"tried to remember William Blake's quotation about love being eternal, so that he could say it to Rachel, but was unable to. Internationally the film was not a significant commercial success, and in the US was ranked 206 in 1989. The Rachel Papers The Rachel Papers is a 1989 British film written and directed by Damian Harris, and based on the novel of the same name by Martin Amis. It stars Dexter Fletcher and Ione Skye with Jonathan Pryce, James Spader, Bill Paterson, Jared Harris, Claire Skinner, Lesley Sharp and Michael Gambon in supporting roles. Nineteen-year-old Charles (Fletcher) is a"
"Cash Peters Cashman ""Cash"" Peters (born 6 June 1956) is a British author and broadcaster who writes on travel and spiritual matters, and has published two mystery novels. He is also a handwriting analyst. Peters was born in Stockport, England. By 15, he had written material for radio and TV shows including ""The Two Ronnies"" and ""The News Huddlines"". After graduating from the University of Hull with a law degree he was employed at the High Court of Justice in London, and in his spare time worked as a reporter on Capital Radio's ""The Way It Is"" news magazine. He"
"March 2010, he criticised his debut further, stating, ""A first novel is about energy and originality, but to me now it looks so crude. I don't mean bad language – it's so clumsily put together. The sense of decorum, the slowing a sentence down, the scrupulousness I feel I have acquired, aren't there. As you get older, your craft, the knack of knowing what goes where, what goes when, is much more acute."" In 1989, the book was made into a film of the same name, starring Dexter Fletcher and Ione Skye. The Rachel Papers (novel) The Rachel Papers is"
"Rachel Anderson Rachel Anderson (born 1943) is an English journalist and author best known for her children's books. Her work often features the positive portrayal of characters with learning disabilities, and themes of social injustice and alienation. She was married for 45 years to the writer and translator David Bradby. Her mother was the writer Verily Anderson. For the novel ""Paper Faces"", published by Oxford in 1991, Anderson won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. Born in 1943, Rachel Anderson is the second of the five children born to"
"his wit and wisdom. Unfortunately, she is seeing an American visiting student named DeForest, and Charles must employ a variety of meticulously calculated schemes to steal her away. The title is an allusion to one subset of notes that Charles works on diligently throughout the novel – detailed instructions on everything from how to convince his Oxford don of his brilliance, to how to pick up and seduce girls. Instead of studying for his exams, Charles pours most of his time into these narcissistic chronicles, and after he meets Rachel, ""The Rachel Papers"" become the primary outlet for his neurotic"
"Rachel Kelly Rachel Kelly is a British author and mental health advocate. She has worked as a journalist at ""The Times"", and is the author of the books ""Black Rainbow"", ""Walking on Sunshine"", and ""The Happy Kitchen"". Rachel Kelly graduated from Oxford University, majoring in History. She then worked as a journalist for ""The Times"" newspaper in the UK. Since 2014 she has run wellbeing workshops for mental health charities MIND, as well as other organizations. Kelly now works as a mental health campaigner. She has written opinion columns for ""The Guardian"" and has served as a commentator on the"
"time and social position in its thoroughness, and exceptional in that it was based on a classical curriculum."" The identity of her mother is unknown, but she seems to have been a profound influence on her. Speght refers to her mother's death as an inspiration for her ""Mortalities Memorandum"". Speght's godmother Mary Moundeford (née Hill), wife of the eminent physician , was another influence; Speght dedicated ""Mortalities Memorandum"" to her. James Speight, Rachel's father, was an ordained doctor of divinity from Christ's college in Cambridge. He was the rector of two London churches, St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street (1592–1637) and"
"literature, terrorism, religion, Philip Larkin, science, Britishness, suicide, sex, ageing, his 2010 novel ""The Pregnant Widow"", violence, film, the short story, and America). Martin Amis Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. His best-known novels are ""Money"" (1984) and ""London Fields"" (1989). He has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir ""Experience"" and has been listed for the Booker Prize twice to date (shortlisted in 1991 for ""Time's Arrow"" and longlisted in 2003 for ""Yellow Dog""). Amis served as the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New"
"Black Money Black Money is a novel by US American mystery writer Ross Macdonald. Published in 1966, it is among the most powerful of all Ross Macdonald's novels and was his own personal choice as his best book. The plot is typically intricate: Peter Jamiesen, the jilted boyfriend of the formerly wealthy Virginia Fablon, hires sleuth Lew Archer to investigate the background of Francis Martel, a man of mysterious wealth, grandiose claims, and violent threats. Fablon and Martel quickly wed after Archer's arrival. The resulting inquiries take Archer from the homeless to the wealthy, a canvassing seen in other Macdonald"
"""Girl, 20"" (1971), ""The Riverside Villas Murder"" (1973), ""Ending Up"" (1974), ""The Alteration"" (1976), and part of ""Harold's Years"" (1977). Jane finished ""Something in Disguise"" (1969), ""Odd Girl Out"" (1972), and ""Mr. Wrong"" (1975), although she spent most of her time looking after the house. Martin wrote his first two novels, ""The Rachel Papers"" (1973) and ""Dead Babies"" (1975), in his bedroom above Kingsley's study. The first draft of ""The Rachel Papers"" was started in July 1970 and finished in September 1972; it won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974, which Kingsley had won in 1955 for ""Lucky Jim"" (1954)."
"Martin Amis Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. His best-known novels are ""Money"" (1984) and ""London Fields"" (1989). He has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir ""Experience"" and has been listed for the Booker Prize twice to date (shortlisted in 1991 for ""Time's Arrow"" and longlisted in 2003 for ""Yellow Dog""). Amis served as the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011. In 2008, ""The Times"" named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945."
"Martin Amis comes in."" ""Breaking the rules, buggering about with the reader, drawing attention to himself,"" Kingsley complained. His first novel ""The Rachel Papers"" (1973) – written at Lemmons, the family home in north London – won the Somerset Maugham Award. The most traditional of his novels, made into an unsuccessful cult film, it tells the story of a bright, egotistical teenager (which Amis acknowledges as autobiographical) and his relationship with the eponymous girlfriend in the year before going to university. He also wrote the screenplay for the film ""Saturn 3"", an experience which he was to draw on for"
"is in two parts. Money (novel) Money: A Suicide Note is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. In 2005 ""Time"" magazine included the novel in its ""100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present"". The novel is based on Amis's experience as a script writer on the feature film ""Saturn 3"", a Kirk Douglas vehicle. The novel was dramatised by the BBC in 2010. ""Money"" tells the story of, and is narrated by, John Self, a successful director of adverts who is invited to New York City by Fielding Goodney, a film producer, to shoot his first film. Self"
"Rachel Ferguson Rachel Ferguson, (1892–1957) was an English novelist, playwright and journalist. She wrote twelve novels, three memoirs, four satirical works, two biographies, and one play. Rachel Ethelreda Ferguson was born on 17 October 1892 at The Nest, Church Grove, Hampton Wick. She was the third child of Robert Norman Ronald Ferguson, a Treasury Clerk. She was educated at home and then sent to a finishing school in Florence, Italy. By the age of 16 she was a fierce campaigner for women's rights and considered herself a suffragette, ""I was as militant as authority allowed me to be. I wanted"
"Money (novel) Money: A Suicide Note is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. In 2005 ""Time"" magazine included the novel in its ""100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present"". The novel is based on Amis's experience as a script writer on the feature film ""Saturn 3"", a Kirk Douglas vehicle. The novel was dramatised by the BBC in 2010. ""Money"" tells the story of, and is narrated by, John Self, a successful director of adverts who is invited to New York City by Fielding Goodney, a film producer, to shoot his first film. Self is an archetypal hedonist"
"not wholly honest reasons. He plans to kill the girl and Girland in his mansion. Girland again meets Malik, who is a secret agent of the Soviets and who is also after the tape. The book follows Girland as he tries to rescue Gilly and the tape which could prove dangerous to a lot of people. The Whiff of Money The Whiff of Money is a 1969 thriller novel by British writer James Hadley Chase. The book features his character Mark Girland. This book follows Mark Girland's next adventure after ""Have This One on Me"". John Dorey asks Mark Girland"
"Green, and Frank Arlton. Hard Cash (novel) Hard Cash, A Matter-of-Fact Romance is an 1863 novel by Charles Reade. The novel is about the poor treatment of patients in private insane asylums, and was part of Reade's drive to reform and improve those institutions. It was originally serialised under the title ""Very Hard Cash"" in Charles Dickens' ""All the Year Round"" from 28 March to 26 December 1863, but the magazine's family readers blanched at Reade's strong attacks on asylums, so it did not perform well and actually depressed sales of the periodical. Dickens appended a note to the last"
"that John has run off with Dolly, has accepted Hugo’s proposal of marriage. When she learns of John’s heroism she realises the error of her ways and sweetness and light reign. Money for Nothing (novel) Money for Nothing is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 27 July 1928 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 28 September 1928 by Doubleday, Doran, New York. Immediately prior to publication it appeared as a serial, in ""London Calling"" magazine (UK) from 3 March to 28 July 1928 and in Liberty magazine (US) between"
"Girls"" was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of Year award. In 2004, she began to use the pen name Rachel Moore. She lived in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, where she wrote full-time. She died on Wednesday 3 August 2011, after contracting an illness on a holiday earlier that year, after being rushed to Weston General Hospital. Some of her novels were reedited under different names. ""A Reluctant Bride"" in ""A Bride's Desire"" (1994) (with Karen A. Bale, Christine Dorsey and Sonya T. Pelton) Jean Saunders Jean Saunders, née Jean Innes (8 February 1932 – 3 August 2011) was a British writer of"
"28-year-old Rachel Pearl, for example, a very intellectual and excellently educated young woman, did not mind, when she was still at university, becoming the lover of a much older journalist and getting a well-paid job through his connections. Now, eight years later, she realises that for almost a decade she has been no more than that man's whore, living in an expensive flat paid for from his expense account and providing him with a beautiful body whenever he feels the lust to have her rather than his wife or a prostitute. When, on the death of her former schoolmate and"
"The Whiff of Money The Whiff of Money is a 1969 thriller novel by British writer James Hadley Chase. The book features his character Mark Girland. This book follows Mark Girland's next adventure after ""Have This One on Me"". John Dorey asks Mark Girland to fetch a blue movie tape from Paris without telling him who the girl in the tape is. Girland, while working out his plan finds out, to his utter surprise, that the girl features in the tape is the daughter of Sherman, a man who is running for the Presidential election in the United States. His"
"honest about sensitive subjects (his troubled relationship with his philandering father, his sister's dysfunctional marriage, the awkwardness of adolescent romance), his precociousness and narcissism also blinds him to a great deal of his own faults and shortcomings. Amis's first novel received mixed critical reception. While he was praised by some critics for his ""ruthlessly brilliant comedy"", he was also taken to task for failing to sufficiently animate any of the other characters besides Charles, making the book merely ""an easy-reading, mildly funny series of bed-and-bathroom observations."" Nevertheless, in 1974 ""The Rachel Papers"" won the Somerset Maugham Award for best novel"
"1972 and ""Nights at the Circus"" 1984. Margaret Drabble (born 1939) is a novelist, biographer and critic, who published from the 1960s into the 21st century. Her older sister, A. S. Byatt (born 1936) is best known for ""Possession"" published in 1990. Martin Amis (born 1949) is one of the most prominent of contemporary British novelists. His best-known novels are ""Money"" (1984) and ""London Fields"" (1989). Pat Barker (born 1943) has won many awards for her fiction. English novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan (born 1948) is another of contemporary Britain's most highly regarded writers. His works include ""The Cement Garden"""
"""The Casual Vacancy"" (2012) and—under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith—the crime fiction novels ""The Cuckoo's Calling"" (2013), ""The Silkworm"" (2014), ""Career of Evil"" (2015), and ""Lethal White"" (2018). Rowling has lived a ""rags to riches"" life story, in which she progressed from living on state benefits to being the world's first billionaire author. She lost her billionaire status after giving away much of her earnings to charity, but remains one of the wealthiest people in the world. She is the United Kingdom's bestselling living author, with sales in excess of £238M. The 2016 ""Sunday Times Rich List"" estimated Rowling's fortune at"
"Money in the Bank (novel) Money in the Bank is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 9 January 1942 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom on 27 May 1946 by Herbert Jenkins, London. The book was published in English in Germany in August 1943, but UK publication was delayed while Wodehouse was under suspicion of collaboration during the Second World War. George, sixth viscount Uffenham, a typically impecunious and absent-minded Wodehousian aristocrat, mislays his niece's fortune in diamonds and is forced to let out his family pile, returning there"
"different tabloid newspapers as being between £1 million and £50 million, costs that would possibly have been unnecessary were it not for what former ""Daily Mirror"" editor Roy Greenslade described as tabloids ""whipping up the kind of public hysteria guaranteed to incite misguided people to take the law into their own hands"". Carr became one of four former prisoners to be given entirely new identities, along with double-child killer Mary Bell and the two child-murderers of James Bulger. At least a dozen women have been attacked and persecuted by those ""enraged by fake stories about Carr published by red-top papers"","
"graduate, Lucy Dale. ""Time's Wallet"" (1913) consists of letters between Somerville graduates who are working in the East End of London. One of them breaks off her engagement rather than ceasing to think for herself. ""Merely Players"" (1917) follows an unconventional playwright through the break-up of her marriage to a civil servant. The protagonists in both can be seen as unusually independent heroines. Gertrude Minnie Faulding Gertrude Minnie Faulding (1875 – 26 December 1961) was an English children's writer and novelist born in London. She collaborated with Lucy Hanson Dale, a writer of history textbooks, on ""two novels of romance"
"The Paper Men The Paper Men is a 1984 novel by British writer William Golding. The protagonist in the novel is Wilfred Barclay, a curmudgeonly writer who has a drinking problem, a dead marriage, and the incurable itches of middle-aged lust. Barclay is irritated by a young professor, Rick Tucker, who is determined to write Barclay's biography and is desperate to gain control of the writer's personal papers. Tucker pursues Barclay across Europe and both men sacrifice relationships, self-respect, and ultimately themselves in this lethal pursuit. The ending is both inevitable and shocking and exposes the desperation of the literary"
"Rachel Abbott Rachel Abbott (the pen name of Sheila Rodgers, born 1952) is a British author of psychological thrillers. A self-publisher, her first seven novels (and one novella) have combined to sell over three million copies, and have all been bestsellers on Amazon's Kindle store. In 2015, she was named the 14th bestselling author over the last five years on Amazon's Kindle in the UK. Abbott grew up near Manchester, England. She worked as a systems analyst, and then founded an interactive media company, developing software and websites for the education market. She sold the company for around £5 million"
"Una-Mary Parker Una-Mary Parker (born 30 March 1930) is an English journalist and novelist. Parker is the daughter of Hugh Power and Laura Nepean Gubbins. She is a cousin of the Duchess of Cornwall. She married the photographer Archie Parker on 6 October 1951. Parker is a supporter of the Conservative Party, who previously worked as a journalist for the ""Daily Mail"" and ""Evening Standard"". She also spent ten years as social editor of the British magazine, ""The Tatler"". Parker's first novel, ""Riches"", appeared in October 1987 and has since become an international bestseller. Her other novels include ""Scandals"", ""Temptations"","
"Debits and Credits (book) Debits and Credits is a collection of fourteen stories, nineteen poems, and two scenes from a play by Rudyard Kipling, a British writer who wrote extensively about British colonialism in India and Burma. In 1907, he became the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The collection was first published in 1926 and includes bitter and bleak stories about subjects such as adultery, war, death, disease, and the passage of time as a harbinger of sorrow. Most of the stories in this collection are framed by poems. Four of the poems that accompany the"
"lower middle classes. A ""Saturday Review"" notice acerbically described the heroine as ""a young woman whose unhappiness is caused by her lover not setting up a brewery fast enough"". Rachel Ray (novel) Rachel Ray is an 1863 novel by Anthony Trollope. It recounts the story of a young woman who is forced to give up her fiancé because of baseless suspicions directed toward him by the members of her community, including her sister and the pastors of the two churches attended by her sister and mother. The novel was originally commissioned for ""Good Words"", a popular magazine directed at pious"
"Elizabeth Baker Elizabeth Baker (20 August 1876 - March 1962) was an English playwright. She earned her living primarily as a typist, and was a spinster until the age of 39 when she married James Allaway, a widower, in June 1915. By then, she had already written several plays. Baker lived in the west London suburb of Bedford Park, and the constrained lives of the lower middle-class clerical classes was the subject of her first performed play ""Chains"". She also wrote ""The Price of Thomas Cook"", ""Miss Tassey"" (1910) and ""Miss Robinson"" (1918). Like other members of the lower middle"