"1976 novel ""Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less"". Ladies vs Ricky Bahl Ladies vs Ricky Bahl is a 2011 Indian romantic comedy film directed by Maneesh Sharma and produced by Aditya Chopra of Yash Raj Films. It stars Ranveer Singh opposite Anushka Sharma in lead roles along with Dipannita Sharma, Aditi Sharma and debutant Parineeti Chopra. Ranveer plays a conman named Ricky Bahl who cons women until three of these women unite to con him back. The story was inspired by Jeffrey Archer's novel ""Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less"". It was released on 9 December"
"down as an MP at the October 1974 general election. While he was a witness in the Aquablast case in Toronto in 1975, Archer was accused of stealing three suits from a department store. Archer denied the accusation for many years, but in the late 1990s he finally acknowledged that he had taken the suits, although he claimed that at the time he had not realised he had left the shop. No charges were ever brought. Archer wrote his first book, ""Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less"", in the autumn of 1974, as a means of avoiding bankruptcy."
"Helen Norris Helen Norris Bell (June 22, 1916 – November 18, 2013) was an American novelist and short story author who was Poet Laureate of Alabama from 1999 to 2003. Although most of Norris' work can be considered southern literature she also wrote many stories set in many places around the world, often preferring to write what she imagined to what she knew. She began writing as a child and graduated from University of Alabama in 1938. Her first novel, ""Something More Than Earth"", was published in 1940. The book, though launched with a party attended by Margaret Mitchell, was"
"'I Was a Winter Sport.'"" In all, Binchy published 16 novels, four short-story collections, a play and a novella. A 17th novel, ""A Week in Winter"", was published posthumously. Her literary career began with two books of short stories: ""Central Line"" (1978) and ""Victoria Line"" (1980). She published her debut novel ""Light a Penny Candle"" in 1982. In 1983, it sold for the largest sum ever paid for a first novel: £52,000. The timing was fortuitous, as Binchy and her husband were two months behind with the mortgage at the time. However, the prolific Binchy – who joked that she"
"Less Than Zero (novel) Less Than Zero is the debut novel of Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1985. It was his first published effort, released while he was 21 and still a student at Bennington College. Titled after the Elvis Costello song of the same name, the novel follows the life of Clay, a rich, young college student who has returned to his hometown of Los Angeles, California for winter break circa 1984. Through first-person narration, Clay describes his progressive alienation from the culture around him, loss of faith in his friends, and his meditations on events in his recent"
"Illinois, where he went to school. After serving three years in the US Navy, he attended the Stenotype School of Chicago, after which he found employment as a court reporter for 12 years. Having begun writing in his teens, he published various pieces in publications including the ""Chicago Defender"", ""Ebony"", ""Chat Noir"", before the publication in 1965 of his first novel, ""Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable"". His second novel, ""Hog Butcher"" was filmed in 1975 as ""Cornbread, Earl and Me"". In 1970 he published ""World of Nothing: Two Novellas"", and 1972 the autobiographical novel ""We Can’t Breathe"". In 1977"
"In his junior year, he switched majors from history to English, earning both a B.A. (1973) and an M.A. (1974) from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. From 1974 until 1977 he worked as a substitute teacher while writing a novel (""Clarinets and Candles"", unpublished) and the beginnings of a second. From 1974 to 1978 he was also a member of the Colorado Concert Ballet, dancing a variety of minor roles. Unable to find a full-time teaching position, he began working at ABC Books in Denver in 1976. Two years later he opened his own independent bookstore, Moore Books,"
"time that he wrote his first and most notable novel, ""No Pain Like This Body"", published in 1972. Described by David Chariandy and ""an unusually strong first novel"", it is the vivid story of a young boy growing up in a small Caribbean rice-growing community. The book focuses on the day-to-day struggles of a single family through illness, storm, and violence during the August rainy season. The writing is raw and often naïve yet manages to create a visceral experience. His second book, ""Yesterdays"" (posthumously published, 1974), was a much more upbeat book about a young man attempting to launch"
"and the Kardashians."" Less Than Zero (novel) Less Than Zero is the debut novel of Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1985. It was his first published effort, released while he was 21 and still a student at Bennington College. Titled after the Elvis Costello song of the same name, the novel follows the life of Clay, a rich, young college student who has returned to his hometown of Los Angeles, California for winter break circa 1984. Through first-person narration, Clay describes his progressive alienation from the culture around him, loss of faith in his friends, and his meditations on events"
"money, Nin, Henry Miller and some of their friends began in the 1940s to write erotic and pornographic narratives for an anonymous ""collector"" for a dollar a page, somewhat as a joke. (It is not clear whether Miller actually wrote these stories or merely allowed his name to be used.) Nin considered the characters in her erotica to be extreme caricatures and never intended the work to be published, but changed her mind in the early 1970s and allowed them to be published as ""Delta of Venus"" and ""Little Birds"". In 2016, a previously-undiscovered collection of erotica, ""Auletris"", was published"
"career as a writer really began, however, when he made a bet with his wife that he could write a better mystery novel than the ones they were reading during a rainy family vacation. He drew on his professional experience as a CPA and wrote his first novel, ""Death and Taxes"", featuring San Francisco tax expert and reluctant detective James ""Whit"" Whitney. It was published by Macmillan in 1941 and he won five dollars from Elva. Three more Whitney novels soon followed: ""Shear the Black Sheep"" (Macmillan, 1942), ""Bullets for the Bridegroom"" (Macmillan, 1944) and ""It Ain't Hay"" (Simon &"
"factory. He was investigated by the FBI because of his early Communist Party affiliation. These events were fodder for his semi-autobiographical debut novel, ""Now And On Earth"" (1942). It established his bleak, pessimistic tone, and it was positively reviewed but sold poorly. It featured little of the violence and crime that later permeated his writing. In his second novel, ""Heed The Thunder"" (1946), Thompson centered it on crime. It explores a warped and violent Nebraska family, partly modeled on his own extended clan. Gaining little attention, Thompson gravitated to the less-prestigious but more lucrative crime fiction genre with ""Nothing More"
"Light a Penny Candle Light a Penny Candle (1982) is Maeve Binchy's first novel, which follows two girls growing up during and in the aftermath of World War II. London was a very dangerous place to live during World War II, and many children were evacuated to Ireland or the United States. Only child Elizabeth White is sent to live with her mother's childhood friend and her large and bustling family, the O'Connors, in Ireland. Although the mothers were childhood friends, their relationship has become one-sided with Elizabeth's mother, Violet, rarely corresponding and Aisling's mother, Eileen, remembering their closeness with"
"1970s with publication of his first novel, ""A Wind Is Rising"", in 1976 by Anthelion Press of San Francisco. It is the story of a small community on the California coast that galvanizes to defeat a huge commercial development proposed by out-of-state interests. In a 1976 review of ""A Wind Is Rising"", the ""Monterey Peninsula Herald"" said ""the novel is well-constructed [and] should appeal to the general reader, but particularly to Peninsulans because of the transparency of the author's disguise of several Carmel residents."" The ""San Francisco Review of Books"" said ""confrontations between the Carmelites and their adversaries make for"
"write fiction from an early age, she was not published as a writer of fiction until the late 1970s. During this decade she wrote several radio plays, receiving many rejections, but on 29 April 1977, her radio play ""The Penny Ha-penny Stamp"" was broadcast. However, with the publication of her short story, ""Call me Pinkie"", in ""The Sydney Morning Herald"" in 1978, she moved from writing drama to prose fiction. Between 1979 and 1980, she won nine awards for her short stories. She wrote fiction full-time from 1982, after the publication of ""The Home Girls"". Due to her late start"
"first novel, ""Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill"", appeared serially in the ""Australian Journal"" in 1888, and was published in London in 1889 under the pseudonym of Tasma. It had an immediate success and was followed by ""In her Earliest Youth"" (1890), ""A Sydney Sovereign and other Tales"" (1890), The ""Penance of Portia James"" (1891), ""A Knight of the White Feather"" (1892), ""Not Counting the Cost"" (1895), and ""A Fiery Ordeal"" (1897). Couvreur's husband died in 1894 and Madame Couvreur took up his duties as correspondent of ""The Times"" at Brussels. She proved to be ""a conscientious painstaking journalist, keenly alive"
"non-fiction. His debut was the short story collection ""Dommedag for deg"" (1952), and he also released the novel ""Stedfortredere"" (1981). His non-fiction books were mostly from his period as London correspondent, including ""Den Norske Klub i London 75 år"" (1962), ""Er de gale?"" (1967) and ""Londonguide"" (with Anne-Marie Bang, 1970). He was a member of the Norwegian Authors' Union for some years, but backed out because he was more comfortable with the title ""journalist"". He received the Golden Pen award from the Riksmål Society in 1990. Bang was active in Amnesty International and Nei til atomvåpen. He was a Roman"
"From aged 28 to 35 he worked as a photocopier salesman, an insurance salesman, an asset finance salesman and a commercial mortgage salesman and wrote book after book in the evenings. Though his novels have always been commercial, Jeff has endeavoured to ensure they always have the right amount of literary polish, having been influenced by people like Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy in particular. It took him fifteen years and eight books before his first crime novel ""Sleep No More"" was accepted by Bill Massey at Headline in London. After that two more ""Aden Vanner"""
"writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, who influenced his early development as a fiction writer. The year 1923 saw his first published work, a slim volume titled ""Three Stories and Ten Poems"", followed the next year by a collection of short vignettes, ""in our time"" (without capitals). Hoping to have ""in our time"" published in New York, in 1924 he began writing stories to add to the volume. On October 5, 1925, the expanded edition of ""In Our Time"" (with conventional capitalization in the title) was published by Boni &"
"His first fiction sale was the short story ""And Not Quite Human,"" published in the September 1953 issue of ""Beyond Fantasy Fiction"". His first published novel was ""The Color of Hate"" in 1960. He had 20 more novels and collections published (over half of them in the series featuring Indiana circuit judge Donald Robak, which began with 1971's ""Deliver Us to Evil"") and around 100 short stories. His collaborators in science fiction included Alexei Panshin and Harlan Ellison; he co-wrote one mystery novel (""Loose Coins"") with fellow Indiana prosecuting attorney Guy M. Townsend. His last novel, ""Snowbird's Blood"", was published"
"1987, her first short story was published in ""Dinakaran"". Her first short story collection to be published in book form was 'Theyumo sooriyan'. She is a prolific writer who has written more than 300 short stories and a number of novels and poems. Her short stories ""Theiyumo Sooriyan"" (Will the Sun Wane) and ""Arasigal aluvathillai"" (Queens don’t rule) won the Government of Tamil Nadu's best short story prize for 1988-89. Her novel ""Pathini Penn"" (1983) was made into a film. Some of her works including ""Vaarthai thavari vittai"", ""Arasigal aluvathillai"" and ""Muppathu kodi mugangal"" have been adapted for television. She"
"Bret Easton Ellis Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, and short story writer. His works have been translated into 27 languages. He was at first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. Ellis employs a technique of linking novels with common, recurring characters. At the age of 21, his first novel, the controversial bestseller ""Less Than Zero"" (1985), was published by"
"an eight-episode series on Hulu, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. Celeste Ng Celeste Ng (; Chinese name: 伍綺詩) (born 1980) is an American author. Her first novel, ""Everything I Never Told You"", was the Amazon Book of the year in 2014, and her short story, ""Girls at Play"", won a Pushcart Prize in 2012. Ng's second novel, ""Little Fires Everywhere"", was published in 2017. In March 2018, ""Entertainment Weekly"" proclaimed that Ng has become ""the novelist of the moment."" Ng was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1980. Her parents moved to the US from Hong Kong in the late"
"and won The Peden Prize for Best Short Story. A slightly modified version of the story appears in her 2017 novel ""Pachinko."" Lee's short stories have also been featured on NPR's ""Selected Shorts"". Her debut novel ""Free Food for Millionaires"" was published in 2007. It was named one of the Top 10 Novels of the Year by ""The Times"", ""The Times of London"", NPR's ""Fresh Air"", ""USA Today"", a notable novel by the ""San Francisco Chronicle"", a ""New York Times"" Editor's Choice, was a selection for the ""Wall Street Journal"" Juggler Book Club, and a No. 1 Book Sense pick."
"32. His first piece of work was a 250,000 word story about polar bears for his wife, Jay, to accompany a stuffed polar bear he had bought her as a Christmas present. He didn't write another story for seven years, until he heard about a competition to write a story for young children with a prize of £2,000. The resulting book, ""A Hole at the Pole"", also about polar bears, didn't win – but he sent it off to a publisher, who accepted it. His first children's novel, ""Fly, Cherokee, Fly"", was published in 1998 and subsequently shortlisted for the"
"One for the Money (novel) One for the Money is the first novel by Janet Evanovich featuring the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. It was published in 1994 in the United States and in 1995 in Great Britain. Like its successors, ""Two for the Dough"" and ""Three To Get Deadly"", ""One for the Money"" is a long-time best-seller, appearing for 75 consecutive weeks on the ""USA Today"" list of 150 best-selling novels, peaking at number 13. Before this novel, Evanovich wrote 11 category romance novels. She then ""ran out of sexual positions and decided to move into the mystery genre."" Before"
"his first novel ""Be More Chill"" was published. A review for the ""New York Times Book Review"" said that ""Be More Chill"", which is about a high school student named Jeremy Heere who gets a supercomputer pill in his brain that makes him cool, ""is so accurate that it should come with a warning."" Others have criticized the book for its language and lack of a clear moral. ""Be More Chill"" was later adapted into a musical in summer 2015 with lyrics by Joe Iconis and premiered at New Jersey’s Two River Theatre. Three years later, an Off-Broadway production opened"
"One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (novel) One, Two, Buckle My Shoe is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in November 1940, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1941 under the title of The Patriotic Murders. A paperback edition in the US by Dell books in 1953 changed the title again to An Overdose of Death. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) while the United States edition retailed at $2.00. It is one of several of Christie's crime fiction"
"Oates was a member of the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1997 to 2016. Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1962 and has since published over 40 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel ""them"" (1969), two O. Henry Awards, and the National Humanities Medal. Her novels ""Black Water"" (1992), ""What I"
"publishing. She continues to influence the literary world through her revealing memoirs about her editorial career. The first book of her own writing to appear was the short story collection ""An Unavoidable Delay"" (1962), and she has published two further works of fiction: a novel entitled ""Don't Look at Me Like That"" (1967) and in 2011 another volume of stories, ""Midsummer Night in the Workhouse"". She is best known, however, for her books of memoirs, the first of which was ""Instead of a Letter"" in 1963. These memoirs were not written in chronological order, ""Yesterday Morning"" (2002) being the account"
"to Washington, D.C., and beginning a career as a writer. Her first novel was ""Animal Husbandry"" (1998), which was made into the 2001 romantic comedy ""Someone Like You"", starring Ashley Judd and Hugh Jackman. Her 2006 novel ""Piece of Work"" (described in ""USA Today"" as ""one part pleasant, one part unoriginal"") was optioned for a movie screenplay by Tom Hanks's Playtone. She is often described as a writer of chick lit, and described herself as ""heartbroken, urban, single, postfeminist"", which prompted her to write so other people would know that ""I am not the only loser in the world who"
"the pen name of ""Mrs Olinthus Lobb"" but for most of her work she used her own name. In 1869 she married a surgeon and collector named George Parr and they lived in Kensington. The following year ""Dorothy Fox"", her first novel, was published. The story of Quaker life was another success and an American publisher paid her an advance of £300 against her next novel. Her next two novels were published in 1874 and 1875 but neither of them were very successful. Her next novel was titled ""Adam and Eve"" and this was another success in 1880. This novel"
"a subversive commingling of high and low culture. In 1973, he published ""Gravity's Rainbow"", a leading work in this genre, which won the National Book Award and was unanimously nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction that year. His other major works include his debut, ""V."" (1963), ""The Crying of Lot 49"" (1966), ""Mason & Dixon"" (1997), and ""Against the Day"" (2006). Toni Morrison, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, writing in a distinctive lyrical prose style, published her controversial debut novel, ""The Bluest Eye"", to critical acclaim in 1970. Coming on the heels of the signing of the"