"and that's a good word."" The novel won the Man Booker Prize in 2010 and was the first comic novel to win the prize since Kingsley Amis's ""The Old Devils"" in 1986. Jacobson was the oldest winner since William Golding who won the prize in 1980, aged 69, for ""Rites of Passage"". In his acceptance speech, Jacobson claimed he was going to spend his £50,000 prize money on a handbag for his wife, asking, ""Have you seen the price of handbags?"" It was shortlisted for the JQ Wingate Prize (2011). The Finkler Question The Finkler Question is a 2010 novel"
"play ""The Devils"" (1960). Ken Russell directed a feature film adaptation, ""The Devils"" (1971), starring Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed. Krzysztof Penderecki wrote an opera, ""The Devils of Loudun"" (""Die Teufel von Loudun""), in 1969. The Devils of Loudun The Devils of Loudun is a 1952 non-fiction novel by Aldous Huxley. It is a historical narrative of supposed demonic possession, religious fanaticism, sexual repression, and mass hysteria that occurred in 17th-century France surrounding unexplained events that took place in the small town of Loudun. It centers on Roman Catholic priest Urbain Grandier and an entire convent of Ursuline nuns, who"
"Devil's Cub Devil's Cub is a Georgian romance novel written by Georgette Heyer. Set in 1780, it is the sequel to ""These Old Shades"" (1926). The book was published in 1932, and has not been out of print since. It is one of Heyer's most popular novels. The son of the Duke and Duchess of Avon, the Marquis of Vidal is known as Devil's Cub not only for the excesses of his father but for his own wild habits. As he is paying court to a girl of the ""bourgeoisie"", Sophia Challoner, he also participates in a rather impromptu duel,"
"Old Masters (novel) Old Masters (subtitled ""A Comedy"") is a novel by the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, first published in 1985. It tells of the life and opinions of Reger, a 'musical philosopher', through the voice of his acquaintance Atzbacher, a 'private academic'. The book is set in Vienna on one day around the year of its publication, 1985. (p. 193) Reger is an 82-year-old music critic who writes pieces for ""The Times"". For over thirty years he has sat on the same bench in front of Tintoretto's ""White-bearded Man"" in the Bordone Room of the Kunsthistorisches Museum for four"
"literary style and tone changed significantly after 1970, with the possible exception of ""The Old Devils"", a Booker Prize winner. Several critics accused him of being old fashioned and misogynistic. His ""Stanley and the Women"", an exploration of social sanity, could be said to instance these traits. Others said that his output lacked the humanity, wit and compassion of earlier efforts. This period also saw Amis the anthologist, a role in which his wide knowledge of all kinds of English poetry was on display. ""The New Oxford Book of Light Verse"" (1978), which he edited, was a revision of the"
"The Devils (film) The Devils is a 1971 British historical drama horror film directed by Ken Russell and starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave. Russell's screenplay is based partly on the 1952 book ""The Devils of Loudun"" by Aldous Huxley, and partly on the 1960 play ""The Devils"" by John Whiting, also based on Huxley's book. The film is a dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest executed for witchcraft following the supposed possessions in Loudun, France. Reed plays Grandier in the film and Vanessa Redgrave plays a hunchbacked sexually repressed"
"which was then adapted into the controversial 1971 Ken Russell film ""The Devils"", which starred Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed. There is also an opera based on the play, ""Die Teufel von Loudun"", by Krzysztof Penderecki, available on DVD. The book, though lesser known than Huxley's other novels (such as ""Brave New World""), is widely considered one of his best works. Urbain Grandier was a priest burned at the stake at Loudun, France on 18 August 1634. He was accused of seducing an entire convent of Ursuline nuns and of being in league with the devil. Grandier was probably sexually"
"true purpose of his arranging to meet Atzbacher: to invite him to a performance of ""The Broken Jug"" that evening, despite his own hatred for drama. Atzbacher accepts, reporting that ""the performance was terrible"". Old Masters (novel) Old Masters (subtitled ""A Comedy"") is a novel by the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, first published in 1985. It tells of the life and opinions of Reger, a 'musical philosopher', through the voice of his acquaintance Atzbacher, a 'private academic'. The book is set in Vienna on one day around the year of its publication, 1985. (p. 193) Reger is an 82-year-old music"
"the Old Globe of San Diego’s Best New Plays Festival, a national competition. His second full-length play, “Doesn’t The Sky Look Green Today?” (1985), a play about a doomed ménage à trois, was a semi-finalist in the FDG/CBS new plays competition. He received story credit for a horror film, ""Night of the Demons 2"" – a cult classic series created by screenwriter Joe Augustyn, with whom he also collaborated on another script, ""Beautiful Dreamer"". James Penzi James Penzi (born July 17, 1952) is an American poet and playwright. His poems have been published in numerous small press periodicals and literary"
"began as early as 1928, though her most famous work, ""Wide Sargasso Sea"", was not published until 1966. South Africa's Alan Paton's famous ""Cry, the Beloved Country"" dates from 1948. Salman Rushdie is among a number of post Second World War writers from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" 1981, which was awarded both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Booker prize, and was named Booker of Bookers in 1993. His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" 1989, was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. V. S. Naipaul"
"months later. In September 2018, FilmStruck began streaming the same US cut. The Devils (film) The Devils is a 1971 British historical drama horror film directed by Ken Russell and starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave. Russell's screenplay is based partly on the 1952 book ""The Devils of Loudun"" by Aldous Huxley, and partly on the 1960 play ""The Devils"" by John Whiting, also based on Huxley's book. The film is a dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest executed for witchcraft following the supposed possessions in Loudun, France. Reed plays"
"The Forgotten Beasts of Eld The Forgotten Beasts of Eld is a fantasy novel by American writer Patricia A. McKillip, and illustrators Peter Schaumann in 1974, and Alicia Austin in 1981, first published by Atheneum Publishers in 1974, and by Magic Carpet Books in 1996. It is the winner of the 1975 World Fantasy Award. The book centers on the fictional character Sybel, a woman previously cut off from the rest of the fictional world of Eldwold, as she learns to live and love in the world outside of the one she once knew. Sixteen-year-old Sybel lives alone on a"
"2018 he lives in Harlem. Christopher Davis (writer) Christopher Davis (born 1950) is an American writer. He is best known for his HIV/AIDS-themed novels ""Valley of the Shadow"" (1988), which was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 1st Lambda Literary Awards in 1989, and ""Philadelphia"" (1994), a novelization of the 1993 drama film ""Philadelphia"". Davis also published the novel ""Joseph and the Old Man"" (1986), and the short story collection ""The Boys in the Bars"" (1989). Davis released little biographical information about himself to the media, and did not publish any further work"
"The Devils (play) The Devils is a play, commissioned by Sir Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company and written by British dramatist John Whiting, based on Aldous Huxley's book, ""The Devils of Loudun"". ""The Devils"" had its first performance at London's Aldwych Theatre in February, 1961, with Dorothy Tutin portraying the deformed and hysterical Sister Jeanne of the Angels, and Richard Johnson as the existential hero, Father Urbain Grandier. Diana Rigg appeared in the supporting role of Philippe and Max Adrian played the zealot exorcist, Father Pierre Barre (Max Adrian himself would go on to appear in the film"
"eldest of all vampires, who might be either the killer himself, or the key to the killer's undoing. What they discover is a threat to the living as well as the undead. Those Who Hunt the Night Those Who Hunt the Night (also published under the title Immortal blood) is a 1988 horror/mystery novel by Barbara Hambly. It won the Locus Award winner for Best Horror Novel in 1989. The 20th century is just under way, and somebody is killing the vampires of London. Against the wishes of his fellow undead, Simon Ysidro, oldest of the London vampires, seeks the"
"Frederick Buechner Carl Frederick Buechner ( ; born July 11, 1926) is an American writer, novelist, poet, autobiographer, essayist, preacher, and theologian. He is an ordained Presbyterian minister and the author of more than thirty published books. His work encompasses different genres, including fiction, autobiography, essays and sermons, and his career has spanned six decades. Buechner's books have been translated into many languages for publication around the world. He is best known for his novels, including ""A Long Day's Dying"", ""The Book of Bebb"", ""Godric"" (a finalist for the 1981 Pulitzer Prize), and ""Brendan"", his memoirs, including ""Telling Secrets"" and"
"Christopher Davis (writer) Christopher Davis (born 1950) is an American writer. He is best known for his HIV/AIDS-themed novels ""Valley of the Shadow"" (1988), which was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 1st Lambda Literary Awards in 1989, and ""Philadelphia"" (1994), a novelization of the 1993 drama film ""Philadelphia"". Davis also published the novel ""Joseph and the Old Man"" (1986), and the short story collection ""The Boys in the Bars"" (1989). Davis released little biographical information about himself to the media, and did not publish any further work after ""Philadelphia"". As of January"
"them out"". Garden of Shadows Garden of Shadows is a novel by V. C. Andrews and was first published in 1987. V. C. Andrews died in 1986, and her estate commissioned ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman to continue writing novels under her name developed from plot outlines originally written by Andrews. There is some dispute over whether this particular novel was written in part by Andrews before she died, or whether it was written entirely by Neiderman. This is the fifth novel of the Dollanganger series. The novel explains the origin of Olivia Winfield (the grandmother from ""Flowers in the Attic"") and"
"Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, ""Midnight's Children"" (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be ""the best novel of all winners"" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations. His fourth novel, ""The Satanic Verses"" (1988), was the subject of a major"
"and Angela Carter's ""The Passion of New Eve"". Joining Jonathan Cape in 1979, she published two Man Booker Prize winners, Salman Rushdie’s ""Midnight's Children"" and Anita Brookner's ""Hotel du Lac"". She was also Julian Barnes' editor for his first four novels, including ""Flaubert's Parrot"". In 1986 she became a founder director of Bloomsbury Publishing, where her list included Booker winners Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje and Nobel literature laureate Nadine Gordimer. In 1997 she was named Editor of the Year at the British Book Awards. She was a founder of the Groucho Club and the Orange Prize for Fiction. In"
"starring Fay Compton. It was made into a TV series by the BBC in 1988 as ""Sophia and Constance"". The Old Wives' Tale The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into old age. It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly 1840 to 1905, and is set in Burslem and Paris. It is generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works. Bennett was initially inspired"
"Garden of Shadows Garden of Shadows is a novel by V. C. Andrews and was first published in 1987. V. C. Andrews died in 1986, and her estate commissioned ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman to continue writing novels under her name developed from plot outlines originally written by Andrews. There is some dispute over whether this particular novel was written in part by Andrews before she died, or whether it was written entirely by Neiderman. This is the fifth novel of the Dollanganger series. The novel explains the origin of Olivia Winfield (the grandmother from ""Flowers in the Attic"") and the events"
"Those Who Hunt the Night Those Who Hunt the Night (also published under the title Immortal blood) is a 1988 horror/mystery novel by Barbara Hambly. It won the Locus Award winner for Best Horror Novel in 1989. The 20th century is just under way, and somebody is killing the vampires of London. Against the wishes of his fellow undead, Simon Ysidro, oldest of the London vampires, seeks the assistance of Oxford professor James Asher, former spy for the British government. Ysidro gains Asher's cooperation by threatening the life of his beautiful young wife, Lydia. Unbeknownst to Ysidro, Asher enlists the"
"Dalloway"" (1925), ""To the Lighthouse"" (1927), and ""The Waves"" (1931). Her essay collection ""A Room of One's Own"" (1929) contains her famous dictum; ""A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction"". But while modernism was to become an important literary movement in the early decades of the new century, there were also many fine novelists who were not modernists. This include E.M. Forster ((1879–1970), John Galsworthy ((1867–1933) (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932), whose novels include ""The Forsyte Saga"", Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of ""The Old Wives' Tale"", and H. G. Wells"
"Old Bugs ""Old Bugs"" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, probably written shortly before July 1919. It was first published in the Arkham House book ""The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces"" (1959). The piece was written after Lovecraft's friend Alfred Galpin's suggestion that he wanted to try alcohol before Prohibition went into effect. In response, Lovecraft, a teetotaler, wrote a tale of an old derelict known as Old Bugs, who turns out to be Galpin himself, brought low by ""evil habits, dating from a first drink taken years before in woodland seclusion."" At the"
"1945) is another among a number of post Second World War writers from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" 1981, which was awarded both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Booker prize, and named Booker of Bookers in 1993. His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" (1989), was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. V. S. Naipaul (born 1932), born in Trinidad, was another immigrant, who wrote among other things ""A House for Mr Biswas"" (1961) and ""A Bend in the River"" (1979). Naipaul won the Nobel Prize"
"group of young people who, 10 years earlier, spent the broiling Summer of 1976 in a self-indulgently irresponsible idyll at Wyvis Hall, unexpectedly inherited by one of their number. Slowly the facts emerge and the past catches up with them. But which woman is dead? And whose child? The BBC adapted the novel for Radio 4 in 1991, and in three episodes for television in 1992. The series starred Jeremy Northam and Douglas Hodge. 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"
"earned the Children's Critic Award in 1980 for ""The Starcleaner Reunion"". He was also the American nominee for the Golden Apple Award (Prague) in 1983 for ""Caretakers of Wonder"". Cooper Edens Cooper Edens is an author and illustrator of more than 25 children's books..[1] He's best known for ""If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow"" and ""Add One More Star to the Night"". These works reflect his ""horizontal"" approach to storytelling. that asks the reader to solve a non-linear string of ""problems"" (""If you're afraid of the dark ..."") rather than follow a hero or heroine through"
"novels take modern day issues and put a slightly alien twist on them. This book was written by Alan Dean Foster, and was released in 1989. It is an adaptation of the movie. This book was written by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, and was released in 1993. It is a prequel to both the movie and television series, in the months leading up to the arrival of the Tenctonese on Earth. Matthew Sikes, a rookie detective, is on his first murder investigation when he stumbles onto a deadly conspiracy that threatens his whole world. Light-years away, a Tenctonese slave named"
"the Daleks"" (1974), and Ranquin in ""The Power of Kroll"" (1979). Margaret John later played Grandma Connolly in ""The Idiot's Lantern"" (2006). A novelisation of this serial, written by the series scriptwriter Victor Pemberton, was published by Target Books in May 1986. The cover advertised the volume as a special ""bumper"" edition, referring to its increased length in comparison to other Target novelisations and as explanation of the consequently higher retail price. The visual material that has remained (very short clips from episodes 1, 2, 4 and 5, behind-the-scenes 8mm colour film, and raw film trims from the recording of"
"York Times"" was more positive, writing the film boats a ""first-rate English cast,"" and adding that ""Mr. Harwood's screenplay, which retains a lot of the original Thomas dialogue, is much more fun to see than the Thomas screenplay is to read."" The Doctor and the Devils The Doctor and The Devils is a 1985 British gothic horror film directed by Freddie Francis, and produced by Mel Brooks, through his production company Brooksfilms. It is based upon the true story of Burke and Hare, who in 1828 Edinburgh, Scotland, murdered at least 16 people and sold their bodies for anatomical dissection."
"humorous adventure for children, published in 1979 and later reissued as ""Enter Frederick K Bower"". In 1981 his second novel, ""Misha, the Magician and the Mysterious Amulet"" was published and he moved to Paris to write his third book. In 1983 the first of the Pentagram series, ""The Devil's Door-Bell"", was released. This story saw Martin Hopkins battling an ancient evil that threatened the whole world. Only three of four remaining stories in the series were ever written: ""The Night of the Scorpion"" (1984), ""The Silver Citadel"" (1986) and ""Day of the Dragon"" (1986). In 1985, he released ""Myths and"
"The Old Men at the Zoo The Old Men at the Zoo is a novel written by Angus Wilson, first published in 1961 by Secker and Warburg and by Penguin books in 1964. It was adapted, with many changes—nuclear bombing of London, not present in the novel, is added—into a 1983 BBC Television serial by the scriptwriter Troy Kennedy Martin. The book deals with events before a nuclear attack on London during a (presumably) limited nuclear war, which results in the imposition of a later post-apocalyptic pan-European dystopian dictatorship, until rescue arrives for the prisoners at the zoo, transformed into"