full-length plays. Her 2015 debut novel ""Jam on the Vine"" received a Stonewall Book Award by the American Library Association (2016). The novel courses the life of African American journalist Ivoe Williams. The book was named a finalist in the lesbian fiction category at the 2016 Lambda Literary Awards. Barnett's short fiction appears in numerous anthologies and in literary journals such as The Chicago Tribune's ""Printer's Row"", ""Callaloo"","
"Blackberry Wine Blackberry wine is a magical realism novel by Joanne Harris, published in 2000. It is set half in Yorkshire and half in the fictional village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the setting of Harris' ""Chocolat"". The book relies on Harris' typical split-narrative technique, and follows two separate timelines, one set in present-day France, one set in Yorkshire twenty years ago, during a pivotal time in the protagonist's life. Unusually, the US and the UK versions of this book are significantly different, with the US version written entirely in the third person, but the UK version (which precedes it) written from the"
"book and an audiobook. Blackberry Wine Blackberry wine is a magical realism novel by Joanne Harris, published in 2000. It is set half in Yorkshire and half in the fictional village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the setting of Harris' ""Chocolat"". The book relies on Harris' typical split-narrative technique, and follows two separate timelines, one set in present-day France, one set in Yorkshire twenty years ago, during a pivotal time in the protagonist's life. Unusually, the US and the UK versions of this book are significantly different, with the US version written entirely in the third person, but the UK version (which precedes"
"Barbara Park Barbara Lynne Park (April 21, 1947 – November 15, 2013) was an American author of children's books. Park was the daughter of a merchant and a secretary, Doris and Brooke Tidswell. She grew up in Mount Holly Township, New Jersey. From 1965 to 1967, she attended Rider College, later finishing her B.S. in 1969 at the University of Alabama. She married Richard A. Park in 1969. She lived in Phoenix, Arizona for almost 30 years and had two sons, Steven and David. She was the author of the popular Junie B. Jones children's series. The Junie B. Jones"
"Asta's Book Asta's Book is a 1993 novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, written under the name Barbara Vine. It was published in the USA under the title ""Anna's Book"". This is set in the 1990s, with flashbacks to 1905 via Asta's diary. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to east London from Denmark with their two sons and a third child on the way. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing her diary. She continued the diary through the decades until 1967. These diaries were later discovered, translated and published"
"Gabrielle Zevin Gabrielle Zevin (born October 24, 1977, New York City) is an American author and screenwriter. Zevin's first novel ""Elsewhere"" was published in 2005. It was nominated for a 2006 Quill award, won the Borders Original Voices Award, and was a selection of the Barnes & Noble Book Club. It also made the Carnegie long list. The book has been translated into over twenty languages. In 2007 Zevin was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for ""Conversations with Other Women"" which starred Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart and was also directed by Hans Canosa."
"Barbara Pym Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are ""Excellent Women"" (1952) and ""A Glass of Blessings"" (1958). In 1977 her career was revived when the critic Lord David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin both nominated her as the most under-rated writer of the century. Her novel ""Quartet in Autumn"" (1977) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Barbara Mary Crampton"
"Rosalind Brett (author) Lillian Warren, pseudonym Rosalind Brett (fl. 1950s) was a British author who wrote for Mills & Boon romance. As a prolific author of romance novels, she had two other pseudonyms, Kathryn Blair and Celine Conway. At the height of her career, Warren was considered one of publisher's superstars, who set high sales records and a standard for romances published during the 1950s. Joseph McAleer in his book , describes Brett's work as so sexy for the era, that it often had to be ""watered down"". According to McAleer, she is credited by Anne Weale as inventing the"
"King Solomon's Carpet King Solomon's Carpet (1991) is a novel by Barbara Vine, pseudonym of Ruth Rendell. It is about the London Underground and the people frequenting it. Vine's novel is inhabited by ordinary passengers, tube aficionados, pickpockets, buskers, vigilantes, and children who go ""sledging"" on the roofs of cars as an initiation rite. The title of the book refers to the legend of King Solomon's magic carpet of green silk which, as it could fly and brought everyone to their destination, is likened to the underground. ""King Solomon's Carpet"" is one of the few novels set in London which"
"Barbara Else Barbara Else is a writer, editor, literary agent, fiction consultant and playwright. She has written novels for adults and children, plays, short stories and articles and has edited anthologies of children’s stories. She has received a number of awards and fellowships including the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature, the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal (one of the country's top awards for children’s writers) and the Victoria University of Wellington's Writer’s Fellowship. Barbara Else (also published as Barbara Neale) was born in Invercargill in 1947. She lived in Riverton until age two, when her family shifted"
"Lauran Paine Lauran Bosworth Paine (born Lawrence Kerfman Duby Jr.; February 25, 1916 – December 1, 2001) was an American writer of Western fiction. Paine wrote over 1000 books, including hundreds of Westerns as well as romance, science fiction, and mystery novels. He also wrote a number of non-fiction books on the Old West, military history, witchcraft, and other subjects. Because his publishers only accepted a limited number of books under a single author's name, Paine adopted dozens of pseudonyms including Mark Carrel, John Kilgore, Clay Allen, A. A. Andrews, Dennis Archer, John Armour, Carter Ashby, Harry Beck, Will Benton,"
"seventy award-winning and best-selling books"", published by Peachpit Press, Berkeley, CA. <br> Titles by Williams, Robin (writing alone under that name, except as noted). <br> Titles by Williams, Robin, writing with Tollett, John (and, as noted, others). <br> With Cohen, Sandee. Available for electronic download by Williams, Robin. publisher: Peachpit Press, Berkeley Robin Williams (writer) Robin Patricia Williams (born October 9, 1953) is an American educator who has authored many popular computer-related books, as well as the book ""Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare?"". Among her computer books are manuals of style ""The Mac is Not a"
"The Minotaur (novel) The Minotaur is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. It was first published in 2005. Kerstin Kvist didn't quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand home, Lydstep Old Hall, deep in the Essex countryside. The family turned out to be even odder than the house: the widowed Mrs Cosway lived with her three unmarried daughters, in thrall to the old lady. A mysterious fourth daughter - a widow herself and apparently quite rich - came and went,"
"and King Kyle, Detectives Lewis and Papa: Adventure on the Santa Fe Trail Stars in the Darkness Nugget and Darling Barbara M. Joosse Barbara M. Joosse (born February 18, 1949) is an American children's writer. She has been writing for children for over thirty years. She has published thirty-eight books for children, both picture books and chapter books. Through her writing, she aspires to find the things that are the same, and the things that are different, between us all. She has toured worldwide to promote her books, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages. She was born in Grafton,"
"Donald Bain (writer) Donald Slitheran Bain (March 6, 1935 – October 21, 2017) was a United States author and ghostwriter, having written over 115 books in his 40-year career. byline: Trudy Baker and Rachel Jones byline: Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain A spin-off book series based on the ""Murder, She Wrote"" American crime drama television series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. byline: J.D. Hardin A ghostwriter is often required to be anonymous as a part of the contract to write the book. Some sources claim Bain is the author of most of the mystery"
"K. K. Beck Kathrine Kristine Beck (born 1950), known mainly by her pen name of K. K. Beck, is an American novelist. She has written over a dozen books, some of which were part of the ""Iris Cooper"" novel series and the ""Jane da Silva"" novel series. Her novels were published between 1984 and 1999. An early novel of hers, ""Death of a Prom Queen"" (1984) was written under the pen name of Marie Oliver. She wrote a series of other novels, under the name K. K. Beck, such as ""The Revenge of Kali-Ra"" in 1999. One of her most"
"William Sarabande William Sarabande is the pen name for Joan Lesley Hamilton Cline who was born in Hollywood, California. Cline began writing at the age of 17 and was first published in 1979. ""Bill"" is primarily known as the author of the First Americans series of novels published by Bantam Books and lives near Big Bear Lake, California. First published in 1986, ""Wolves of the Dawn"" is the tale of an ancient clan of Celtic Britain at the beginning of the Bronze Age. Set in the ice age, this series of books tell the story of the first people to"
"Ruth Rendell Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, (; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015), was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. Rendell's best-known creation, Chief Inspector Wexford, was the hero of many popular police stories, some of them successfully adapted for TV. But Rendell also generated a separate brand of crime fiction that deeply explored the psychological background of criminals and their victims, many of them mentally afflicted or otherwise socially isolated. This theme was developed further in a third series of novels, written under her pseudonym Barbara Vine. Rendell was born Ruth Barbara"
"Ruth Rendell Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, (; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015), was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. Rendell's best-known creation, Chief Inspector Wexford, was the hero of many popular police stories, some of them successfully adapted for TV. But Rendell also generated a separate brand of crime fiction that deeply explored the psychological background of criminals and their victims, many of them mentally afflicted or otherwise socially isolated. This theme was developed further in a third series of novels, written under her pseudonym Barbara Vine. Rendell was born Ruth Barbara"
"Charlotte Mary Brame Charlotte Mary Brame (usually known as Charlotte M. Brame, last name sometimes mistakenly given as Braeme; appeared under pseudonyms in America, notably Bertha M. Clay, and was sometimes identified by the name of her most famous novel, Dora Thorne) (1 November 1836 – 25 November 1884) was an English novelist. She was born in Hinckley, Leicestershire, to Benjamin and Charlotte Agnes Law, devout Roman Catholics. After attending convent schools in Bristol and Preston and a finishing school in Paris, she worked as a governess before marrying Phillip Edward Brame (1839–1886), a London-based jeweller, on 7 January 1863."
"A Fatal Inversion A Fatal Inversion is a 1987 novel by Ruth Rendell, written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. The novel won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in that year and, in 1987, was also shortlisted for the Dagger of Daggers, a special award to select the best Gold Dagger winner of the award's 50-year history. In the process of burying a beloved dog in the animal cemetery of Wyvis Hall, a beautiful Suffolk country house, the owner unearths the skeletons of a dead woman and baby. The horrific discovery challenges the buried memories and guilt of a small"
"Barbara Parker (writer) Barbara Parker (January 28, 1947 – March 7, 2009) was an American mystery writer. She wrote 12 novels, the first of which, ""Suspicion of Innocence"", was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best first mystery novel by an American author. Parker was on the national board of the Mystery Writers of America and was the chair of its membership committee for two years. Parker was born in Columbia, South Carolina and lived in North Carolina before moving with her family to Florida. There she attended the University of South Florida, majoring in theatre arts,"
"Barbara Gelb Barbara Gelb (; February 6, 1926 – February 9, 2017) was an American author, playwright, and journalist. She, along with her husband Arthur, wrote three biographies of the Nobel laureate playwright Eugene O'Neill. Barbara Stone was born in 1926 in Manhattan, New York. Her father was heir to a prosperous chain of five-and-dime stores; her mother was a Russian immigrant and sister of the violinist Jascha Heifetz. When she was nine, her parents divorced; her mother married S. N. Behrman, a journalist, screenwriter, and playwright. Stone was sent to boarding school, in order not to disturb Behrman's writing."
"Barbara Kingsolver Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American novelist, essayist and poet. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood. Kingsolver earned degrees in biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels. Her widely known works include ""The Poisonwood Bible"", the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and ""Animal, Vegetable, Miracle"", a non-fiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity and the interaction"
"Barbara Neely Barbara Neely (often self-stylized as BarbaraNeely) is an African-American novelist, short story writer and activist who writes murder mysteries. Her first novel, ""Blanche on the Lam"" (1992), introduced the protagonist Blanche White, a middle-aged mother, domestic worker and amateur detective. Barbara Neely, born in 1941, was the oldest of three children born to Ann and Bernard Neely who lived in a rural Pennsylvania Dutch community in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. She attended a Roman Catholic elementary school and was the only child in her class of Pennsylvania German dialect (popularly known as Pennsylvania Dutch) students to speak English fluently and"
"Yvonne Vera Yvonne Vera (September 19, 1964 – April 7, 2005) was an author from Zimbabwe. Her first published book was a collection of short stories, ""Why Don't You Carve Other Animals"" (1992), which was followed by five novels: ""Nehanda"" (1993), ""Without a Name"" (1994), ""Under the Tongue"" (1996), ""Butterfly Burning"" (1998), and ""The Stone Virgins"" (2002). Her novels are known for their poetic prose, difficult subject-matter, and their strong women characters, and are firmly rooted in Zimbabwe's difficult past. For these reasons, she has been widely studied and appreciated by those studying postcolonial African literature. Vera was born in"
"1993, settling in Bluffton, Ohio. Donovan died in 2001. Barbara died two years later in the Mennonite Memorial Home at the age of 87. She was survived by two sons and a daughter. Barbara Smucker Barbara Claassen Smucker (1 September 1915 – 29 July 2003) was an American writer, primarily of children's fiction, who lived in Canada from 1969 to 1993. She is the author of twelve books, including ""Underground to Canada"" (1977) which is still widely studied in Canadian schools and ""Days of Terror"" (1979) which won the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize. In 1988, she received the Vicky"
"Robin Williams (writer) Robin Patricia Williams (born October 9, 1953) is an American educator who has authored many popular computer-related books, as well as the book ""Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare?"". Among her computer books are manuals of style ""The Mac is Not a Typewriter"" and ""The Non-Designer's Design Book"", as well as numerous manuals for various macOS operating systems and applications, including ""The Little Mac Book"". ""Through her writing, teaching, and seminars, ... [Williams] has influenced an entire generation of computer users in the areas of design, typography, desktop publishing, the World Wide Web, and"
"Barbara Vernon (writer) Barbara Mary Vernon (25 July, 1916 – 16 April, 1978) was an Australian playwright, screenwriter and radio announcer. Her plays include ""The Multi-Coloured Umbrella"". She was the headwriter and script editor of the TV drama series Bellbird Vernon was born in 1916, the youngest child of four to medical practitioner Murray Menzies Vernon and Constance Emma Elliot (née Barling). She attended the New England School in Armidale, New South Wales , before entering the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force in 1943, rising to rank of Corporal, before being discharged in 1946. She joined radio the Northern Broadcasters"