"Tom Bell, a new actor who plays the writer on a par with her. Particularly she must share it with the remarkable young director Bryan Forbes, who also wrote the screenplay from a novel by Lynne Reid Banks.Mr. Forbes is a sometime actor whose first directorial job was last year's beautiful and sensitive ""Whistle Down the Wind."" In this little picture he has achieved much the same human quality, with shadings of spiritual devotion, as in that."" The L-Shaped Room The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British drama film, directed by Bryan Forbes, which tells the story of a young"
"The Women's Room The Women's Room is the debut novel by American feminist author Marilyn French, published in 1977. It launched French as a major participant in the Feminist Movement and, while French states it is not autobiographical, the book reflects many autobiographical elements. For example, French, like the main character, Mira, was married and divorced, and then attended Harvard where she obtained a Ph.D. in English Literature. Despite the connection of ""The Women's Room"" to the Feminist Movement, French stated in a 1977 interview with ""The New York Times"": """"The Women's Room"""" is not about the women's movement... but"
"first use of genre term Chick lit •""A Loving Voice: A Caregiver's Book of Read-Aloud Stories for the Elderly"" (1992, coeditor) •""A Loving Voice II: A Caregiver's Book of More Read-Aloud Stories for the Elderly"" (1994, coeditor) Carolyn Banks Carolyn Banks (born February 9, 1941) is an American novelist, short-story writer, editor, and screenwriter residing in Bastrop, Texas. Her first national publication was her short story ""Idyll,"" which appeared in ""Voyages"" , a literary magazine, in 1968, alongside the work of Anaïs Nin, Josephine Miles and Theodore Weiss. In 1972, the oft-reprinted ""Growing Up Polish in Pittsburgh"" appeared in ""American"
"the truth. However an apparently psychic dream indicates that perhaps he will still have further adventures. The Indian in the Cupboard The Indian in the Cupboard is a low fantasy children's novel by the British writer Lynne Reid Banks, published in 1980 with illustrations by Robin Jacques (UK) and Brock Cole (US). It was later adapted as a 1995 children's film under the same name. The original book was followed by four sequels: ""The Return of the Indian"" (1985); ""The Secret of the Indian"" (1989); ""The Mystery of the Cupboard"" (1993); and ""The Key to the Indian"" (1998). All were"
"The Indian in the Cupboard The Indian in the Cupboard is a low fantasy children's novel by the British writer Lynne Reid Banks, published in 1980 with illustrations by Robin Jacques (UK) and Brock Cole (US). It was later adapted as a 1995 children's film under the same name. The original book was followed by four sequels: ""The Return of the Indian"" (1985); ""The Secret of the Indian"" (1989); ""The Mystery of the Cupboard"" (1993); and ""The Key to the Indian"" (1998). All were published by Doubleday Books in hardcover, then by Avon Books, now Harper Collins, in paperback. There"
"Mary"" (1915), ""Something That Begins with ""T"""" (1918), ""The Desert Moon Mystery"" (1927), ""Footprints"" (1929), ""Death Traps"" (1930), ""Three Kinds of Love"" (1931), ""October House"" (1932), ""The Meriwether Mystery"" (1932), ""The Hobgoblin Murder"" (1934), ""The Desert Lake Mystery"" (1936). She created the character of the ""seasoned crime analyst"" Lynn McDonald. Her book ""Footprints"" won the Scotland Yard Prize for the best Mystery and Detective Story of the Year; the contest was held by The Crime Club and the winner received the prize of $2500 ($ in dollars). The three Crime Club judges who chose ""Footprints"" were Will Cuppy, William Rose"
"Man Walks Into a Room Man Walks Into a Room, published in the United States by Doubleday on May 1, 2002, is the first novel by American writer Nicole Krauss. Set in 1957 and the present day, the novel, which is a meditation on memory and personal history, solitude and intimacy, tells the story of Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia University, who is found wandering in the Nevada desert with no memory of his previous life. Samson Greene is found wandering in the Nevada desert and is identified by the ID in his wallet as he"
"Carolyn Banks Carolyn Banks (born February 9, 1941) is an American novelist, short-story writer, editor, and screenwriter residing in Bastrop, Texas. Her first national publication was her short story ""Idyll,"" which appeared in ""Voyages"" , a literary magazine, in 1968, alongside the work of Anaïs Nin, Josephine Miles and Theodore Weiss. In 1972, the oft-reprinted ""Growing Up Polish in Pittsburgh"" appeared in ""American Mix"" (Lippincott). A version of this story appeared as ""The Virgin of Polish Hill"" in Plume's 1992 ""Catholic Girls"". Her stories appeared in several issues of Yellow Silk. Her first novel, ""Mr. Right"" (Viking), appeared in 1979."
"a costing clerk for a Chancery Lane, London, law firm during this period of his life. Banks decided to become a writer at the age of 11. He completed his first novel ""The Hungarian Lift-Jet"" at 16 and his second novel ""TTR"" (aka ""The Tashkent Rambler"") during his first year at Stirling University in 1972. Though he considered himself primarily a science fiction author, his lack of success at being published as such led him to pursue mainstream fiction, resulting in his first published novel ""The Wasp Factory"", which was published in 1984 when he was thirty. After the publication"
"The Farthest-Away Mountain The Farthest-Away Mountain is a children's novel, first published in 1976, by Lynne Reid Banks, a British author. The Farthest-Away Mountain is about a fourteen-year-old girl, who when she was small was asked what goals she has for her life. She responds that she will travel to the Farthest Away Mountain, meet and speak to a gargoyle, and marry a prince. One morning, she wakes up early having heard someone call to her in her dreams. She looks out the window and sees the Farthest-Away Mountain nod. She takes that as a sign that the time has"
"number of reference works. In addition to these roles, she also worked as social worker in a psychiatric hospital in Worcester and it was her experiences here and, as a patient of such an institution, that formed the basis for her debut novel ""The Ha-Ha"". The novel, which explores schizophrenia, received considerable critical acclaim, being awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, being adapted for the stage by Richard Eyre, and was later broadcast by the BBC on both radio and television. She continued to explore similar themes throughout the 1960s and 1970s via novels such as ""The Cold Country"","
"was a turning point for feminist fiction. While non-fiction works, such as ""The Feminine Mystique"", were helping to recruit feminists, feminist fiction was still not widely read and was considered reading for only ""hardcore"" feminists. French's ""The Women's Room"" changed that, as shown by its wide reception and ""New York Times"" bestseller ranking.{9) The Women's Room The Women's Room is the debut novel by American feminist author Marilyn French, published in 1977. It launched French as a major participant in the Feminist Movement and, while French states it is not autobiographical, the book reflects many autobiographical elements. For example, French,"
"first short stories, ""Untouchable"", at the age of sixteen in 1951. Following his high school education he went to his aunt's home in the Channel Islands (U.K.) in 1951 for better prospects and stayed there for two years. In London, he started writing his first novel, ""The Room on the Roof"", the semi-autobiographical story of the orphaned Anglo-Indian boy named Rusty; he did various jobs for a living. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, (1957) awarded to a British Commonwealth writer under 30. He moved to London and worked in a photo studio while searching for a publisher. After"
"""By 12, she had written a series of books about a stand-up bunny rabbit. At the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (now Notre Dame of Maryland University), nuns let her write short stories instead of a research paper for her senior thesis, allowing her to avoid the research she hated."" She legally changed her name to Kit Reed. Her first short story, ""The Wait"" (1958), was published by Anthony Boucher in ""The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction"". She is a Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of a five-year grant literary from the Abraham Woursell Foundation. ""The New York Times"
"this author's award-winning debut."" The Free Lance–Star described it as ""a book that melds the style of a Bob Woodward and a Janet Evanovich."" Parks' third book, ""The Girl Next Door,"" delves into the struggles of the newspaper industry and how a contentious union negotiation ends up imperiling a woman described as being like the girl next door. The novel won the Lefty Award for best humorous mystery. In doing so, Parks became the first author to have won the Lefty, Nero and Shamus Awards. ""The Girl Next Door"" also received a starred review from ""Booklist,"" which called it ""..."
"The Cutting Room (novel) The Cutting Room is the debut novel of Scottish author Louise Welsh. The book was first published in 2002 by Edinburgh-based publisher Canongate. It has won several awards including the 2002 Saltire Society First Book Award. The novel, set in Glasgow, revolves around the central character, Rilke, an auctioneer who has agreed to quickly process and sell an inventory of largely valuable contents belonging to a recently deceased old man in exchange for a considerable fee. While sorting through some of the possessions in an attic, he comes across a collection of violent and potentially snuff"
"years, she had begun writing novels. In 1929, she published her first novel, ""The Patient in Room 18"", which introduced her series character Nurse Sarah Keate and her boyfriend Detective Lance O'Leary. A second novel, ""While the Patient Slept"", also featuring Keate, received the $5000 Scotland Yard Prize in 1931. Four years later, Eberhart's alma mater presented her with an honorary doctorate. By the end of the 1930s, Eberhart had become the leading female crime novelist in the United States and was one of the highest-paid female crime novelists in the world, next to Agatha Christie. She was one of"
"The Room on the Roof The Room on the Roof is a novel written by Ruskin Bond. It was Bond's first literary venture. Bond wrote the novel when he was seventeen and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957.. The novel revolves around Rusty, an orphaned seventeen-year-old Anglo-Indian boy living in Dehradun. Due to his guardian, Mr. Harrison's strict ways, he runs away from his home to live with his Indian friends. Rusty,an Anglo-Indian boy was born in Kausauli in Himachal Pradesh in 1934. This is a story about an orphaned boy, from the Anglo-Indian descent, living in"
"The Flame and the Flower The Flame and the Flower (published 1972) is the debut work of romance novelist Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. The first modern ""bodice ripper"" romance novel, the book revolutionized the historical romance genre. It was also the first full-length romance novel to be published first in paperback rather than hardback. As a child, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss relished creating her own stories, and by age six was telling herself stories at night to help fall asleep. After she married, Woodiwiss continued to think of plots. Several times she attempted to write a novel, but each time stopped in"
"from Susan Sontag and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The movie rights to the novel were optioned by Richard Gere. Man Walks Into a Room Man Walks Into a Room, published in the United States by Doubleday on May 1, 2002, is the first novel by American writer Nicole Krauss. Set in 1957 and the present day, the novel, which is a meditation on memory and personal history, solitude and intimacy, tells the story of Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia University, who is found wandering in the Nevada desert with no"
"what we expect English people to be but what they so seldom are"" She never married. Lettice Cooper Lettice Ulpha Cooper OBE, (3 September 1897 in Eccles, Lancashire – 24 July 1994 in Coltishall, Norfolk), was an English writer. She began to write stories when she was seven, and studied Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1918. She returned home after Oxford to work for her family's engineering firm and wrote her first novel, ""The Lighted Room"" in 1925. She spent a year as associate editor at ""Time and Tide"". Her novel ""The New House"" (1936) describes the"
"Princess of the Mountain, completing her final goal. The Farthest-Away Mountain The Farthest-Away Mountain is a children's novel, first published in 1976, by Lynne Reid Banks, a British author. The Farthest-Away Mountain is about a fourteen-year-old girl, who when she was small was asked what goals she has for her life. She responds that she will travel to the Farthest Away Mountain, meet and speak to a gargoyle, and marry a prince. One morning, she wakes up early having heard someone call to her in her dreams. She looks out the window and sees the Farthest-Away Mountain nod. She takes"
"writing. University isn't for everyone and I discovered that the other writers I know didn't finish their courses either. It was certainly the best thing that happened to me."" Banks' first novel was released in 2004, titled ""The Big Blind"". ""The Big Blind"" was inspired by Banks' prior employment as a croupier. His work ""Saturday's Child"" was published in 2006 in the UK by Polygon, and in the US by Harcourt. Protagonist character, private investigator Callum Innes, first appeared in ""Saturday's Child"", and was the focus of ""Donkey Punch"". Subsequent books include ""No More Heroes"" (2008), ""Gun"" (2008), ""Beast of"
"and a sequel about Charlotte Brontë, ""Path to the Silent Country"". Banks was born in London, the only child of James and Muriel Reid Banks. She was evacuated to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, during World War II and returned after the war was over. She attended St Teresa's School Effingham in Surrey. Prior to becoming a writer, Banks was an actress, and also worked as a television journalist in Britain, one of the first women to do so. In 1962 Banks emigrated to Israel, where she taught for eight years on an Israeli kibbutz Yas'ur. In 1965 she married Chaim Stephenson"
"said: ""This is a chillingly atmospheric horror story with real emotional depth. I’ve tried to stay true to Rachel Klein’s novel in the way it re-works and updates the Gothic tradition and the whole notion of girl-on-girl vampires."" The Moth Diaries The Moth Diaries is the debut novel of Rachel Klein, published in 2002. At an exclusively girls' boarding school, a 16-year-old unnamed narrator, records her most intimate thoughts in a diary. The object of her growing obsession is her roommate, Lucy Blake, and Lucy's friendship with their new and disturbing classmate, Ernessa. Around her swirl dark rumors, suspicions, and"
"The Wasp Factory The Wasp Factory is the first novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1984. Before the publication of ""The Wasp Factory,"" Banks had written several science fiction novels that had not been accepted for publication. Banks decided to try a more mainstream novel in the hopes that it would be more readily accepted, and wrote about a psychopathic teenager living on a remote Scottish island. According to Banks, this allowed him to treat the story as something resembling science fiction – the island could be envisaged as a planet, and Frank, the protagonist, almost as an"
"""Daily Mail"" and his many other publications. Her first serial, ""Confessions of a Stage-Struck Girl,"" appeared in ""Forget-Me-Not"" (August 11-November 17, 1894), partly inspired by her own earlier career as an actress in America, as was her first novel, ""The Barnstormers"" (1897), written at the suggestion of S. R. Crockett upon hearing her describe some of her theatrical experiences at a dinner party. Her second novel, ""A Woman in Grey"" (1898) established her reputation as the successor to Wilkie Collins. A third, ""The Newspaper Girl"" (1899), exploited Elizabeth Banks's notorious ""stunt"" journalism, turning some of the same stratagems to humorous"
"""A Pasteboard Crown"" (1902); ""Stage Confidences"" (1902); ""The Trouble Woman"" (1904), fiction; ""The Life of a Star"" (1906); ""Left in Charge"" (1907); ""New East Lynne"" (1908); ""A Strange Surprise"" (1910); and ""Dressing Room Receptions"" (1911). In her book ""Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections"" she recounts her meeting with John Wilkes Booth the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. Complete blindness overtook her in 1910, and her old age was embittered by poverty. The house in which she had lived for 37 years was sold in 1914, and Morris moved to Whitestone, Long Island. After becoming a member of"
"book entitled ""Tyra's Beauty, Inside and Out"". She announced in May 2010 that she would be writing a novel, titled ""Modelland"", loosely based on her own modelling experience. It was published in September 2011, intended to be the first of a planned three-part series; ""Modelland"" topped ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list in October 2011. In 2018, Banks and her mother, Carolyn London, co-authored a book entitled ""Perfect is Boring"". In August 2016, Banks accepted a position as a personal branding guest lecturer at Stanford University. Banks dated Norwegian photographer Erik Asla during the 2010s, and in January 2016"
"and in the end she solves the case in the manner of the most experienced detective (which she is not). The Red Room (French novel) The Red Room is a psychological thriller novel by Nicci French, the pseudonym of English husband-and-wife team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. It was first published in 2001. Kit Quinn is a psychologist who ends up scarred after meeting a troubled arrested man. When she goes back to work after the incident she is asked to review a case for the police, in which the man who scarred her is the main suspect. Against everyone"
"face that is.It turns out to be April (who he thought was Alexa), a girl with a deep past regarding her family and their problems. They left her for dead 14 years ago and she's been barely surviving in the attic since. Room One Room One is a children's book by Andrew Clements. Part of his School series, it was released by Simon & Schuster in 2006. It won the 2007 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery. ""Room One"" is a story about sixth grader Ted Hammond. He is an avid mystery fan and detective. But on one of his"
"film version of the novel were at an advanced stage in 2004. The film was set to star Robert Carlyle as Rilke with a screenplay from Andrea Gibb, and was due to be filmed on location in the West End of Glasgow, but the project failed to materialise. Carlyle did, however, contribute to an audiobook version of the novel in 2006. The Cutting Room (novel) The Cutting Room is the debut novel of Scottish author Louise Welsh. The book was first published in 2002 by Edinburgh-based publisher Canongate. It has won several awards including the 2002 Saltire Society First Book"
"perform as characters in the novel, in a short film based on the book, with part 1 of the film broadcast in that episode, part 2 was broadcast in the season finale. ""Modelland"" is the first installment of a proposed trilogy. Modelland Modelland is a young adult novel written by model Tyra Banks, published in 2011. A young, awkward-looking girl by the name of Tookie De La Crème is invited to attend the legendary boarding school Modelland for a chance to join the Intoxibellas, the most celebrated models in all the world. Along the way she meets a plus-sized girl"