"Birdsong (play) Birdsong was a 2010 adaptation of the novel of the same title by Sebastian Faulks. The text was written by Rachel Wagstaff and the premiere production was directed by Trevor Nunn. That production began previews at the Comedy Theatre in London on September 18, 2010, and opened on September 28, 2010. The West End stage production's cast included Ben Barnes as Stephen Wraysford, Genevieve O'Reilly as Isabelle, Nicholas Farrell as René Azaire, Iain Mitchell as Bérard, Lee Ross as Jack Firebrace and Zoe Waites as Jeanne. Other cast members included Owain Arthur, Billy Carter, Florence Hall, Paul Hawkyard,"
"Human Traces Human Traces is a 2005 novel by Sebastian Faulks, best known as the British author of ""Birdsong"" and ""Charlotte Gray"". The novel took Faulks five years to write. It tells of two friends who set up a pioneering asylum in 19th-century Austria, in tandem with the evolution of psychiatry and the start of the First World War. Tracing the intertwined lives of Doctors Thomas Midwinter, who is English, and Jacques Rebière, from Brittany, France, ""Human Traces"" explores the development of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in the late 19th century, by way of excursions into first alienism then metaphysics, human"
"things plastered all over the walls), the act of finishing it felt like a bereavement. Human Traces Human Traces is a 2005 novel by Sebastian Faulks, best known as the British author of ""Birdsong"" and ""Charlotte Gray"". The novel took Faulks five years to write. It tells of two friends who set up a pioneering asylum in 19th-century Austria, in tandem with the evolution of psychiatry and the start of the First World War. Tracing the intertwined lives of Doctors Thomas Midwinter, who is English, and Jacques Rebière, from Brittany, France, ""Human Traces"" explores the development of psychiatry and psychoanalysis"
"Israel, Sweden, Estonia, Japan, Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, Finland and the Netherlands. Globally, sales were strong, and as of 2010, the novel had sold over 3 million copies. ""Birdsong"" has an episodic structure, and is split into seven sections which move between three different periods of time before, during and after the war in the Stephen Wraysford plot, and three different windows of time in the 1970s Benson plot. The first stage starts in pre-war Amiens, France. Stephen Wraysford visits and lives with René Azaire, his wife Isabelle and their children. Azaire teaches Stephen about the French textile industry. He witnesses"
"made into a film starring Cate Blanchett and directed by Gillian Armstrong. In 2010 a stage version of ""Birdsong"", adapted by Rachel Wagstaff (who had previously adapted ""The Girl at the Lion d'Or"" for radio) and directed by Trevor Nunn, opened at the Comedy Theatre in London; the production ran for only 4 months. It was subsequently rewritten by Wagstaff and made four successful nationwide tours. In 2012, ""Birdsong"" was made into a two-part BBC TV serial, written by Abi Morgan, directed by Philip Martin and starring Eddie Redmayne. This followed several attempts to film the novel. Sebastian Faulks Sebastian"
"a success, with international impact and attention. The hardback print-run, first issued in 1993, sold 14,000 copies. The novel featured in many ""Best of the Year lists"" in the United Kingdom during 1993. Subsequently, the novel has become one of the most checked-out works from British libraries. Though Faulks's fourth published novel in the United Kingdom, ""Birdsong"" was only his second republished in the United States. In New Zealand and Australia, the novel was popular, reaching best seller and ""what's hot"" lists. The novel was also sold in translation in Italy, France, Spain, Latin America, Germany, Portugal, Brazil, Denmark, Poland,"
"novel a few weeks before her death in July 2012. Her editor, Carole Baron, did the ""final polish"". The novel was published by Orion in November 2012. It set a record for the most pre-orders ever for a book on Amazon.com. A Week in Winter A Week in Winter is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was published posthumously in 2012. The novel centers around the opening of a guest house in a fictional western Ireland coastal town called Stoneybridge. The personal stories of the proprietress of the guest house, Chicky Starr, the caretakers, and the guests are told in"
"Enid Blyton Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Blyton's books are still enormously popular, and have been translated into 90 languages; her first book, ""Child Whispers"", a 24-page collection of poems, was published in 1922. She wrote on a wide range of topics including education, natural history, fantasy, mystery, and biblical narratives and is best remembered today for her Noddy, Famous Five, Secret Seven and Malory Towers series. Following the commercial success of her"
"article, ""Finding Time to Write,"" he wrote: ""A Face in the Crowd"" is a novella by Stephen King and O'Nan, originally published as an e-book on August 21, 2012, as well as an audiobook, read by Craig Wasson. In 2015, O'Nan released a novel entitled ""West of Sunset"", about the last days of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald as he moves out to Los Angeles after being ruined financially and experiencing health problems, after also his wife is put in an insane asylum. Filmmaker James Ponsoldt has been in negotiations to write and direct a film adaptation of the book, with"
"Peter Dickinson Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (16 December 1927 – 16 December 2015) was an English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories. Dickinson won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for both ""Tulku"" (1979) and ""City of Gold"" (1980), each being recognised as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Through 2012 he is one of seven writers to win two Carnegies; no one has won three. He was also a highly commended runner-up for ""Eva"" (1988) and four times a commended runner-up. For his contributions as a"
"""Birdsong"", ""The Girl at the Lion d'Or"", ""Human Traces"" and ""A Possible Life""), four by Michael Ridpath (""Trading Reality"", ""Final Venture"", ""Free to Trade"", and ""The Marketmaker""), two by George Orwell (""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" and ""Homage to Catalonia""), two by Mary Wesley (""An Imaginative Experience"" and ""Part of the Furniture""), two by Robert Goddard (""Closed Circle"" and ""In Pale Battalions"") and several compilations of poetry ""(Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats"", ""Bright Star"", ""The Collected Works of Shelley"", ""Seven Ages"", ""Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age"" and ""A Shropshire Lad)"". Also ""Faust"", ""Bomber"", ""Doctor Who: The Vengeance"
"Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include ""The Jungle Book"" (1894), ""Kim"" (1901), and many short stories, including ""The Man Who Would Be King"" (1888). His poems include ""Mandalay"" (1890), ""Gunga Din"" (1890), ""The Gods of the Copybook Headings"" (1919), ""The White Man's Burden"" (1899), and ""If—"" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of"
"A Week in Winter A Week in Winter is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was published posthumously in 2012. The novel centers around the opening of a guest house in a fictional western Ireland coastal town called Stoneybridge. The personal stories of the proprietress of the guest house, Chicky Starr, the caretakers, and the guests are told in succeeding chapters, with the common theme being each character's search for self-acceptance. Binchy also draws a contrast between the modern-day attachment to cell phones and social media and the ""old world"", isolated character of a coastal Irish town. Binchy completed the"
"Sunday Telegraph"", ""The Times Literary Supplement"", ""The Spectator"" and ""The Scotsman"". American and other international press reviews were similarly positive. The novel's popular reception was similarly positive. ""Birdsong"" came 13th in a 2003 BBC survey called the Big Read, which aimed to find Britain's favourite book. It received an ""Also Mentioned"" credit in ""The Observer"" 2005 poll of critics and writers to find the ""Best British book of the last 25 years"" (1980–2005). ""Birdsong"" was listed in ""The Telegraph"" as one of the most consistently high selling books of 1998–2008, continuously in the top 5,000 sales figures. Reviews of the"
"scholar Jerome de Groot calls ""Birdsong"" one of the first novels of its kind, creating a trend in the 1990s of literary fiction rethinking and reflecting on the World Wars and their historical legacy. Michael Gorra, a professor of English literature, argues that Faulks seeks to demonstrate that ""the past can be recovered, its code can be broken; it can be used to add meaning to contemporary life. Its limitations can be overcome and its promises fulfilled because we know it can heal."" The deliberate hiding of Stephen's stories, remaining silent to his family after the war's end and encoding"
"""The Girl at the Lion d'Or"", was published in 1989. This was followed by ""Birdsong"" (1993), and ""Charlotte Gray"" (1998). The latter two were best-sellers, and ""Charlotte Gray"" was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In April 2003 ""Birdsong"" came 13th in the BBC's ""Big Read"" initiative which aimed to identify Britain's best loved novels. In 2007, Faulks published ""Engleby"". Set in Cambridge in the 1970s, it is narrated by Cambridge University fresher Mike Engleby. Engleby is a loner, and the reader is led to suspect that he may be unreliable, particularly when a fellow student disappears. Faulks"
"Florence Engel Randall Florence Engel Randall (October 18, 1917 – September 4, 1997) was an American author. Randall wrote a total of five novels, as well as over one hundred short stories throughout her career. Randall is perhaps best known for her novel ""A Watcher in the Woods"" (1976), which was made into a film of the same name by Walt Disney Pictures in 1980 and a television film of the same name by Lifetime Television in 2017. Randall was born on October 17, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York City. Randall wrote multiple young adult novels, including ""The Almost Year"","
"Sunday"" in 1989; in the same year he published ""The Girl at the Lion d'Or"", the first of his historical novels set in France. In 1991 he left ""The Independent"", though wrote for various newspapers as a freelancer for the next ten years. Following the success of ""Birdsong"" (1993), Faulks quit journalism to write full-time. He has since published eight novels, the most recent being ""A Possible Life"" (2012), ""Where My Heart Used to Beat"" (2015) and ""Paris Echo"" (2018). Faulks was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1993 and appointed CBE for services to literature"
"ultimately undermines issues of class politics” (p. 277). Adiga's second book, ""Between the Assassinations"", was released in India in November 2008 and in the US and UK in mid-2009; twelve interlinked short stories comprise this book. His second novel and third published book, ""Last Man in Tower"", was published in the UK in 2011. His third novel, ""Selection Day"", was published on 8 September 2016. Aravind Adiga Aravind Adiga (born 23 October 1974) is an Indo-Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, ""The White Tiger"", won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) on"
"Firesong Firesong is a book written by William Nicholson first published in 2002, and is the third part of the ""Wind On Fire"" trilogy. ""Firesong"" begins with the Manth people deliberating over what action to take, now that the Mastery is in ruins. After the defeat of the Master, alone and displaced, they seek a new homeland but have no real destination and very little food. Ira Hath, descendant of Ira Manth, and a great prophetess who is also Kestrel and Bowman's mother, has a vision of the Manth people's true homeland. Throughout the book the Manth people travel with"
"stories), non-fiction, and poetry. Several of his works were collaborations. Works Resources Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include ""The Jungle Book"" (1894), ""Kim"" (1901), and many short stories, including ""The Man Who Would Be King"" (1888). His poems include ""Mandalay"" (1890), ""Gunga Din"" (1890), ""The Gods of the Copybook Headings"" (1919), ""The White Man's Burden"" (1899), and ""If—"" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in"
"Darkwing Darkwing (known as Dusk in the United Kingdom) is a young adult fantasy novel by Canadian author Kenneth Oppel. It is the prequel and fourth book of the ""Silverwing"" series, and takes place 65 million years before the events of the first book. It describes the origins of the war between the birds and the beasts. Set 65 million years ago, at the very beginning of the Paleocene epoch, a huge natural disaster has wiped out most of the dinosaurs (referred to as ""Saurians"" within the context of the story). A few managed to survive in the aftermath, albeit"
"Brad Kessler Brad Kessler (born 1963) is an American novelist. His most recent work is 2009's ""Goat Song"". Brad Kessler is the author of the critically acclaimed novel ""Birds in Fall"" which won the 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Part of ""Birds in Fall"" was previously published in the Spring 2006 ""The Kenyon Review"". and was named one of the best ten books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times. He is the recipient of the 2008 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2007 Whiting Award, as well as awards from the National Endowment for"
"Butterfly Winter Butterfly Winter was the seventh novel published by the late Canadian writer W.P. Kinsella. The story of Julio and Esteban Pimental, twins whose divine destiny for baseball begins with games of catch in the womb, the novel marks a return to form, combining his long-held passions of baseball and magical realism. ""Butterfly Winter"" was the first fiction published by Kinsella after a 14-year hiatus, after he suffered brain damage from a car accident. It was published on September 1, 2011, by 'Winnipeg, Manitoba's Enfield and Wizenty, a small press specializing in limited edition hardcover books. The unpublished manuscript"
"Richard Pike Bissell Richard Pike Bissell (June 27, 1913 in Dubuque, Iowa – May 4, 1977) was an American author of short stories and novels. His third book, and second novel, ""7½ Cents"", was adapted into the Broadway musical ""The Pajama Game"". This won him (along with co-author George Abbott) the 1955 Tony Award for Best Musical. He wrote a book about the experience called ""Say, Darling"", which chronicled the ins and outs of a broadway musical production and featured characters based on those (such as Harold Prince) he worked with; this book was ""also"" turned into a musical, also"
"Song"", Kessler noted: ""I started as a journalist, but I always wanted to write fiction."" He has taught at The New School in New York City and in the MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. He lives on a farm in Vermont with the photographer Dona Ann McAdams. Kessler and McAdams collaborated on the 2001 book ""The Woodcutter's Christmas"", with Dona providing fourteen black and white photographs to accompany Brad's story. Brad Kessler Brad Kessler (born 1963) is an American novelist. His most recent work is 2009's ""Goat Song"". Brad Kessler is the author of the critically acclaimed novel"
"1982. It has been adapted into a play and film. U.S. writer Mark Helprin's ""A Soldier of the Great War"" and French novelist Sebastien Japrisot's ""A Very Long Engagement"" both appeared in 1991. The novel ""Birdsong"" (1993) by Sebastian Faulks received much praise. Of similar acclaim is Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy; the third novel from the series ""The Ghost Road,"" received the most prestigious award in British fiction: The Booker Prize in 1995 (though the nomination implied the award was for the whole series. In 2014, during the centenary of the World War I, the Indian author Akhil Katyal published"
"Madeleine L'Engle Madeleine L'Engle Camp (; November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer of young adult fiction, including ""A Wrinkle in Time"" and its sequels: ""A Wind in the Door"", ""A Swiftly Tilting Planet"", ""Many Waters"", and ""An Acceptable Time"". Her works reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in science. Madeleine L'Engle Camp was born in New York City on 29 November 1918, and named after her great-grandmother, Madeleine Margaret L'Engle, otherwise known as Mado. Her maternal grandfather was Florida banker Bion Barnett, co-founder of Barnett Bank in Jacksonville, Florida. Her mother, a"
"Christina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is famous for writing ""Goblin Market"" and ""Remember"". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in the British Isles: ""In the Bleak Midwinter"", later set to music by Gustav Holst and by Harold Darke, and ""Love Came Down at Christmas"", also set by Harold Darke and other composers. Christina Rossetti was born in Charlotte Street (now 105 Hallam Street), London, to Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and a political exile"
"Pigs Have Wings Pigs Have Wings is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared as a serial in ""Collier's Weekly"" between 16 August and 20 September 1952. It was first published as a book in the United States on 16 October 1952 by Doubleday & Company, New York, and in the United Kingdom on 31 October 1952 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It is the seventh novel set at Blandings Castle. The absent minded Lord Emsworth finds himself once again embroiled in fierce rivalry in the pig-rearing arena with his neighbour, the obese baronet Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe. With Emsworth's"
"A Winter in Majorca A Winter in Majorca (whose original title in French is Un hiver à Majorque) is an autobiographical travel novel written by George Sand, at the time in a relationship with Frédéric Chopin. Although published in 1842, it appeared for the first time in 1841 in the ""Revue des deux Mondes"". In the novel, Sand relates the details of her trip and stay with Chopin on the island of Majorca, due to the illness of the pianist. Sand, Chopin, and Sand's two children stayed in the charterhouse of Valldemossa for a few months, from the end of"
"in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The European premiere was at the Savoy Cinema in Dublin. Sony Music Entertainment released the movie's soundtrack worldwide. Barnes returned to the West End stage in London with a starring role as World War I soldier Stephen Wraysford in ""Birdsong"", a drama based on the Sebastian Faulks novel of the same title. The play, directed by Trevor Nunn and adapted for the West End stage by writer Rachel Wagstaff opened on 28 September 2010, running through 15 January 2011. He was then cast alongside Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana in ""The Words"" (2012). In"
"Leon Rosselson Leon Rosselson (born 22 June 1934, Harrow, Middlesex) is an English songwriter and writer of children's books. After his early involvement in the folk music revival in Britain, he came to prominence, singing his own satirical songs, in the BBC's topical TV programme of the early 1960s, ""That Was The Week That Was"". He toured Britain and abroad, singing mainly his own songs and accompanying himself with acoustic guitar. In later years, he has published 17 children's books, the first of which, ""Rosa's Singing Grandfather"", was shortlisted in 1991 for the Carnegie Medal. He continues to write and"